Press Release

HENDERSON, NV. — May 1, 2026 — EVIO, Inc. (OTC: EVIO) (the "Company" or "EVIO") today announced the expansion of both its Board of Directors and executive leadership, effective April 28, 2026. Juan Pablo DeSilva and Alex Bernal have each been elected as a Director of the Company, and have been appointed by the Board as Chief Executive Officer and President and Chief Information Officer, respectively. Paul Strickland continues to serve as a Director and as Secretary of the Company. The Board of Directors now consists of three members.

The expanded Board and team are charged with executing the Company's strategic repositioning as a developer of proprietary financial data infrastructure built for autonomous AI agents — a market the Company believes represents a structurally underserved opportunity at the intersection of capital-markets technology, agent-native software, and machine-readable data primitives.

The official welcome statement from the Company reads: "Juan Pablo and Alex bring directly relevant fintech, machine-learning, and quantitative-markets experience to EVIO at exactly the moment the Company's thesis demands it, and the Board is pleased to welcome them as fellow directors. Their track record at the intersection of artificial intelligence and capital markets aligns precisely with the data-infrastructure direction the Company is pursuing. Together with the existing technical foundation — backtest engine, options analytics, multi-source ingestion, and automated research pipelines — this Board and team have the capability to deliver against an aggressive 2026 product roadmap."

About Juan Pablo DeSilva — Director, Chief Executive Officer and President

Mr. DeSilva most recently served as Chief Data Scientist for a fintech company developing artificial-intelligence, machine-learning, and big-data processing systems for real-time market sentiment and decision-support workflows. Mr. DeSilva's work centered on translating proprietary signal research into productized data and analytics surfaces for institutional and professional market participants.

Prior to his election to the Board and appointment as Chief Executive Officer, Mr. DeSilva served EVIO as Manager under a Management Agreement dated January 30, 2026, leading the Company's pre-pivot strategic and operational diligence. As Director, CEO, and President, he is responsible for the Company's overall strategy, capital formation, commercial execution, and customer-facing relationships.

Mr. DeSilva is based in San Diego, California.

About Alex Bernal, CMT — Director and Chief Information Officer

Mr. Bernal is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT) with approximately 15 years of experience navigating Equity, Commodity, Currency, Interest Rate, and Derivatives markets as a financial analyst, trader, and data scientist. He most recently served as Chief Technology Officer and Director of a fintech company, where he led the technical architecture and engineering of a machine-learning and signal-research platform.

Mr. Bernal founded Aether Analytics, LLC in Santa Barbara, California — a private technical research and algorithm-development firm that combined sentiment, technical, derivative, and fundamental analysis into systematic strategies for professional traders. Earlier in his career, he traded fixed-income, equity, and energy futures — including calendar spreads, butterflies, packs, bundles, and strip arbitrage — for the leveraged trading account of M&N Trading LLC from 2007 to 2011. Mr. Bernal also maintains an affiliation with Obsidian Quantitative.

Mr. Bernal holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Southern California. He has appeared as a markets commentator on Bloomberg and other financial-media outlets. As Director and Chief Information Officer of EVIO, he is responsible for the Company's technology architecture, data infrastructure, and the engineering of EVIO's agent-facing API surface.

About Paul Strickland — Director and Secretary

Mr. Strickland brings two decades of international corporate-governance and restructuring experience to EVIO. He is the founder of Selkirk Global Holdings and has held board and officer roles across multiple public companies, leading creditor recoveries exceeding fifteen million dollars in aggregate. Mr. Strickland currently also serves as Court-Appointed Equity Receiver in a separate matter, where his restructuring practice focuses on bringing distressed public-company shells through orderly cleanup, disclosure rehabilitation, and strategic repositioning — directly applicable to EVIO's governance and capital-markets workstreams.

Mr. Strickland holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Puget Sound and is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, with extensive experience in cross-border governance matters between U.S. and Asian jurisdictions. Prior to the appointments announced today, Mr. Strickland served as the sole Director of the Company. He continues to serve EVIO as Director and Secretary, with operational lead on corporate governance, restructuring negotiations with noteholders, and securities-law oversight.