Wadih Haddad is the founder and CEO of Dubai-based self-storage company The Box. The company,
which he founded in 2007 starting with a few boxes from home, is now the Middle East’s largest self-
storage firm with regional operations in multiple cities. The Box has been recognized by the Dubai
Economic Department as one of the top performing SME’s in the Emirate and listed in position 51 among
the Dubai SME100 list. Wadih founded Black Box Records Management in 2011 which was fully acquired
by Iron Mountain (NYSE:IRM) in 2019. He is a member of the Entrepreneurs Organization (EO) and a
member of Endeavor; a high impact entrepreneurship program. Prior to embarking on his entrepreneurial
journey, he worked at a global logistics firm after graduating from the American University of Beirut in
2003 with a Bachelor of Business Administration.