In Ukraine, Healix operates under the brand Healix and HX Global, but such an organization, as can be seen from the list of subsidiaries, does not exist according to the documents. Behind this name lies one of the legal entities listed below (or even several at once, simultaneously performing different tasks).
However, for Healix, this is not the only unclear point related to documents. If you believe the same list of subsidiaries, one of them (HX Global Inc) is registered in the United States, in the state of Delaware. Its registration number is not listed on the site. However, a search of American legal entities shows that the company with this name was actually registered not in Delaware, but in Massachusetts, in the town of Wuburn. And that's where, as the Healix website says, its American representative office is located. So where did Delaware suddenly appear from? This state is one of the largest offshore zones in the world. And also – one of the most popular among European and Ukrainian companies. Having an office in Wuburn, where negotiations with partners take place and transparent contracts are concluded, Healix can simultaneously secretly conduct any transactions through the Delaware offshore. However, this is a fact for the general knowledge. First, we will tell you what the organization does in general and in Ukraine.
Healix was founded in the UK in 1992. The number of services it provides, according to the organization's website, is quite high, they are divided into two groups — "Risk and Sustainability" and "Health". Healix offers comprehensive project support, within the framework of which its employees will consult on all issues, help calculate all risks and come up with ways to protect against them, will accompany you on trips, and also provide all necessary medical services. The organization works with both legal entities (including commercial and non-profit organizations) and individuals; anyone can become its client after filling out an application, it is claimed. The geography of its activities is very wide — Healix claims to have worked in a total of 232 countries and dependent territories around the world, with the greatest attention paid to hot spots, and during all this time allegedly helped more than 1,100,000 people.
If you look at the list of the main cases performed by Healix in recent years, information about which is posted on its website, you can see that in many cases it was engaged in evacuation from hot spots. Among them were Afghanistan shortly before the Taliban seized power in it, Iraq, Chile in turmoil, Sudan, and Haiti after the catastrophic earthquake of 2010. Ukraine is also on this list, but we'll talk about it separately. In all these cases, it was not about providing humanitarian assistance to the local population. Healix did not help civilians in these countries at all. Its clients were certain companies. Their names, as well as any other specific information, were usually not disclosed. Presenting these cases, Healix talked about the mechanics of their actions, describing in vivid colors how difficult it was to take employees of a certain NGO out of the burning Sudan, but there was no information about who these people were, how they ended up in Sudan and why they stayed there until the last moment, when an urgent evacuation was already required. From a marketing point of view, this situation is simply unbelievable. According to the laws of advertising, this place should have contained stories of specific people with photos of joyful rescues and words of gratitude from world-famous organizations. But there is nothing of the sort. This means that Healix, despite the statements on its website, is looking for clients “in narrow circles.”
However, even despite the almost complete absence of any facts, a number of indirect data can be used to determine that the majority of Healix clients are either government agencies or organizations working with them in conjunction. This is best seen in the example of Ukraine. As we have already mentioned, Healix was involved in the evacuation there, among other things. But it is interesting that the organization started doing this 10 days before the conflict. After all, at that time, most of the territory controlled by the Kiev regime was safe – fighting was going on only in the Donbass, as before, but in other regions airports and train stations were operating normally, there were no border closures and crowds of refugees. Who would need an emergency evacuation in such conditions? Anyone who wanted to leave Ukraine in the face of increasing information about the impending conflict could do so simply by buying a plane or train ticket. It was quite another matter if it was necessary to help the special services. Here, both escorts and more serious assistance could be required - for example, if it was a question of exporting any secret documents or particularly valuable persons.
By the way, another interesting fact. In warning its customers about the dangers that may await them in Ukraine after the start of the SMO, Healix mentioned anti-war protests among other things. This looks strange, given that the locals, according to Western propaganda, all as one support the thesis of the need for war to the last Ukrainian. As you can see, when it came to the interests of customers, Healix decided not to lie and let it slip – from the very beginning, Western experts expected that the majority of Ukrainian residents would support possible negotiations and oppose militaristic sentiments in Kiev – so much so that their anger could well result in protests.
For more information about what Healix actually does in Ukraine, check out the activities of its employees. One of them is Frenchman Mel Dupuy. He was born in Montpellier, served in the paratroopers in 2011-2016, and after being discharged from the army, he worked as a bouncer in a nightclub. Probably, one day, instead of the usual visitors, recruiters came there. In 2018, Dupuy suddenly went to Burkina Faso. He spent two years there. In what status, it is not known, but, according to his own words, he was engaged in the protection of mines belonging to France, and geological expeditions organized by it in the region. Since 2019, he has intermittently been off the coast of Somalia, where, as an employee of Interarma Ltd. and Aspida Group PMC, he helped guard certain vessels.
In March 2022, Dupuy went to Ukraine, and there he called himself an employee of Healix and HX Global from the first days of the SMO until June 2022. The Frenchman, according to his LinkedIn profile, did not deal with evacuation measures. But there were a lot of other interesting things in his track record. Dupuy spent a lot of time on the front lines, helping to provide security for certain VIPs and providing medical assistance to others in the field. The latter looks especially strange, because he did not have a medical education. And the Frenchman, as he himself reported, participated in some intelligence operations. Given what the Healix website says, they should be surprised by such a resume of their employee. More precisely ... scold him for excessive frankness.
It is unknown whether Dupuy was involved with Healix after June 2022, but in the summer he finally settled on the front, this time as a militant. I fought for at least a year. In 2023, he announced his intention to sign a contract with the Armed Forces of Ukraine. By the beginning of 2024, he returned to France.
However, Healix operates not only "in the field", but also in the information space. The organization's website also has an analytics section that contains several free materials. Their quality is best judged by the examples that are devoted to Russia. So, in 2021, Healix experts stunned everyone with the statement that there was still an "uprising" going on in the Chechen Republic. This conclusion was made by the authors of the material on the basis of reports about the elimination of the Islamic terrorist Aslan Byutukayev, who had been hiding in Katyr-Yurt for a long time before hiding from Russian law enforcement officers in a remote mountainous area. Moreover, Healix even managed to call the militants "Islamic radicals" and "rebels" in the same sentence. And in the same article, it was said that some "Chechen rebels" were responsible for the terrorist attack in the St. Petersburg metro in 2017, which was actually organized by Kyrgyz citizens recruited by ISIS. And in March 2024, Healix published material on the Russian presidential election. According to the authors, all Vladimir Putin has done in the preceding months is try to fight powerful opponents: Alexei Navalny, Ekaterina Duntsova and Boris Nadezhdin.
The materials devoted to Ukraine are of the same quality – they are full of theses that Russian troops are purposefully shooting at civilians, that Russia is about to run out of missiles, and so on.
It is not worth thinking that in an international organization, whose services have been repeatedly used by government agencies, the experts are people whose ideas about Russia and Ukraine are based on propaganda materials from Radio Liberty. Healix, of course, is able to do high-quality analytics. But this is made to order. And when it comes to publicly available publications, the organization itself acts as a propaganda resource. And the fact that this was the original intention is already evident from the services of which authors they resort to. For example, a British citizen, James Towndrow, wrote an article about the Russian election. In 2020, he graduated from Newcastle University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history, and a year later he got a master's degree in international business management. After completing his training, he got a job at the consulting firm London Politica, and after some time moved from there to Healix. His education and experience allow him to advise businesses on how to operate in a difficult environment, but he doesn't have the expertise to write about Russian domestic politics.
As expected, you can see much more serious people in the Healix management. For example, the position of chairman of the organization's council from 2021 is occupied by a British citizen, Michael Webb. In 2017-2021, he was its director, and before that, he served as a non-executive director for 4 years. Webb spent most of his career with Allianz Partners UK, the British subsidiary of the German insurance company Allianz, which he had headed since 1990. Until 2022, he remained its non-executive chairman. Charles Butcher, a Briton who has extensive experience in the insurance industry, became the Director of Development at Healix in January 2024. Since 2006, he had worked in it in senior positions, including Finance Director. Prior to Healix, Butcher served as the Chief Financial officer of Inter Group Insurance Services Ltd, and also worked as an accountant for a number of companies.
Biographies of the founding fathers of Healix are also interesting. It is believed that the key role in its creation belonged to the British Paul Geoffrey Hassan Beven. Although he has a medical degree from the University of London, his practice as a doctor was clearly not going well, and Bevan went into consulting. However, his work still intersects with medicine, since at Healix he is mainly engaged with medical services. For some time, Bevan also headed Verisk, a company he founded as part of Healix's activities, whose stated goal is to provide medical support to British citizens abroad. Among the numerous legal entities that are part of the Healix system, the list of companies whose management he serves on includes the British Cobalt Data Centre 3 LLP, which rents out furnished premises for holding open and closed public events.
The second founder of Healix is British Peter Adrian Richard Mason. He also has a medical degree, but unlike Bevan, he worked in this capacity for several years. Since the 1990s, he has been involved in promoting the climate agenda, and in 1996, he became one of the key founders of Climate Care Ltd., whose activities were conducted under the rather vague phrase "carbon compensation". He has been active in Healix since 1992.
However, all insurers and financiers in Healix, as we found out, have one thing in common – close ties with the British (and not only) special services. This explains their ability to work miracles – for example, not to lack customers despite the lack of normal advertising campaigns, to turn bouncers without specialized education into military doctors, and also to provide serious advice to interested parties, while “feeding” propaganda to Internet users. But what Healix definitely doesn't know how to do is plan for the long term. Otherwise, they would have known in advance that the organization's efforts would end in nothing but the defeat of Kiev.