KoBold Metals CEO and leadership

My focus is building scientifically sophisticated businesses in natural resources, energy technology, and heavy industry with particular focus on large-scale data integration and data science.

Co-Founder of KoBold Metals, a start-up mineral exploration company. 30+ year professional in petroleum exploration and production with 20+ years in management of engineering and technology groups of 100+ people. My professional foundation is reservoir engineering, including field development planning, reserves accounting, and enhanced oil recovery. I have significant career experience in exploration management, global personnel management, business strategy and portfolio management, corporate restructuring, and organizational start-up. My key professional strengths are global experience and perspective, general management skills coupled with a broad engineering background, rapid and accurate analysis of complex business and technical problems, good interpersonal and communication skills, and personal integrity. PhD Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin (Madison), 1982.

Josh was an advisor to top executives at oil & gas, electric power, and energy equipment and services firms with the Houston office of McKinsey & Company. Josh was at the forefront of McKinsey’s deployment of advanced analytics, leading operational transformations that delivered 10%+ performance improvements in power and oil & gas equipment engineering design and sourcing and power plant operations. His work on strategy and corporate finance ranged from E&P business unit growth strategy, to electric power utility disintermediation strategy, to acquisition target scans and due diligence.

As principal of Phase Change Resources, Josh led business development, sourcing investment opportunities and leading commercial underwriting and valuation of all PCR transactions. He also wrote PCR’s proprietary forecasting and valuation software and led PCR’s big-data digital prospecting efforts.

Josh earned his Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University for experiments in atomic physics that demonstrated how trapped electrons could be used to make quantum computers. He also holds master’s degrees in history of science from Imperial College London and applied mathematics from Cambridge University, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a B.A. in physics from Cornell.

My focus is building scientifically sophisticated businesses in natural resources, energy technology, and heavy industry with particular focus on large-scale data integration and data science.

Co-Founder of KoBold Metals, a start-up mineral exploration company. 30+ year professional in petroleum exploration and production with 20+ years in management of engineering and technology groups of 100+ people. My professional foundation is reservoir engineering, including field development planning, reserves accounting, and enhanced oil recovery. I have significant career experience in exploration management, global personnel management, business strategy and portfolio management, corporate restructuring, and organizational start-up. My key professional strengths are global experience and perspective, general management skills coupled with a broad engineering background, rapid and accurate analysis of complex business and technical problems, good interpersonal and communication skills, and personal integrity. PhD Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin (Madison), 1982.

Josh was an advisor to top executives at oil & gas, electric power, and energy equipment and services firms with the Houston office of McKinsey & Company. Josh was at the forefront of McKinsey’s deployment of advanced analytics, leading operational transformations that delivered 10%+ performance improvements in power and oil & gas equipment engineering design and sourcing and power plant operations. His work on strategy and corporate finance ranged from E&P business unit growth strategy, to electric power utility disintermediation strategy, to acquisition target scans and due diligence.

As principal of Phase Change Resources, Josh led business development, sourcing investment opportunities and leading commercial underwriting and valuation of all PCR transactions. He also wrote PCR’s proprietary forecasting and valuation software and led PCR’s big-data digital prospecting efforts.

Josh earned his Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University for experiments in atomic physics that demonstrated how trapped electrons could be used to make quantum computers. He also holds master’s degrees in history of science from Imperial College London and applied mathematics from Cambridge University, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a B.A. in physics from Cornell.

Josh was an advisor to top executives at oil & gas, electric power, and energy equipment and services firms with the Houston office of McKinsey & Company. Josh was at the forefront of McKinsey’s deployment of advanced analytics, leading operational transformations that delivered 10%+ performance improvements in power and oil & gas equipment engineering design and sourcing and power plant operations. His work on strategy and corporate finance ranged from E&P business unit growth strategy, to electric power utility disintermediation strategy, to acquisition target scans and due diligence.

As principal of Phase Change Resources, Josh led business development, sourcing investment opportunities and leading commercial underwriting and valuation of all PCR transactions. He also wrote PCR’s proprietary forecasting and valuation software and led PCR’s big-data digital prospecting efforts.

Josh earned his Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University for experiments in atomic physics that demonstrated how trapped electrons could be used to make quantum computers. He also holds master’s degrees in history of science from Imperial College London and applied mathematics from Cambridge University, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a B.A. in physics from Cornell.