Dermot Desmond

IIU Asset Strategies Ltd. (IIU) is the hedge fund management subsidiary of International Investment & Underwriting Ltd. in Ireland. The firm was founded by Dermot F. Desmond in 1995. IIU is headquartered in Dublin and offers convertible bond and equity funds for sophisticated investors.

International Investment & Underwriting Ltd. (IIU) is a private equity firm founded in 1995 by Dermot Fachtna Desmond. The firm is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Rietumu Banka AS provides commercial banking services. It offers recurring transfers, mortgages, subordinated bonds, term deposits, fixed income funds, leasing, letter of credit, charge cards and insurance services. The firm also remote banking, corporate consulting and same-day payments services. The company was founded by Arkady Suharenko and Leonid Esterkin on May 13, 1992 and is headquartered in Riga, Latvia.

Intuition Publishing Ltd. provides computer-based learning services. It offers learning products including e-learning, mobile and classroom training to markets including financial, life science and pharma and public sector. The firm provides eLearning library products that provide content and eLearning courses in the areas of financial markets, business skills, compliance and eLearning for health, as well as eLearning support and implementation services. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Daon, Inc. develops identity assurance software. Its products are IdentityX, FIDO Quick Start, and DaonEngine. The firm also offers mobile authentication and biometrics, border management and immigration, employee credentialing, project and program management, and solutions architecture, design and implementation. The company is headquartered in Reston, VA.

International Investment & Underwriting UC (IIU) is an Irish private equity company founded by Dermot Fachtna Desmond in 1995. The company is located in Ireland's International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) and has a focus on key sector areas including technology, leisure, and transport. The company is based in Dublin, IE, and has subsidiaries in Malta, United Kingdom, Ireland, and Cayman Islands. Its core companies include Daon, a biometric enabling technology company, Intuition, a leader in e-learning, eSpatial, which provides advanced geospatial technologies, and IIU Asset Strategies Limited, a regulated investment management firm. John Gerard Bateson has been the CEO of the company since 1995.

TheNod.com was founded in 2007 as the new website for celebrity endorsements, recommendations and 'Nods'. A Nod indicates that a celebrity has been seen buying / wearing / using or visiting a certain product or place at any moment in time. It may be a pair of shoes a star has worn to a premiere, a film they have loved, a hotel they have stayed in or a book they have been spotted reading. TheNod.com is the brainchild of London-based serial entrepreneur Rob Hersov (Marquis Jet, NetJets, and Sportal) and LA-based yogi Ally Aitken, with seed investors Johan von Holstein (Iconmedialab, letsbuyit.com, and speed ventures), Jean Chalopin (Inspector Gadget, Care Bears, and Mediaplus), Access Media, Dermot Desmond & Jamie Montgomery. It was a spark from Rob Hersov and Ally Aitken in 2007 that ignited the entrepreneurial fire that's become TheNod.com-the world's first platform for celebrity recommendations and endorsements.

PricewaterhouseCoopers Ireland LLP provides integrated audit, tax and advisory services. It offers audit and assurance, consulting, deals, people and organization and private business services. The company is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.