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 one of the top 3 exploration groups worldwide, the largest investor in R&D for exploration. Today, KoBold operates exploration programs guided by proprietary technology on four continents, including the world-class Mingomba copper project in Zambia.
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 wrote software to identify undervalued opportunities from large datasets and rigorously underwrite investments in subsurface resources. Previously, he was a consultant with McKinsey & Company, where he advised leading energy and materials companies on strategy, corporate finance, operations, 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.

2024 Agenda Sessions

Disruptive Discussion - Africa exploration pipelines - why so empty?

The future of mining depends on exploring for, and discovering new deposits now – why then is so little investment being made into the last truly untapped mineral-rich continent?
How do we address the major prohibitors preventing exploration spend? – political instability, safety concerns, and a lack of transparent data
Unless radical change is achieved to address limited exploration spend, will Africa miss out on the opportunity to meet global demand for critical minerals needed to drive the planet’s green transformation?
Which African countries are defying the limited exploration trend, and why?

Monday 05 February 15:35 - 16:20 Disruptors Stage

Disruptive Discussions

Add to calendar 02/05/2024 15:35 02/05/2024 16:20 Disruptive Discussion - Africa exploration pipelines - why so empty?

The future of mining depends on exploring for, and discovering new deposits now – why then is so little investment being made into the last truly untapped mineral-rich continent?
How do we address the major prohibitors preventing exploration spend? – political instability, safety concerns, and a lack of transparent data
Unless radical change is achieved to address limited exploration spend, will Africa miss out on the opportunity to meet global demand for critical minerals needed to drive the planet’s green transformation?
Which African countries are defying the limited exploration trend, and why?

Disruptors Stage Africa/Johannesburg