Former Microsoft leader to scale Core42’s global commercial operations
March 31 2026, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates: Core42, a G42 company specializing in sovereign cloud and AI infrastructure, today announced the appointment of Sherif Tawfik as Chief Business Officer (CBO).
Sherif Tawfik joined Core42 as Chief Business Officer
UAE’s AI infrastructure pioneer establishes European HQ to serve as central base for regional operations,including customer delivery, technical leadership, and partner engagement.
Expansion builds on recent initiatives with AMD, Data One, Oreus in France, and Domyn in Italy to scale AI infrastructure across Europe.
16 December 2025, Dublin, Ireland: Core42, a G42 company specializing in sovereign cloud and AI infrastructure, today announced the establishment of its European headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.The news was shared at Investopia, the UAE’s global investment platform, which is hosting its global dialogue series in Dublin this week. The new headquarters strengthens Core42’s abilityto serve European enterprises and governments seeking secure, high-performance infrastructure to scale AI adoption.
The first UAE-based neocloud delivers instant NVIDIA GPUs with true pay-as-you-go flexibility.
Designed for the full AI lifecycle, the purpose-built platform supports training, fine-tuning, and real-time inference at enterprise scale.
Built on UAE sovereign compute, enabling innovators to develop agentic systems, reasoning applications, and mission-critical AI with compliance integrated throughout.
October 13, 2025 – Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Core42, a G42 company specializing in sovereign cloud and AI infrastructure, today announced the launch of its self-service AI Cloud platform at GITEX Global 2025. The new capability empowers organizations to deploy advanced compute resources from NVIDIA within minutes and run AI workloads instantly. This launch represents a major step in delivering enterprise-ready, on-demand accelerated computing in the region, on par with global cloud platforms.
February 17, 2025, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates: Core42, a G42 company specializing in sovereign cloud, AI infrastructure, and digital services, announced today the launch of the AI Playground in UAE data centers. Built on the Qualcomm® Cloud AI family of accelerators and Qualcomm® AI Inference Suite for Cloud, this free-to-access platform equips developers and AI engineers with ready-to-use high-performance AI applications and agents, tools, and libraries to streamline AI adoption and deployment across cloud and edge devices.
21 October, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates: The Abu Dhabi Civil Defence Authority in partnership with Core42, a G42 company specializing in sovereign cloud, AI infrastructure, and digital services has launched an advanced digital portal that enables Abu Dhabi Civil Defence Authority, building owners and maintenance companies to register, manage, and update fire and life safety standards in real-time.
Launched as part of the Hassantuk program and developed by Core42, the advanced solution significantly enhances protection for residents of buildings across Abu Dhabi reducing property damage and improving emergency response time. The new solution also boosts overall operational efficiency for maintenance companies and building owners to monitor their work, ensuring higher safety standards throughout the Emirate.