Josh Goldman
Co-Founder and President, KoBold Metals
Josh Goldman is co-founder and president of KoBold Metals, an AI-powered mineral exploration company working to discover the materials for electric vehicle batteries. Prior to this, he was senior vice president of corporate development at Phase Change Resources, where he invested in oil and gas and wrote software to identify opportunities and underwrite investments in subsurface resources. Previously, Goldman was a consultant with McKinsey and Company advising energy and materials companies on strategy, corporate finance, and operations. He earned a Ph.D. in physics from Harvard for experiments on quantum computing, master’s degrees in history of science from Imperial College London and applied mathematics from Cambridge University, and a bachelor’s in physics from Cornell.
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In this series of short talks, leaders of energy start-ups pitch their big ideas: using A.I. to find critical minerals under the Earth’s surface, installing geothermal systems...