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. Our principal investors are Breakthrough Energy Ventures, a climate technology fund overseen by Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and other global business leaders; Andreessen Horowitz, the premier Silicon Valley venture capital fund; and Equinor, the Norwegian state oil company. Ian has spent +20 years working in the mineral exploration and the mining industry. Kobold’s aim is to apply artificial intelligence to big subsurface data to create what it calls a “Google Maps” of the Earth’s crust that will identify new deposits of cobalt, a key metal used in electric car batteries. Her research was multifaceted and included the advancing merging of mineralogy and metallurgy studies that contribute to both enhanced understanding of deposit formation and efficient metal extraction. in Geology, and BA (Hons) in Earth Sciences from Dublin University, Trinity College. In March 2018, he was appointed Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Research Professor at University College Dublin (UCD) and Director of the Irish Centre for Research in Applied Geosciences (iCRAG). XinXin obtained her M.S. Dr Hitzman has a proven record as an ore-finder and mine developer. Earlier in his career, Alex was section geologist on a Witwatersrand gold mine, before moving into exploration geology in Namibia, where he undertook regional and detailed geochemical and geological mapping programs, the results of which led to planning, implementing and interpreting diamond and percussion drill programs. He is also a published author, with a novel that was included in many “best of” lists of 2020. Shareholders of Kobold Metals include Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, Norwegian oil major Equinor ASA and Breakthrough Energy Ventures, a fund backed by … These predictive models are used to guide our decisions of where to acquire land, what field data to collect, and where to drill to discover new ore deposits. With experience across the value chain she has seen the benefits of multi-disciplinary approaches and lateral communication and believes in the ability to apply new information and technology results in success. As Chief Scientist at Alion Energy, he helped grow the company to 50 employees and a full-scale R&D pilot line before moving on in 2012. KoBold Metals is a privately held San Francisco Bay Area high tech startup, backed by Andreesen Horowitz venture capital fund, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, a climate technology fund backed by Bill Gate and Jeff Bezos, and Equinor, the Norwegian state oil company, as major investors. She is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Our team consists of dozens of PhDs in physics, math, materials science, and geophysics, as well as top mineral explorers who collectively have >300 years of exploration experience and have made nearly 20 discoveries. The area, just south of Glencore’s Raglan nickel mine, is “highly prospective” for cobalt, nickel and platinum-group metals, House said. KoBold Metals is a minerals exploration startup, applying data science to the discovery of deposits of minerals such as cobalt, a key component of EV batteries. She is on the Board of Trustees for the American Astronomical Society and the advisory board for Udacity’s data science program. About the position. Many new mines will be needed if electric vehicles are to become widespread, but before new ore deposits can be mined, they must be found. He was awarded the Vistelius award by the IAMG in 2001, was Editor-in-Chief of Computers and Geosciences (2010-2015). The privately held California-based company has also lured David Broughton, the world-renowned expert in sediment-hosted copper deposits, to lead its … Jef Caers is Professor of Geological Sciences at Stanford University. He has developed machine learning systems in the human resources space and has created infrastructure and applications for petabyte-scale healthcare data processing pipelines. His professional foundation is reservoir engineering and project assessment, and he has significant career experience in exploration management, business strategy and portfolio management, corporate restructuring, and organizational start-up. KoBold is the first full-stack exploration company. Prior to joining KoBold Metals, he worked for Teck Resources for over 12 years in successively more senior roles including; Regional Exploration Manager, Exploration – Europe and Africa, General Manager, Exploration – The Americas, and Technical Director of Geoscience Services. in Accounting from Troy University. Ian Pearce has worked for over 40 years at the most senior levels in the field of mining and metallurgy. in Physics from UC Irvine before moving to UC Berkeley, where he earned his PhD in Earth and Planetary Science. There he led projects spanning the full lifecycle of data science from project proposal and management, data acquisition and cleaning, prototyping, training, and deploying and maintaining production code on AWS. She then worked as an investor at Basin Holdings, an integrated energy and industrials holdings company. Our business model is to deploy our technology and to invest our own capital to make discoveries and to expand and develop existing resources. in Geology from the University of Nevada, Reno, and a B.A. Patrick is a professional geoscientist with +25 years of experience in international mineral exploration and the mining industry. Backed by notable VCs, Andreessen Horowitz and Breakthrough Energy Ventures, KoBold Metals’ business is predicated on analyzing troves of geologic data to ascertain the presence of economically-viable concentrations of sought-after ores. KoBold Metals is privately held and backed by investors committed to the long-term development of new battery metal resources. He received his BA/BS in Physics and Engineering from Swarthmore College, and continued on to do his Ph.D in Applied Physics at Harvard University in low-temperature condensed matter physics, where he worked on imaging electronic wave functions in one of the the basic building blocks for quantum computers. This role has several important components: You will lead evaluations of potential properties for acquisition, generate targets, and design and oversee field programs from target definition through to resource expansion. in Geoscience from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. KoBold is looking for a highly motivated GIS Data Specialist to be part of our multidisciplinary exploration team. KoBold Metals is hiring a Software Engineer – Infrastructure (Senior, Staff, or Architect), with an estimated salary of $80,000 - $100,000. About the position. Berkeley, where he studied magnetic waves in Earth’s core and the evolution of magnetic fields on Earth and Mars using a variety of computational and statistical techniques. From 2011-2014, Jeff was Vice President of Development for QGC, part of BG Group, based in Brisbane, Australia. Kurt has also worked in private equity and corporate advising for Bain & Company. Savannah is a geospatial analyst and geologist who is excited about the growing intersection of Earth Science with geospatial and remote sensing technology. Senator Joseph Lieberman (1993-94); and American Association for the Advancement for Science/Sloan Foundation Executive Branch Fellow, serving as a senior policy analyst in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (1994-96). He is a Fellow of the Society of Economic Geologists, the Geological Association of Canada, and the Geological Society of South Africa. in Physics and Geology from Colby College. Equinor Secondee at KoBold Metals Fulshear, TX. As an undergraduate, Savannah worked as a fossil preparator in the University of California Museum of Paleontology and conducted research in vertebrate paleontology on topics ranging from biomechanics of extinct mammals and fish to the last occurrence of a dinosaur linage before the Cretaceous extinction event. KoBold Metals is a mineral exploration company that uses machine learning and other scientific computing techniques to increase the ethical supply of critical materials (i.e., Ni, Co, Cu, Li, Pt, and Pd) needed to build electric vehicles and personal electronics. Her thesis work involved using groundwater models and geostatistical techniques to assess wetland restoration efforts. In this role, Jeff also helped oversee COP’s global exploration portfolio. 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 Ph.D. thesis focused on the development of advanced characterization techniques to better understand the structure-property relationship of perovskite-family of solar cells. Abdel holds a B.S. Prior to KoBold Metals, he was a data science manager at Capital One, where his work focused on developing machine learning models to detect and prevent various types of credit card fraud for the company’s entire credit card portfolios (with purchase volume equal to ~2% of US GDP), and deploying models to customer-facing production systems on AWS. Daniel P. Schrag is the Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology at Harvard University, Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, and Director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment. She also holds a B.S. KoBold is looking for a highly motivated and experienced Geologist who will be part of our multidisciplinary exploration team, reporting to the VP Exploration. He previously was Associate Director for Energy and Minerals at the US Geological Survey, where he served from 2016-2017, and prior to that, he was the Fogarty Professor in Economic Geology at the Colorado School of Mines from 1996 to 2016. Matthew studied electrical engineering at Princeton University and computer science at Johns Hopkins University. Prior to joining KoBold Metals, he worked for Vale/Inco, largely on greenfield projects in Canada, Scandinavia and Africa. KoBold Metals is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, and Equinor. David is an exploration geologist with diverse interests in a range of ore-forming systems. He has years of hands-on experience in the full lifecycle of machine learning models at scale, from business problem definition and refinement, data and feature pipelines, model development, and model deployment and monitoring in production. The following years she worked in base metals exploration in the Americas, ore deposit modeling and resourcing, and geochemical analysis and interpretation of shale gas plays. His dissertation focused on the physics and dynamics of convective clouds, and how they interact with large-scale weather patterns in the tropical atmosphere. Jeff has a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he conducted research on solar energy applications. She now gets to combine her love of the physical sciences with her love of data to lead Kobold Metals digital exploration and data science team. He is the author or coauthor of more than 15 peer-reviewed papers and holds 3 patents in design of advanced solar cells. Over the last six years, he has divided his time between Cornell University, where he was the first Wold Professor of Environmental Balance for Human Sustainability, and Vancouver, BC where he consults on exploration, mining and sustainability. This diverse career has given him valuable experience in the various stages and aspects of the mineral exploration business from project generation, to field work to management of projects, having set up and managed exploration projects in several countries. in Physics from Dartmouth College where he built instruments and studied magnetospheric ions around Earth and near Jupiter’s moons. Equinor, the Norwegian state-backed energy company, is planning to take a stake in a disruptive mining start-up which already counts Bill Gates as an investor. She started her career in investment banking at Foros Group, a boutique M&A firm, focusing primarily on the technology sector, advising clients such as Dassault Systèmes, IFS, and Kodak. The core of his career was with Conoco and ConocoPhillips. He is excited to combine his physics and data science experience to important work facilitating a transition to green energy at KoBold Metals. Our technology has been built from scratch by alumni of top Silicon Valley software companies to guide every aspect of mineral exploration as well as mine development and operations. KoBold Metals is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Equinor. Traci has a B.S. Kobold Metals L Level10 NC Nanoscale components See all 16 investors Key people. Elizabeth Main. XinXin Xu has experience working on a variety of corporate transactions across a broad spectrum of industries.