Management

John Paterson currently a private investor and advisor. 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.

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.

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).

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).

Mike Silver has  20 years of resource sector experience, including co-founding companies, advising, structuring, and executing on billions of dollars in value-enhancing M&A transactions and industry-leading financings across a full array of product groups and commodities. Previously, Mike led HSBC’s Americas mining advisory franchise. Prior to HSBC, he held similar roles with Stifel GMP Securities, BMO Metals & Mining, as well as BofA Merrill Lynch Investment Banking. Mike has an MBA from RSM Erasmus University (Netherlands), and a BComm from Dalhousie University (Canada).