CEO & Co-Founder
Veritree
Derrick Emsley serves as the co-founder and CEO of both tentree and veritree. From a young age, Derrick has been actively involved in environmental stewardship. At 16, he founded a tree planting company that sold carbon credits to businesses, a venture that saw over $1 million dollars in contracts, and planted 150,000 trees. This venture helped pave the way to the founding of tentree, a lifestyle brand that plants ten trees for every product sold. Today, tentree has set new standards in the sustainable apparel world, sold 10s of millions of units, and contributed to the planting of well over a 100 million trees. More recently, Derrick launched veritree, a technology platform purpose built to verify, report, and monitor global reforestation projects - aiming to set a new standard of restoration. veritree now offers "reforestation-as-a-service" to thousands of companies across the globe looking to integrate high quality sustainability and restoration actions into their business model. Collectively, Derrick’s businesses are now supporting the planting of >100MM trees per year and on pace to plant over 1B trees by 2030.
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
4:10pm - 4:45pm MT