John Paterson

Interim CEO and Director

John Paterson currently Interim CEO and Director. Mr. Paterson is an advisor to private and public companies and sits on the board of directors of the Company among others. Mr. Paterson has extensive experience in business and financial restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, corporate financings and business strategy. He spent his professional career in banking in Toronto, New York, Asia and the UK. He is a graduate of McGill University and currently lives in Toronto.

Travis Gringras

CFO

Mr. Gingras has more than twenty years of experience in finance, strategic planning, project management, accounting policy and financial reporting.  Travis previously held CFO and executive level positions in a number of publicly traded exploration and mining companies including as CFO of Integra Gold Corp (formerly TSXV:ICG, purchased by Eldorado Gold in 2017).  Travis is a CPA, CMA and received his B.Comm and MBA from UBC.

Paul Davis

VP, Exploration

Mr. Davis has over 30 years of executive, exploration and mine management experience for large multinational and junior companies. Most recently, Mr. Davis was VP Exploration at FNI Mining and over his career he has headed mining and exploration teams in the discovery, development and mining of projects in Canada, Finland, Australia and Peru.

His responsibilities include scoping and feasibility studies; project and mine permitting, environmental compliance and reporting, off-take and acquisition agreement negotiation, implementation and monitoring, corporate development, asset evaluation, due diligence analysis and economic models.  Mr. Davis also has direct experience in other corporate functions including budgeting, financing, investor relations and regulatory reporting and compliance. Mr. Davis graduated from the University of Western Ontario (BSc- Honours Geology) and the University of Alabama (MSc- Economic Geology).

Philip Vicker

Regional Geologist

Mr. Vicker has over 30 years experience in mineral exploration, with large multinational and junior companies.  Before EVNI, he worked with Falconbridge, Outokumpu and FNI Mining.  His work with Falconbridge focused on the Raglan Project, in Ungava QC on high-grade nickel sulphides hosted in a series of layered flows, with some similar characteristics to the mineralization of the Shaw Dome, and the nickel deposits of the prolific Sudbury Mining Camp.  With Outokumpu, Mr. Vicker was exploring for nickel across the Abitibi Region.  With FNI, he managed all nickel exploration projects for the FNI within the Sudbury Mining Camp.

Mr. Vicker graduated from the University of Western Ontario (B.Sc. – Honours Geology) and the University of Toronto (M.Sc. – Geology).

John Paterson

Interim CEO and Director

John Paterson currently Interim CEO and Director. Mr. Paterson is an advisor to private and public companies and sits on the board of directors of the Company among others. Mr. Paterson has extensive experience in business and financial restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, corporate financings and business strategy. He spent his professional career in banking in Toronto, New York, Asia and the UK. He is a graduate of McGill University and currently lives in Toronto.

Linda Byron

Environmental & Permitting

Ms. Byron owns Blue Heron Environmental, based out of Timmins. Linda is a professional Environmental Scientist with more than 30 years of experience. She has been instrumental in the implementation of Certified Environmental Management Systems at large base-metal mining companies in Northern, assisted industries with permitting efforts as well as the development and implementation of compliance and training programs for mining operations in Canada and abroad. Ms. Byron has extensive operational expertise in the practical, real-life environmental issues encountered in the mining industry and graduated from Laurentian University (BSc – Honours).

Michael Fox

Community & FNs

Mr. Fox is President of Indigenous Community Engagement, based out of Fort William First Nation, in northwestern Ontario.  Michael has dedicated his career to building Aboriginal participation and partnerships. He obtained an honours degree in Political Science with a focus on Aboriginal Law & Resource Development from Lakehead University and an MBA from the University of Fredericton.  Mr. Fox is originally from Weenusk First Nation.

Gadi Levin

Chartered Accountant

Mr. Levin has been an Officer and Director of many publicly-traded Canadian resource companies. He began his career in public accounting at Arthur Anderson and Ernst & Young and is a certified chartered accountant in South Africa. Gadi holds undergraduate degrees from the University of Cape Town and the University of South Africa and an MBA from Bar Ilan University.

Patrick G. Maggitti

Director

Patrick G. Maggitti, PhD, is Villanova University’s first Provost. In this role, Dr. Maggitti serves as the number two officer of the University and its Chief Academic Officer, leads the University’s overall strategic efforts, and has oversight of the academic enterprise including six colleges and academic areas such as Faculty, Graduate and Undergraduate Research, Student Life, Enrollment Management, Falvey Library, the Career Center, the Honors Program, Decision Support and Data Integrity, and Strategic Planning and Institutional Effectiveness.

Dr. Maggitti previously served as the Helen and William O’Toole Dean of the Villanova School of Business, spearheading its 2015 ranking as the #1 undergraduate business school in the U.S. by BloombergBusinessweek. A faculty member at the University since 2008, he holds the rank of Professor of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship and is the founder and former Carmen and Sharon Danella Director of the Villanova Center for Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship (ICE Center).

A widely recognized scholar in entrepreneurship and strategic management, Dr. Maggitti has authored numerous publications for premier journals such as Research Policy, Journal of Management Studies and the Academy of Management Journal, widely considered the field’s most elite research publication. He is also cited and published in numerous popular media outlets. His research interests focus on two areas: The dynamic nature of competition between organizations; and the manner in which executive and top manager’s characteristics, processes and behaviors influence strategic decision-making, innovation, creative problem-solving, and financial performance.

Prior to academia, Dr. Maggitti spent nearly 15 years in the steel and mining industries, where he founded two successful companies and held a variety of roles, including chief executive officer, director of national sales, and board member. He has also consulted with a variety of organizations on various facets of strategy, innovation, and entrepreneurial thinking.

Dr. Maggitti received a BS in Chemistry from Saint Joseph’s University; an MBA with high honors from the Johns Hopkins University; and a PhD in Strategic Management from the University of Maryland.