David Massey

CEO Abu Dhabi Ship Building

David Massey is CEO of ADSB, an EDGE entity that specialises in the building, maintenance, repair, refitting, and conversion of naval and commercial vessels. In this role, he is responsible for managing the overall operations of the company, which deploys the latest technologies to extend ship lifetimes and to lower overall lifecycle costs.

Prior to joining ADSB, Massey was Consultant on financial and strategy issues at Velius, a strategic consultancy company that provides programme management, decision-making, and system integration support for complex multi-disciplinary projects in the military, national security, and critical infrastructure protection domains for EDGE.

Previously he served as Consultant for Eden Corporate Finance, which advised smaller companies involved in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and initial public offering (IPO) transactions on short-term funding and corporate strategy, corporate finance, and turnaround solutions.

He was also a consultant to Falanx Group Limited, a cybersecurity company that specialises in protecting, defending, and informing businesses in the face of growing political and cyber risks.

In earlier roles, he was Managing Editor of the international financial news service AFX News, where he oversaw 120 journalists in 22 bureaux worldwide, and worked in financial markets as analyst, fund manager and corporate financier.

David Massey holds a bachelor’s degree in law from Oxford University in the UK

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