Dr. Josh Goldman

Co-founder and President Kobold Metals

Josh is Co-Founder and President of KoBold Metals Company. Since inception in 2018, KoBold has grown under Josh’s leadership to become the largest independent mineral exploration company and the largest exploration technology developer. Today, KoBold operates exploration programs guided by proprietary technology on four continents, and KoBold discovered the tier one Mingomba copper deposit in Zambia, one of the world’s highest-grade and largest copper orebodies. Josh’s expertise lies at the intersection of technology and natural resource businesses. Prior to starting KoBold, he was a private equity investor in upstream oil & gas and a consultant with McKinsey & Company focused on corporate finance, strategy, and advanced analytics. Josh earned a Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University for experiments on quantum computing. He also received master’s degrees in History of Science from Imperial College London and in Applied Mathematics from Cambridge University, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a B.A. in Physics from Cornell University.