Food delivery, ecommerce: Tomaso Rodriguez CEO, Talabat Transforming the food ordering business in the Middle East, Talabat initially launched in Kuwait in 2004 and has become the MENA region’s largest food delivery service. In September 2019, Tomaso Rodriguez, a startup enthusiast, successful entrepreneur, and venture capitalist was appointed as the CEO. He boasts a global track record in the management of online service delivery platforms, and driving operations, and has helped steer Talabat to evolve into a premier online food ordering company. Previously, Rodriguez headed Grab’s food division, a Singapore-based leading super app. Here, he expanded the food delivery business from one city to over 200 cities in only 18 months. Before this, he was the general manager of a global car-hailing app in Italy and Greece as well as the previous head of UberEATS’ regional operations – APAC. He is also a board member of several companies including Binghatti, CarSwitch Arabia, and Facily (Brazil). Initiating his career as an investor with 360 capital partners, a European fund with $500 million under its management, Rodriguez later went on to launch Agency Management in Italy. You might also like Sunil John Dr. Thumbay Moideen Vidya Chhabria Mohan Valrani K. Rajaram Dr. Adnan Chilwan Sanjiv Kakkar Ram Kumar Thota Raghu Malhotra Sunil Kaushal Atif Rahman Amit Jain Rishi Kapoor Vasu Shroff Anil Pillai Bal Krishen Rohit and Sharad Bachani Raju Ramesh and Sunil Paul Ayesha Depala John Paul Joy Alukkas Geet Bhalla and Digvijay Pratap Snehal and Sunita Hadani Nisha Jagtiani Kunal Kapoor Dino Varkey Ashish Panjabi Joy Alukkas Yogesh Mehta Yusuff Ali M.A. Ravi Pillai Micky Jagtiani Sunny Varkey Sunil Vaswani Shamsheer Vayalil Firoz Merchant Rajen Kilachand Azad Moopen Tony Jashanmal Paras Shahdadpuri Dr. Zulekha Daud Adeeb Ahamed Dhananjay Datar Rizwan Sajan PNC Menon Sima Ved Shaji Ul Mulk Ramesh Prabhakar L.T. Pagarani Ram Buxani Surender Kandhari Sohan Roy Shyam Bhatia