Richard paul merage biography

American billionaire businessman (born )

Paul Merage (born ) is an American billionaire businessman who co-founded Chef America Inc., the company that popularized the microwavable frozen snack Hot Pockets.

In , his net worth was estimated at $ billion.^[1]

Biography

Merage was born in Iran in to a Jewish family,^[2] the son of Katherine and Andre Merage.^[3] He has four siblings: Louise, Camron, David, and Lin.^[3][4] His father ran an import/export business in France before he was forced to flee back to Iran prior to World War II.^[4] He attended Alborz High School in Tehran.^{[citation needed]}

In , at the age of 17, he immigrated to the United States to attend the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned a B.A.

in economics and an M.B.A.^[2]

After college, he worked for nine years in a succession of increasing responsibilities in product management^[5] at General