Joseph de la Plante

Joseph de la Plante is the co-founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Evolve Royalties Ltd. (CSE: EVR), a royalty and streaming company built to give investors exposure to copper and other base and critical metals without the cost overruns and operating risk of mine ownership. A royalty is a purchased share of a mine's future revenue or profit, so a royalty company collects cash from mines it never operates. De la Plante has spent roughly two decades building exactly these vehicles — first helping to create two of Canada's best-known gold royalty companies, and now applying the model to copper.

His record is verifiable. He began in resource investment banking at BMO Capital Markets, advising mining clients on mergers and financings, then joined Osisko Mining Corporation during the development of the Canadian Malartic mine in Quebec, which was sold to Yamana Gold and Agnico Eagle in 2014 for US$4.3 billion. As Vice President, Corporate Development at the newly created Osisko Gold Royalties, he led the execution of more than $1 billion in equity, royalty, and stream transactions. He then co-founded Nomad Royalty Company, serving as Chief Investment Officer and a director until Sandstorm Gold acquired the company in August 2022 in a deal valued at roughly C$755 million.

At Evolve, which listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange in December 2025, de la Plante applies the same playbook to copper: acquire royalties on established mines and construction-stage projects run by proven operators in mining-friendly jurisdictions. The portfolio includes a 0.51% net profit interest (NPI — a share of a mine's profit, not just revenue) on Teck's Highland Valley Copper operation in British Columbia, a royalty on Foran Mining's McIlvena Bay project, a royalty on Hudbay's Copper Mountain mine, a 2% net smelter return (NSR — a percentage of metal sales) on the Sal de Los Angeles lithium project in Argentina, and a US$32.5 million sliding-scale royalty on Andrada Mining's Uis tin-tantalum mine in Namibia, completed in May 2026. A revolving credit facility of up to US$75 million with Bank of Montreal is meant to fund further acquisitions while limiting share dilution.

For investors, de la Plante is worth following as a practitioner of royalty investing at a time when copper exposure is hard to obtain through producers alone. He explains his strategy in public settings, including a copper-investing master class and a company interview with Jimmy Connor of Bloor Street Capital. A mechanical engineering graduate of McGill University, he is candid that Evolve's own track record is short — the company listed in December 2025 — and that its case rests on the portfolio and deal discipline he built at Osisko Gold Royalties and Nomad.