<Tr> <Th> Occupation </Th> <Td> Entrepreneur, business executive, hotelier, philanthropist </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Spouse (s) </Th> <Td> Adele Alagem </Td> </Tr> <P> Binyamin "Beny" Alagem (Hebrew: בנימין אלג'ם ‎) (born 1953 in Israel) is an Israeli American entrepreneur, business executive, hotelier and philanthropist . He is the founder and former Chief Executive of Packard Bell Computers . He is the owner of the Beverly Hilton Hotel and the Beverly Hills Waldorf Astoria in Beverly Hills, California . </P> <P> Beny Alagem was born in Israel . He was a tank driver . Alagem studied at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona where he met fellow Israeli immigrants Jason Barzilay and Alex Sandel . In 1983, Alagem would partner up with Sandel and Barzilay to start Cal - Abco, a wholesaler of computer parts . In 1986, all three then invested into creating Packard Bell . As of 1995, Cal - Abco was still intact and was listed in the Packard Bell prospectus as a supplier of parts to Packard Bell with a shared credit line between the two companies . </P>

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