Team

Founding Board Member & Treasurer, Emeritus Executive Chair, GVN Board of Directors Managing Executive/CEO, Global Virus Network Chairman & CEO, EVINS Communications, Ltd. 

Mathew L. Evins is a founding board member and Emeritus Executive Chair of the Global Virus Network (GVN) and currently serves as the organization’s Treasurer and Managing Executive/CEO. Since its inception, he has played a central role in GVN’s development, helping guide its mission to prepare for, defend against, and provide an integrated first research response to existing, emerging, and unidentified viruses that pose a clear and present threat to public health, including COVID-19. 

In addition to his leadership at GVN, Mr. Evins is Chairman and CEO of EVINS Communications, an award-winning brand marketing communications and public relations firm specializing in the premium, prestige, and luxury sectors. He previously served as CEO of Pain Therapeutics Corporation, President of Cardiff Consultants, and Vice President of Vector Petroleum Corporation. 

While an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania, he co-created and co-published The Talisman Report, which became the world’s leading investment advisory newsletter during its three years of publication. He also served on the staff of Cornell Medical Center for more than six years, where he was the youngest individual ever to hold such a position at an academic medical center in the United States. 

Having been privileged to serve as Secretary and Treasurer since the organization’s founding, I am incredibly honored to have been elected to serve as Executive Chairman of the Global Virus Network.  I could not be more appreciative nor more grateful for the opportunity of working closely with Dr. Gallo, Dr. Bréchot, Dr. Giroir, and Dr. Vermund, the GVN team, and with my distinguished colleagues on the Board of Directors to advance and further the mission and consequence of the GVN. 

The COVID-19 pandemic has conclusively demonstrated the absolute and compelling need for a global and apolitical organization committed to the preparedness, defense, and first research response to emerging, existing, and unidentified viruses that pose a clear and present threat to public health.  The GVN was created to address that threat by coalescing eminent virologists, epidemiologists, infectious disease experts and public health specialists throughout the world, working collaboratively and accretively to advance knowledge about how to identify and diagnose pandemic viruses, mitigate and control how such viruses spread and make us sick, train the next generation of virologists, facilitate the development of drugs, vaccines and treatments to combat them as well as addressing the pervasive and often politicized public disinformation and misinformation.  The GVN can and must be the definitive go-to authority and resource to anticipate, respond, and mitigate global viral threats, as well as a beacon for advocacy, education, enlightenment, and insight based solely upon science. 

The GVN is at a critical inflection point.  Thanks to the outstanding acumen and expertise as well as the relationships and resources of the members of the GVN’s board of directors, we are now in a position to make the critical and consequential decisions necessary to advance and further the sustainability of the GVN, both financially and operationally, to ensure the future viability of the organization and make sure that the world will never again be unprepared, untrained, ill-equipped and uninformed to deal with pandemic viruses.”