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.

Global Betting Exchange was established in 2000 by Ireland's leading entrepreneur Dermot Desmond with the goal to develop a global exchange platform for the trading of sports bets. Global Betting Exchange is now one of the World's leading exchanges and matches nearly 50 million sports bets to a value in excess of $7 Billion annually. Global Betting Exchange has built its technology around a networked Broker-Exchange model, and it licenses its broker software platform to gaming operators globally. This networked model works in much the same way as the poker network model by pooling players from many different gaming operators to deliver scale and liquidity. Global Betting Exchange also licenses its software to Sportsbook operators which allows them to access the exchange for pricing and risk management, while continuing to strike bets as principal on their own book.

The Sporting Emporium Ltd. operates recreational clubs. The firm is a casino and card club offering Poker, Blackjack, Roulette, Brag, Punto Banco as well as a range of online casino games and sports betting facilities. It also plays host to a variety of regular Poker tournaments, leagues and festivals. The company was founded by Dermot Fachtna Desmond in 2005 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

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.

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.

Part of BT Group Plc, Esat Digifone Ltd. provides mobile telecommunications services. The private company is based in Dublin, Ireland. The Irish company was founded by Dermot Fachtna Desmond. Esat Digifone was acquired by BT Group Plc from Telenor ASA on March 31, 2001 for $1,239.01 million.