John Paterson

Interim CEO

Mr. Paterson’s career is in finance and law working in both domestic and international financial institutions. With extensive corporate experience, he is currently a board member and advisor to companies in various industries and areas, including strategy, planning, and execution.

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).

Phil Vicker

Regional Exploration Geologist

Mr. Vicker has over 30 years experience in minerals exploration, with large multinational and junior companies. Before EVNI, Phil worked with Falconbridge, Outokumpo and FNI Mining.  His work with Falconbridge focused on the Raglan Project, in Ungava QC (with a series of layered flows, it’s similar to the mineralization of the Shaw Dome) and the nickel deposits of the prolific Sudbury mining camp.  With Outokumpo, Mr. Vicker was exploring for nickel across the Abitibi Region.  With FNI, he managed all nickel exploration.

Mr. Vicker graduated from the University of Western Ontario (BSc Honours Geology) and the University of Toronto (MSc Geology).

John Paterson

Interim CEO

Mr. Paterson’s career is in finance and law working in both domestic and international financial institutions. With extensive corporate experience, he is currently a board member and advisor to companies in various industries and areas, including strategy, planning, and execution.

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, PhD

Patrick G. Maggitti, PhD, is the Provost of Villanova University (just outside of Philadelphia, PA). In this role, Dr. Maggitti serves as the number two officer of the University and its Chief Academic Officer. Previously he served as the Dean of the Villanova School of Business and is a widely recognized scholar in entrepreneurship and strategic management. 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.