SVTDG

... for the implementation of sound, long-term tax policies that promote the global competitiveness of the U.S. technology industry.

The Silicon Valley Tax Directors Group is composed of representatives from leading technology companies with corporate offices predominantly located in the area between San Francisco and San Jose, California (widely known as “Silicon Valley”). The group was formed in 1981.

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Oren Ben Dor

Vice President, Global Tax;
KoBold Metals

Contact

www.koboldmetals.com WEBSITE

Education

LL.M. (Taxation) Georgetown University Law Center; LL.B , Tel Aviv University School of Law

Professional Organizations

Tax Executives Institute, Seattle Chapter; The New York State and Israel Bars

Background

Wall Street law firms, Silicon Valley public accounting (EY) and private industry. Currently responsible for worldwide corporate tax.

Company Profile

KoBold Metals

64 Shattuck Square

Berkeley, California 94704


KoBold leads the world’s largest mineral exploration R&D effort to advance the frontier of exploration technology with AI and novel hardware. KoBold is making mineral exploration a repeatable science through comprehensive data aggregation and artificial intelligence. Its proprietary AI tools build on a concept called Efficacy of Information (EOI), enabling KoBold to determine which data to collect at each exploration step to maximize uncertainty reduction. KoBold deploys the world’s largest R&D budget dedicated to the search for scarce EV battery metals by exploring in over 60 projects across five continents and building the world's largest collection of geoscience information. KoBold’s AI enables it to collect the most useful new information and process that data at a continental scale. Geoscientists collect new field data, which data scientists use to re-train models enabling near-real time updates to sub-surface predictions. KoBold uses machine learning to interrogate this data to find new opportunities and guide decisions based on meticulous statistics. This approach enables prospects to be assessed more rapidly and accurately.