The story began 10 years ago for NUMERYX, but it began much longer ago for the founder and current CEO, Dr. Mondher AYADI.
1) Who is the founder of Numeryx?
Mondher AYADI, Doctor in energy conversion, began his professional career in the United Kingdom in the world of automotive engineering.
A Project Manager for more than 3 years, he was responsible for a team of engineers working on the development of engines and vehicles for major brands such as Ford, Saab, Renault and PSA – Peugeot Citroën.
After that, our CEO was Business and Operations Manager at ALTRAN for more than 6 years and worked on the group’s business development in the engineering field (mainly automotive and energy).
Between R&D and innovation projects, Mondher managed many projects, with about twenty people under his direction, not counting project managers or experienced engineers, to build and lead an internal innovation project.
He built commercial and strategic ties with major industrial groups such as ArcelorMittal, AnvisGroup, Areva, Bouygues Telecom, PSA Peugeot Citroën, Renault, Faurecia, Valeo, and Johnson Control, to name but a few.
Subsequently, and for nearly 2 years, Mondher worked at Siemens in engineering and innovation for companies in the automotive, aerospace and other advanced manufacturing sectors.
2) What motivated the creation of Numeryx
On March 26, 2012, in Montigny le Bretonneux (Yvelines):
Madly in love with innovation, and not seeing himself remaining a mere employee throughout his professional career, it was quite natural that Mondher AYADI turned to entrepreneurship. Drawing on his previous experience, his commercial and strategic skills, his network, and the industrial environment he had worked in for more than 10 years, he quickly made the connection to create and found NUMERYX.
3) What did Numeryx look like at the beginning?
At its creation, NUMERYX was therefore a services company based on a Third-Party Application Maintenance (TPAM) model oriented towards industrial sectors, operating in the Île-de-France region. Its first premises in Montigny-le-Bretonneux were no more than 20 m². Mondher quickly adopted a participative management style, staying very close to his employees and always being available to everyone.
A management style that has never left him since, and which today makes Numeryx a company strongly focused on people, their career plans, and their daily professional fulfillment.
4) What were Numeryx’s first successes?
By getting back in touch with former clients met throughout his first professional life, Mondher quickly managed to reconnect with the automotive industry and IT engineering sectors.
During the 2012/2013 fiscal year, NUMERYX signed a framework agreement with Atos. During this period, NUMERYX filed a patent on “a new filtering technique” intended for Cybersecurity.
In 2014, business was going better and better, and NUMERYX extended its know-how to new areas such as software development, application development, as well as Testing and Validation.
That same year, NUMERYX joined the Systematic competitiveness cluster, joined the Syntec Cinov convention, and took part in the international telecoms trade show, the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
The company hired, and moved a first time to 66 m² premises, then a second time in 2016 to a 230 m² space, still in Montigny-le-Bretonneux.
In 2015, between two moves, NUMERYX made Research & Development as well as Innovation a major strategic axis of development.
In 2017, at the mid-point of its existence, NUMERYX started research work with Inria – the French National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology
During the 2017/2018 fiscal year, NUMERYX achieved +100% growth.
In 2018, Mondher decided to set up a profit-sharing scheme at NUMERYX, so that the company would belong to all employees, with the aim of making the company last.
From this year, the company operates in new areas of activity such as Computer Networks, Cloud and Infrastructure, Embedded Development and Digital Transformation
5) Numeryx begins its international activity and changes scale
In 2019, NUMERYX opened its subsidiary NUMERYX Tunisie in Tunis, making it both its nearshore service center and its Delivery Center, its R&D center called today “Numeryx Lab”, which will considerably help NUMERYX develop its know-how in Cybersecurity.
The NUMERYX Lab will also become an incubator of innovative projects, which will lead to new offerings such as the DevOps, DevSecOps and AI offering.
Very quickly, the Tunisian subsidiary won work for renowned clients such as Deloitte, PWC, and also government entities including several Tunisian ministries.
The subsidiary based in Tunis then became a gateway to the MEA region (Africa and Middle East) to further develop NUMERYX’s activities abroad.
That same year, NUMERYX launched CSR actions to support education in Tunisia, and underprivileged children, to equip them to attend primary school and receive an education.
6) Numeryx University opens its doors
The same year, in 2019, NUMERYX created its training organization. The first purpose of this creation was to be able to train all NUMERYX employees in France and Tunisia so that they gain new skills, in order to advance their career plans and to enrich as much as possible their employee experience and professional background.
In 2021, NUMERYX continued its expansion on French soil by opening a new office in Le Havre. It very quickly took its place in a strong industrial region, where industrial Cybersecurity is in demand, as is its application to the Internet of Things (IoT).
It is thus in Normandy that NUMERYX joined the Pôle TES, a competitiveness cluster oriented towards Cybersecurity and Digital innovation.
It is also with ENSICAEN – the public engineering school and research center of Caen that NUMERYX is recruiting for a CIFRE thesis to carry out research related to Cybersecurity applied to IoT.
In 2022, NUMERYX opened its second office on French soil in Lyon, to conquer the Rhône-Alpes region and get closer to the PACA region.
At the beginning of this year, NUMERYX University was rewarded and has 140 courses in its catalog, available internally and externally, and Qualiopi certified.
7) Numeryx celebrates its 10th anniversary, and what next?
Of course, NUMERYX does not stop there and has an ambitious growth plan through 2026.
This starts first with its move during the summer of 2022 to its future premises, whose surface area will be nearly three times larger than that of its current premises, close to 600 m², i.e. an area 30 times larger than that of its very first office.
Then, NUMERYX plans to reach a milestone of 500 employees in 2026, compared to about 200 today.
The expansion of its activities on African soil is under way, and the first work is due to start in three new countries during the year.
The conquest of France is also on the program with the opening of at least two new offices in two major metropolises.
The strengthening of activities in Cybersecurity, R&D&I, digital transformation and training has shown encouraging signs during the first quarter of 2022.
We therefore invite you right here on our website to follow our evolution, and on our social networks to get the sound and images too!
