CERT (Centre of Excellence for Applied Research and Training)

Type	Commercial Arm of the Higher Colleges of Technology
Founded	Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (1996)
Location	Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (1996)
Key personnel	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
Industry	Education and technology
Subsidiaries	CERT University CERT Education and Research City CERT Technology Ventures CERT Thales Institute CERT Institute for Languages CERT Soft NexGen Technologies
Capitalization	AED 1 Billion (USD 400 million)
Employees	225 (2006)
Website	www.certonline.com

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 USD 35 million in 2006.

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 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.

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