Farid Homsi
Member of the board
Farid is the General Manager & Vice Chairman of IMPEX Trading Company (Lebanon) S.A.L a leading family automotive dealership established in 1957.
His responsibilities include strategic planning along with the supervision and coordination of work among all departments to always ensure customer satisfaction and business sustainability of the dealership. With his family and team, Farid continuously strives to ensure and preserve a long tradition of integrity, transparency, trust and care with their business partners, customers and community. Farid holds a BA in Business Management from the Lebanese American University as well as automotive management degrees and certificates from the General Motors Learning Center and Training Academy in Detroit. IMPEX received multiple times the General Motors “Grand Master” Excellence dealer award for sales, parts, service and CRM in recognition of the efforts to ensure customers enjoy the best ownership experience. With his ongoing passion towards the business and belief in Lebanon, he decided in 2018 to expand their service facility and headquarters reflecting the family’s mission to relentlessly enhance the customer experience & excitement and to remain very focused on the after sales side of the business with innovating solutions, latest technologies and “know- how” to keep a high standard.
Many legal and tax abiding sectors are facing unprecedented challenges caused by the non-authorized importers (parallel economy) who evade taxes and don’t even meet any consumers’ protection standard. The government should implement reforms and modernize the customs system through e-governance backed by Block chain technology to improve compliance, safe and credible trade facilitation and fraud detection.
The mission of the RDCL is to connect, advocate, unite, mediate, bridge, internationalize and innovate the Lebanese private sector and hence become a role model in implementing sound governance.