Denis Faye | Hence Creative

Denis Faye

Home Base: Basville, France

Expertise & Specialties

Writing Fitness & Wellness Food & Beverage Technology & Innovation Documentary & Editorial Web-Based (Blog) & Digital Publishing

Languages

English French

Top Clients:

BODI (Beachbody), Roquette, EverGrain (AB InBev), Monuments of Cycling (BWR), Informa Markets, Alzchem Group

Biography

Denis has played dozens of roles over the years. Fresh out of the University of California, Santa Barbara, he relocated to Melbourne, Australia, where he briefly flirted with a career in advertising before settling into life as a surfer and freelance journalist covering technology, food, and the outdoors for Wired, Outside, The New York Times, Men’s Health, Men’s Journal, and others.

After taking a year off to backpack around Europe, he returned to Los Angeles, where he transition into an executive role at the fitness company Beachbody, guided the creation of nutrition and culinary programs and content, including the P90X series and Portion Fix.

After twenty years, he left the corporate world and moved to a 200-year-old farm in rural France, where he raises chickens, follows the Tour de France, and consults on content creation and development for nutrition, health, and wellness companies.

Career Storyline

Books written

Nutrition programs created

1000+

Editorial assignments, well, assigned

Bikes owned (currently)

My quote

Experience

Beachbody

As Vice President of Nutrition, guided the creation of content that helped millions. Also shepherded the company’s nutrition philosophy as a scrappy infomercial shop to a billion-dollar, publicly-traded company

2002
EverGrain (AB InBev)

Helped access the athlete market for their upcycled barley protein.

2022
BODI ( formerly Beachbody)

Concepted and hosted The Chase, an at-home cycling workout series.

2023
Move Nutrition Network

Writes a monthly column looking at sports nutrition trends.

2023
Roquette

Conceived and wrote the Nutralys Wellness Renaissance Report, a campaign discussing the benefits of pea protein for active lifestyles.

2024
Alzchem Group

Advises on strategy and generates content to support the company’s creatine brand, Creavitalis.

2024
Informa Markets

Reports on supplement and food trends and creates market reports for various outlets of this international media company.

2022
Eat This, Not That

Serves as a member of the Medical Review Board.

2022
BWR

Wrote The BWR Guide to Eating Like a Semi Pro: Nutrition Strategieën for the Most Unique Cycling Event in the World, a complete nutrition manual for this legendary gravel race.

2022

Testimonial

Denis is an extraordinarily talented writer. It’s always an inspiring and creative process when collaborating with him. His knowledge, wit, and passion for fitness and nutrition always exceed any and all of my expectations. I feel lucky to know him, and have him as a writing partner and friend.

Tony Horton

Creator, P90X

Testimonial

Denis has a great approach to nutrition. He keeps himself educated, which is very important in that field. It’s great to work with him since he is very aware of the concerns that a vegetarian like me may have while being very active with intense and endurance cycling.

Evens Stievenart

Winner, Race Across America (2-person team)

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