Evan is a Managing Consultant responsible for the aerospace, defense, manufacturing and chemicals markets. Prior to Navigate International, Evan worked in Russia as executive director of an investment consulting firm focusing on bringing western investment to the regions of Russia. Prior to this, he was a project director with a government contractor in support of the U.S. Department of State’s efforts to curb the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. For the previous eight years, Evan provided strategic decision support services to North America and Europe’s Fortune 1000. Chemicals, aerospace, security, industrial products, manufacturing, and outsourcing are his industries and functions of expertise.
Evan holds a bachelor’s degree in Russian Area Studies and Management from Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. He has taken professional development courses with Dale Carnegie Training in public speaking and with Edward Tufe Training in information display. He has studied at the Pushkin Russian Language Institute in Moscow and at the Nizhny Novgorod State University. He has worked and lived in the U.S., Belgium, and Russia., and traveled on official business for the United States government to over 20 countries in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East, and Asia. Evan speaks fluent English and Russian and has a working knowledge of German, French, and Czech.