Elie Skaf

Co-Founder & CEO of Right Farm

Hosted by

Namita Thakkar

About Elie Skaf

Established in July 2021, Elie is co-founder and CEO of Right Farm, an e-commerce business-to-business fresh produce supply chain company that is optimizing the value chain to create efficiencies for businesses. They empower farms, restaurants and other stakeholders across the value chain to deliver what is needed in a smart and sustainable way. Prior to opening Right Farm, Elie worked on building an e-commerce venture called Loop Contacts, where he is now a Board Member. He also headed business development and partnerships at Surkus and Careem (Uber) in MENAPT. His previous roles include demand planning and pricing at AstraZeneca and management consulting at PWC. Elie holds an MBA from IESE Business School and a BBA from the American University of Beirut.

About this Episode

In this episode, Elie talks about Right Farm, an e-grocery platform that focuses on sustainability. He also shares his journey as an entrepreneur and the challenges he faced during the initial stages of setting up his business.

“It’s very difficult to really make people believe in your vision, right especially when you’re starting out with nothing really to show for it except words and a few papers.“
Elie Skaf

“I feel very fortunate that we have a team like we do, it makes everything else so much easier.”

– Elie Skaf

Show highlights

“To make sure that any customer we have, any demand that right farm wants to procure is procured from a farm be it a local one, original one or a global one.”
Elie Skaf

“Focus on more on sustainable business models that makes sense economically and that really add value to your network be it on the suppliers’ side or on the customers’ side.”
Elie Skaf