Darren is consulting practice partner focused on the Future of Transportation, Mobility and Smart City development.
Darren comes to us from Asia where he spent 18yrs in regional & global executive management positions based in Hong Kong. He has over 25+ years of deep industry expertise across a number of industry sectors including Supply Chain, Logistics, Automotive and Corporate Venture Capital.
Most recently, Darren was part of the investment advisory team of the worlds’ largest Automotive OEM’s US$1Billion Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) Fund. Created in Jan 2018 the fund targeted $200mill/year of strategic investment in industry related start-up’s with a primary focus on the Future of Mobility. Darren also lead a global Innovation & Business Development team for the groups premier luxury car division. This team ran a complementary global start-up accelerator program with an aim to both create deal flow for the CVC, and identify, foster and develop innovative programs for immediate implementation into the divisional group.
Darren also spent 15 years in the Supply Chain & Logistics vertical as a regional Vice President for the worlds largest logistics company. Based in Hong Kong and responsible for Asia, Darren ‘s team was laser focused on optimizing the supply chains of the firms top tier multi-sector, multi-national clients both Inter-Asia and Internationally. Darren also took the Global lead for the strategy & sector development of the Aerospace vertical.
Darren is a standing member of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, was the Asian Ambassador for his Canadian Alma-Mata Alumni Association and a proud member of Eco-Asia sustainability initiative.