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Josh Goldman

Josh Goldman is a co-founder of KoBold Metals, which he grew from inception to a team of over 100 geoscientists and technologists, complete with industry-leading exploration technology and a global portfolio of exploration projects. His expertise lies at the crossroads of technology and natural resource businesses. Prior to starting KoBold, Josh was a private equity investor in upstream oil & gas and wrote software to identify undervalued opportunities from large datasets and rigorously underwrite investments in subsurface resources. He was also a consultant with McKinsey & Company, where he advised leading energy and materials companies on strategy, corporate finance, and operations using advanced analytics.

Josh earned a Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard for experiments on quantum computing. He also received master’s degrees in History of Science from Imperial College London and Applied Mathematics from Cambridge University, where he was a Marshall Scholar.