Paul Merage
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Paul Merage is an Iranian-American and one of the inventors of Hot Pockets microwaveable snacks. He received a bachelors and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He and his brother David Merage founded Chef America which they sold to the Nestlé in 2002 for $2.6 billion.
In 2005, Paul Merage donated $30 million to the School of Business at UC Irvine, which was renamed the Paul Merage School of Business in his honor. Merage also donated to the Merage Jewish Community Center of Orange County, California.