About The CEO

ABOUT David Michaux, CEO

David Michaux is CEO and Founder of SCANIT Middle East, the region’s most reputable auditor of IT security.

David’s responsibilities cover the strategic direction of the Dubai Internet City-based firm, its business expansion and regional alliances. He also manages day-to-day operations, oversees financial control, plus directs the firm’s critical research and development activities.

Michaux leapt into his business career by joining Belgium’s state telecommunications provider, Belgacom, as junior security engineer, where he was quickly promoted to the head of a new, internal team called Scanit.

Created in 1999 by former members of the Protection and Prevention department at Belgacom, Scanit’s initial task was to conduct technical audits on Belgacom’s complex telecommunications and IT infrastructure prior to privatization of the country’s telecommunications market.

Within a year, as CEO David helped spin-off Scanit from Belgacom and had so impressed the company’s former parent with the scope and quality of Scanit’s work that Belgacom took a 49 percent stake in the new firm.

By 2002, Michaux had taken a keen interest in the fast-growth Middle East market, with Dubai at its commercial hub. Michaux developed a series of strategic partnerships and alliances across the region that helped bolster the company’s security services, focusing the key markets of Telecom, Aviation and Banking sectors. To date these alliances include a milestone partnership with Symantec, the UAE’s telecommunication company Etisalat (ECompany) and the Omani telecommunications provider, Omantel. These alliances together with the strong brand that has been built have all contributed to making Scanit the number 1 security services company in the region.

David holds a European Business Law degree from Cambridge and Berlin Universities and an Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science degree from the University of Birmingham.