Patrick Hiebert is the CEO and a Co-Founder of EcoVillages, a Freedom and Sustainability oriented community development company.

Patrick is a Canadian who has been designing eco-sensible and sustainability oriented communities for several decades. After founding several high tech software companies and selling them, Patrick and his son Spencer, lived on a boat and sailed the ocean. It was here that they honed their craft of self sustainability oriented living, generating their own power and fresh water, and focusing on a life of freedom away from reliance on big government and big corporation control.

Taking what he learned from living on the ocean, and wanting to live in a warmer climate and in a culture with more family centric values, Patrick moved from Canada to Central America and created the first off-grid luxury communities in Nicaragua.

Patrick has chosen to focus his varied skillset on EcoVillages communities. He created the F.I.R.S.T. (Freedom, Independence, Resilience, Sustainability and Transparency) standard for community development and is applying this philosophy to all the up and coming Veritas Village communities.

Through Mr. Hiebert’s guidance, EcoVillages has become the leader in this extremely popular type of forward thinking community development with EcoVillages designed communities in Panamá, Belize, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador and growing into Mexico, Costs Rica, Ecuador, Argentina and beyond.

Patrick is passionate about giving back to the local communities that surround the Veritas Villages. He created the Help Them Help Themselves foundation over a decade ago to make a difference by giving people a hand up, not a hand out. Since then HTHT has built schools, a clinic, homes for local less fortunate communities and has led many medical and dental brigades bringing health care and dental care to thousands of people in developing countries. Mr. Hiebert, through Help Them Help Themselves, is also an avid supporter of saving the lives of threatened giant sea turtles and has created several turtle sanctuaries. As of this year Help Them Help Themselves turtle sanctuaries have saved over 15,000 baby giant sea turtles and allowed the population of these amazing endangered species to begin to rebuild.

Always breaking new ground in the community design and Agroforestry areas, Patrick uses his deep understanding of technology to not only design highly efficient homes and communities but also to envision new ways of using technology, such as using blockchain technology (NFTs) for property ownership and has made EcoVillages one of the very few community development companies that accept cryptocurrencies.

Spencer Hiebert is a Co-Founder and the Chief Design Officer (CDO) of EcoVillages, a freedom and sustainable community development company.

After growing up sailing and living on boats with his father Patrick, Spencer developed a passion for sailing, and the sustainable lifestyles that come with it. Spencer would go on to later living on his own sailboat while working in the Marine Industry in Canada, and between that and assisting his father on his off grid projects in Nicaragua, Spencer gained immense hands on experience working with alternative energy systems and self sustainability concepts. The combination of this experience and actually living the lifestyle created a very effective knowledge base for what was to come.

In 2019 when COVID hit, Spencer found himself in Belize while the initial lockdowns were happening. The lockdowns were really the catalyst for Spencer to begin to design communities of off-grid freedom oriented living and self sustainability oriented homes.

The team was put together and work started on designing the communities that would eventually be known as the Veritas Villages.

Since that time, Spencer and the EcoVillages team have designed many communities with homes that support a large variety of lifestyles. From true off-grid tiny homes, to full sized luxury homes and condos that still put an emphasis on self sustainability oriented living.

Chief Operations Officer

Mr. Vik is a professional engineer registered with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta, Canada. With over 24 years of experience in engineering, procurement, construction, oil and gas exploration, economic evaluation, and acquisitions/divestitures.

Just as importantly, Erik shares the freedom and self reliance oriented philosophy of EcoVillages and is excited to be part of creating communities that hold these values.

As VP of Engineering for Tamboran Resources Ltd., a private Australian gas explorer and developer, he assisted in the public listing process, assembled and supervised international technical, environmental, regulatory and security teams in Northern Ireland and Australia. He provided oversight for the HSE system, AFE’s, tenders, awards, regulatory & environmental applications, contracting, procurement, and drilling/completions programs. Additionally, he created and maintained development plans, investor presentations and budgets for the corporation.

With all this experience and knowledge, Erik is the perfect person to lead the Operations of EcoVillages and ensure our attention to detail that is required to provide luxury homes and communities for our residents.

Erik is pleased to be a part of the team where there is an emphasis on continual improvement and an objective of being the best at what we do for ourselves and customers.

As CFO, Mr. Morrison brings nearly 40 years of business experience and financial acumen to the company. Together with his expertise in finance, Don lives EcoVillages’ philosophy of freedom and sustainability every day as a resident of one of our newest up and coming communities.

Don is a Canadian who has founded, successfully grown and sold companies in the hospitality space and been very active in public offerings and all the detailed financial reporting that goes along with being a public company.

EcoVillages is lucky to have Don at the helm of the financial department of the company with his rare mix of loving the numbers but also having avid interest in food forests and self sustainability.

EcoVillages is honored to have Mikkel Thorup as a member of our Board of Directors. Mr. Thorup is one of the world’s most sought-after expat consultants. He focuses on helping high-net-worth private clients to legally mitigate tax liabilities, obtain a second residency and citizenship, and assemble a portfolio of foreign investments, including international real estate, agroforestry plantations and other hard-money tangible assets.

Mikkel is the Founder and CEO at Expat Money®, a private consulting firm and he is also a Best Selling author.

Mikkel brings his vast experience into play helping advise EcoVillages on what freedom oriented people are looking for in the communities they wish to live in and puts his money where his mouth is himself as a investor in and resident of EcoVillages’ Veritas Village communities.