Appointment marks next phase of international growth as demand for sovereign AI accelerates

April 28, 2026, Dublin, Ireland: Core42, a G42 company specializing in sovereign cloud and AI infrastructure, today announced the appointment of Emma Cloney as Senior Vice President, International Sales & Strategy and General Manager, Ireland. 

Emma Cloney, SVP, International Sales & Strategy and GM, Ireland

In this newly established role, Emma will lead Core42’s international go-to-market strategy, support commercial expansion across key global markets, and help scale the company’s sovereign cloud and AI Cloud offerings as demand grows for trusted, high-performance AI infrastructure. Reporting to Sherif Tawfik, Chief Business Officer, and based in Dublin, she will also oversee Core42’s Ireland operations and help advance the company’s European footprint from its regional headquarters.

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.
• Announcement coincides with the launch of a report on Europe’s compute capacity and infrastructure priorities, unveiled at the Investopia event in Dublin.

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.