Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 Honoree
2021
Co-Founder & CEO
tentree and veritree
From a young age, Derrick has connected people with environmental stewardship. At 16, he and his brother, Kalen, founded a tree planting company that sold carbon offsetting credits to businesses – this venture saw $1M+ in contracts and planted 150,000 trees. After graduation, Derrick became tentree's CEO, where he has been steering the company's vision since. Today, tentree is a global leading sustainable business, with a progressive supply chain, completely carbon neutral business model, and plants over 60M trees globally.
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