CERT Group of Companies

The CERT (Centre of Excellence for Applied Research and Training) Group of Companies began as the commercial arm of the Higher Colleges of Technology in the United Arab Emirates, and has grown to be the largest private education provider in the Middle East. CERT is also the largest MENA (Middle East North Africa) investor in the discovery and commercialization of technology, investing US$35 million in 2006.

Cert Group of Companies
Commercial Arm of the Higher Colleges of Technology Joint stock company
IndustryEducation and technology
FoundedAbu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (1996)
Key people
Nahayan Mabarak

Al Nahayan, Chairman Dr Tayeb A. Kamali, Vice-Chairman Robert W. Richards, Chief Executive Officer Brian H. Colbourne, C.A., Chief Operating Officer

David Hall, Vice-President, Technology
Number of employees
225 (2006)
SubsidiariesCERT University

CERT Education and Research City CERT Technology Ventures CERT Thales Institute CERT Institute for Languages CERT Soft

NexGen Technologies

In 2005, CERT signed Telematics with IBM, that has led to the development of Telematics technology in the United Arab Emirates. CERT provides the only super computing center in the South Asia, Middle East, North Africa region. The CERT Blue Gene supercomputer[1] offers 5.7 teraflops calculating speed to corporate clients for use in biotechnology, nanotechnology, and genetics research as well as oil and gas simulation.

CERT Technology Park in the UAE is home to international companies such as Intel, Honeywell and Lucent Technologies.

See also

References
  1. CERT Blue Gene supercomputer Archived 2006-11-27 at the Wayback Machine, CERT.

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