Daon is The Digital Identity Trust Company

Modern enterprises face an evolving verification challenge: establishing human intent in a world where AI-generated deepfakes, synthetic identities, and autonomous agents can convincingly impersonate legitimate users.

Daon was founded to solve this problem. We built infrastructure that verifies the human behind every digital interaction, enabling organizations to operate with high assurance across onboarding, authentication, and transaction approval. Our unified approach binds digital identity to unique, irreplicable human characteristics and extends that trust across every touchpoint.

The outcome is stronger fraud prevention, regulatory compliance, and a better user experience without unnecessary compromises on privacy. Since 2000, Daon has operated under one core idea: putting the human at the center of digital identity. It’s even in our name — Daon is the Old Irish word for human.

Since 2000, Daon has been at the forefront of biometric identity assurance. Established in Ireland, we have grown into a global, trusted partner to the public sector and many of the world’s leading brands, securing over 2 billion identities on 6 continents.

At the core of our approach is Identity Continuity, a concept we pioneered. This framework addresses a fundamental challenge in digital platforms: maintaining trust beyond the point of login. Rather than treating identity as a one-time event, we establish a single, trusted identity for each user and extend that trust across every interaction, channel, and moment of risk. This Identity Continuity model enables organizations to reduce fraud, improve customer experience, and realize greater value from their identity investments.

Our platforms are built on deep scientific and engineering expertise. Through Daon Labs, our teams have been granted more than 285 patents globally, spanning biometric authentication, deepfake detection, agentic AI, and emerging areas such as quantum identity.

With new technologies fueling identity fraud at scale, organizations need infrastructure that can not only verify who a user is but also confirm that each critical action is genuinely human and intentional. Daon has the experience and capability to meet that need today and into the future.

From veterans who have been with the company since its inception, to newer talent with a wealth of technical knowledge and entrepreneurial experience in identity fraud prevention, Daon’s leadership team offers decades of combined expertise in creating trust across industries and continents.

Dermot Desmond

Founder, Owner and Chairman

Tom Grissen

Chief Executive Officer

Ralph Rodriguez

President & Chief Product Officer

Kathleen Frederick

Global Head of Human Resources

James Ahern

Chief Technology Officer

Martin Walsh

Chief Legal Officer

Jason Carr

Head of Finance

Doug Swope

Chief Information Security Officer

Bob Long

President, Americas

Clive Bourke

President, EMEA & APAC

Conor White

President, Strategic Initiatives

John Duggan

Exec. Vice President, APAC

Fairfax, Virginia

Daon, Inc.

4097 Monument Corner Dr.

Suite 550

Fairfax, VA 22030, USA

Phone: +1 703 984 4000

Dublin, Ireland

Daon Limited

IFSC House

Custom House Quay

Dublin 1, Ireland

Dublin: +353 1 818 1640

London: +44 20 4577 2221

Canberra, Australia

Daon PTY

Office Foyer, Ste. 65, Lvl. 1

10-12 Lonsdale St.

Braddon, ACT 2612

Phone: +61 2 6230 0950

Belgrade, Serbia

Daon d.o.o.

AK Kompresor

Žorža Klemansoa 19

Belgrade, Serbia

Phone: +381 60 5225249

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