We are committed to building and nurturing long-term relationships with customers and regional partners – while honoring each other’s unique value, expertise, challenges, and tradition. In every potential or current partnership, we remain laser-focused on identifying meaningful opportunities for mutually beneficial collaboration and growth.
World-class technology solutions developed and made in the Middle East
Who We Are
We strategically design, manufacture, and support enterprise-class, reliable, secure, and scalable infrastructure technology systems to power immediate and visionary digital transformation initiatives for our partners across nations, governments, businesses, and industries in the Middle East.
As part of our daily and strategic operations, Kerno’s engineers continously leverage, assess and evolve the unique combination of our in-house technology and business expertise, software and hardware R&D insights, technology IP, rigorous testing capabilities, and meticulous design and manufacturing processes to enable technology excellence of every solution our team creates.
We are committed to leveraging our local and global thought leadership to establish the regional state-of-the-art Center of Technology Excellence. As part of its contribution to the region, we plan to provide educational and mentoring opportunities for the local R&D ecosystem members, foster long-term relationships with local universities, and educate, attract, and nurture future technology prodigies passionate about enabling future digital transformation in the Middle East and around the world.
As part of Kerno’s contribution to the future of the Middle East, we plan to provide educational and mentoring opportunities for the local R&D ecosystem members, foster long-term relationships with local universities and nurture technology prodigies passionate about enabling future digital transformation efforts in the region
Focus Industries
NextGen FDI
Partners in the UAE’s next genFDI Initiative
We feel honored to be part of NextGenFDI, a program initiated by the UAE Ministry of Economy to support the growth of the nation’s technology-driven, innovation-based economy. As a NextGenFDI’s partner, Kerno is now empowered to accelerate building its state-of-the-art technology manufacturing facility in Dubai. We anticipate making Kerno’s SMT and Assembly fully operational by the end of the 3rd quarter in 2024. It’ll become the first manufacturing facility of its kind in the UAE’s history.
Kerno is an important and welcome addition to the NextGenFDI program, contributing to the UAE’s progress towards becoming a technology-driven knowledge economy. With the rapid digitization of our societies, there is significant demand from large private and public sector organizations regionally and globally for the enterprise-class IT solutions and products that Kerno will design, develop, and manufacture in the UAE.
We feel privileged to be a part of the NextGenFDI initiative as we recognize the immense potential of the Middle East region. The UAE is undergoing a digital transformation journey, and we are thrilled to participate in this endeavor. Seeing Kerno become a part of the NextGen FDI program gives me immense pleasure, and I would like to extend my gratitude to His Excellency Dr. Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi for welcoming us.
Leadership Team
Demetrio (Deme) is a recognized global business executive with a track record of successfully leading high-performing teams at Nokia in the Middle East, Europe, and North America, including a team with over 10,000 members. Deme’s passions include revolutionary and emerging technology, transforming complex challenges into opportunities, coaching, and mentoring. He believes in the power of collaboration, the possibility of finding mutually beneficial solutions in any situation, and that people are the ultimate catalysts for change.
Tero has 30 years of diverse experience as a global IT executive and a strategic mastermind behind results-driven technology transformation, growth and innovation initiatives at Nokia and other companies in the Middle East, Europe and Asia. He is a technology thought leader, innovative entrepreneur, investor, and a strategic advisor to startups, scaleups, and other companies looking to expand globally.
Gene is a seasoned global business executive with a proven track record of driving revenue growth at IBM and other global technology enterprises. Over the course of nearly two decades, he has been able to consistently exceed revenue targets of hundreds of millions of dollars per year and establish loyal customer bases in highly competitive global markets. Gene is passionate about identifying mutuially beneficial opportunities and leveraging new ideas, technologies and creativity to create value for his customers. His personal motto is “Curiosity and people relations are keys to everything.”