Servecast | New Media Sportscasting
Founded in 1998, Servecast is Europe's leading specialist supplier of a complete New Media Sportscasting solutions. Through focusing on the requirements of the sports rights owner Servecast has developed a complete service offering including; commercial consultancy, streaming services (via our Global Data Network), Digital Rights Management, Customer Relationship Management, billing services, syndication services, and custom development.
 
 

A Winning Team

Servecast is headquartered in Ireland with offices in the UK and France. Servecast has emerged as the leading provider of New Media Sportscasting solutions in Europe. We have more than 150 man years of combined experience in developing sportscasting technology and have leveraged our extensive expertise with the leading Sports Bodies, Broadcasters & Rights Holders in Europe to ensure our products meet the requirements of current and next generation networks anywhere in the world. We have a commitment to innovation, service quality and product excellence that ensures our engineers are leading the marketplace, never 'learning on the job' at our customers' expense.


Darach Deehan, Chief Executive
  Darach Deehan joined Servecast in August 2005. Darach has 17 years experience managing business growth and market development in Europe, South Africa, and the USA on behalf of mainly NASDAQ listed companies.

Previous roles include five years with Centra Software Inc., leader in virtual learning and webconferencing, as Business Development Manager EMEA where Darach was responsible for regional sales teams throughout EMEA. Darach also served as V.P. of Global Alliances for Similarity Systems Ltd, the leading Data Quality & Data management vendor, assisting expansion into the US market. He was Channel Manager Southern EMEA for Marcam Inc., a specialist process-industry ERP vendor, where he spent four years in major account sales in Ireland and South Africa before joining the EMEA management team.
Kevin Quinn, Founder and Head of Sports & Media
  Kevin founded Servecast in 1998, having identified a significant market opportunity for the provision of online multimedia communications solutions. Prior to founding Servecast, Kevin specialised in satellite broadcasting and post production, having held various positions with Screenscene and Digital Space.
Ian Maloney, Chief Technical Officer
  Ian leads the Company's research and development team and is responsible for all new product development and integration. He is the principal architect of the Company's extensive suite of applications. Ian joined Servecast in June 2000. Prior to joining the Company, he held senior development positions in several leading technology companies, including Siemens Nixdorf, where he specialised in the design and development of strategic software products.
Des O'Grady - Financial Director
  Des joined Servecast in February 2001. Prior to joining Servecast, Des worked in the Leasing Division of Xerox Holdings (Ireland) Limited, where he was responsible for planning and coordinating the migration of the leasing business of various European countries to the Xerox Shared Services Centre in Ireland. Prior to joining Xerox, Des held positions in major accounting firms, including Corporate Finance Supervisor in KPMG Dusseldorf and Audit Senior in BDO Simpson Xavier, Dublin.
Valerie Kennedy - Marketing & Communications Manager
  Valerie joined Servecast in May 2007 and currently oversees all Servecasts’ marketing activities. Prior to joining Servecast, Valerie worked for a series of blue chip companies, including Van den Bergh Foods, Baltimore Technologies, BT, eircom and more recently the GSM Association. During this time she has gained vast expertise in developing and implementing international marketing strategies including brand management, product launch, strategic partnership development, and marketing communications. Valerie holds a Bachelor of Business & Legal Studies from UCD and a Higher Diploma in Marketing practice from the Smurfit Graduate School of Business.