Dagmar Dolby
San Francisco, California
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Heidelberg University
United States
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Dolby Laboratories
$4,200,000,000
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#478 Billionaires 2019
#153 Forbes 400 2018
Dagmar Dolby owns about 38% of publicly-traded audio technology firm Dolby Laboratories, which her husband Ray Dolby (d. 2013) founded in 1965. The company pioneered surround sound technologies used in thousands of films and products, and most recently, in video games and mobile devices.Her two sons share voting power over some assets. David is a board member at Dolby Labs; his brother, Tom, is a novelist and filmmaker.In 2015, she pledged nearly $53 million to expand the campus of the University of Cambridge, where Ray Dolby earned a Ph.D. in physics.In late 2015, she donated $20 million to the University of California, San Francisco, for research on mood disorders.
Dagmar Dolby graduated from Heidelberg University in her native Germany. She met Ray in 1962 while studying in a summer language program in the U.K.In 2014, the family founded Dolby Family Ventures, which invests in startups with potential to solve social problems; David is managing director of the fund.
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