# Maen Mahfoud

> Maen Mahfoud is the founder and CEO of Replate, a technology-driven food rescue organization he started in 2016 while studying molecular biology at UC Berkeley. Raised in Syria, where his mother sent him out on his bike to deliver the family's surplus lunch to neighbors in need, he came to California to study medicine and instead built a logistics-and-software platform that dispatches drivers to collect leftover food from businesses and route it to nonprofits. Replate has recovered millions of pounds of surplus food, served hundreds of community organizations, and counts Netflix, Walmart, Amazon, Chipotle, and Slack among its corporate donors. He is a 2023 James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award recipient and a DRK entrepreneur.

- **Role:** Founder & CEO at Replate
- **Organizations:** Replate
- **From:** Syria
- **Nationality:** Syrian-American
- **Education:** Molecular Biology, UC Berkeley, Master's in Public Health, Imperial College London, Human-Computer Interaction for User Experience Design (Certificate), MIT, Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management (Executive Program), Harvard Business School
- **Known for:** Founded and scaled Replate from a one-man operation to an international food rescue platform, 2023 James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award recipient, DRK (Draper Richards Kaplan) entrepreneur

## Career timeline

- **2016** — Founded Replate while a student at UC Berkeley after witnessing Bay Area food insecurity alongside business food waste
- **2020** — Replate recognized in California Climate Investments food rescue programs; raised seed funding
- **2023** — Named a recipient of the James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award

## Achievements

- Founded and scaled Replate from a one-man operation to an international food rescue platform
- 2023 James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award recipient
- DRK (Draper Richards Kaplan) entrepreneur
- Stanford Graduate School of Business recognized rising social entrepreneur
- Recovered millions of pounds of surplus food and delivered millions of meals
- Built a corporate donor base including Netflix, Walmart, Amazon, Chipotle, Slack, DoorDash, and Snapchat
- Diverted thousands of metric tons of CO2-equivalent emissions and conserved hundreds of millions of gallons of water

## Latest updates

- **2023-02** — Honored with the James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award for using technology to fight food waste, climate change, and food insecurity.

## Links

- Website: https://replate.org
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/maenmahfoud
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/replateyourmeal
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_GTmJnsj1g
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/replateyourmeal

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Last updated: 2026-06-22