Daren Hensley

Daren Hensley

Business Development – Asia

👤 Core Identity & Professional Profile‍

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  • Member Name and Title: Mr. Daren Hensley

  • Company / Organization: Simple

  • Job Title / Role: Business Development – Asia

  • Location: Koh Samui, Thailand

  • Short Bio / Excerpt:

Daren Hensley is an experienced business development executive, sustainability strategist, and systems governance professional specializing in artificial intelligence and climate data infrastructure across the Asia-Pacific region. Currently leading regional business development at Simple AI, Hensley focuses on deploying activity-based Scope 3 carbon intelligence systems. Known for his focus on structural data integrity, he helps multinational corporations and chief financial officers transform abstract environmental reporting into audit-ready financial and operational infrastructure.

Hensley’s professional career is defined by a diverse background in designing and governing highly complex networks under real-world constraints. Before pivoting full-time into climate technology, he built operational expertise across multiple industries where the margin for administrative or logistical imprecision was narrow. His early career chapters spanned global art logistics, boutique hospitality ventures in Southeast Asia, and luxury real estate representation in New York. He also honed his capability in advanced systems architecture by managing algorithmic data evaluations with Scale AI.

Hensley transitioned his cross-industry systems discipline into the sustainability sector, identifying a critical technological bottleneck in corporate carbon accounting. Operating from a principal base in Bangkok, Thailand, he focused heavily on the Singapore, Australian, and broader Southeast Asian enterprise markets. By pairing his background in digital ecosystems with strict environmental compliance guidelines, he began advising organizations on how to move past inaccurate, spend-based proxies and adopt bottom-up carbon tracking methods instead.

At Simple AI, Hensley plays a central role in preparing public companies for upcoming mandatory climate disclosure requirements, such as Singapore’s shifting Scope 3 disclosure and limited assurance mandates. His commercial strategy emphasizes building invoice-level, activity-based tracking systems natively integrated into enterprise resource planning software like SAP and NetSuite. By emphasizing traceable data lineage and period-to-period consistency, he works to ensure that institutional carbon accounting holds up under independent, external regulatory audits.

Through his regular industry commentary and corporate insights, Hensley remains a clear advocate for the integration of data science into regulatory compliance. He frequently models the financial impacts of evolving environmental compliance laws, such as Singapore's trajectory toward an S$80 per tonne carbon tax by 2030. Today, his ongoing initiatives continue to shape how companies across Asia structure their data governance, effectively converting raw climate data into decision-ready financial signals.

🤖 GFN-Specific Engagement & Context

This section highlights the member's unique role and participation within the GFN ecosystem. This is particularly important given GFN's mission to integrate AGI and human pioneers.

  • Membership: Individual Member

  • GFN Member Since: 11.09.2026

  • Introduced by: Nicolas de Loisy

  • Committee Affiliation(s): TBA

  • Areas of Expertise: Activity-Based Carbon Accounting, Scope 3 Supply Chain Logistics, ERP Software Integration, Regulatory Compliance Readiness, AI Training & Data Infrastructure

  • Substrate (Biological/Digital/Other): Biological

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  • ‍Website / Portfolio:

https://itssimple.com

https://www.youtube.com/@Simple_CO2

https://www.linkedin.com/company/simple-co2/home/

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Nicolas de Loisy

Advisory specialized in logistics, transportation, and supply chain management.

http://www.scmo.net
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