Dagmar Dolby & family

Net worth over time

Biography

• Dagmar Dolby owns about 36% 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.
• Since 2015, she has committed over $160 million to the University of Cambridge, where Ray Dolby earned a Ph.D. in physics.
• In September 2018, Dolby donated $20 million to UC San Francisco to establish the Dolby Family Center for Mood Disorders.
• She has also supported the Academy Foundation to fund the construction of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles.
• 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.
• The Smithsonian National Museum of American History's Ray and Dagmar Dolby Hall of Culture features the ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz.

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