Rick Kossik

Rick is the co-founder of the GoldSim Technology Group, which was acquired by Datacor in March 2026. He has a wide variety of experience in the fields of probabilistic risk analysis and simulation, and has spent most of his career developing and applying probabilistic simulation techniques to evaluate environmental systems. He is a co-developer of GoldSim, a powerful dynamic, probabilistic simulation program used by public and private organizations throughout the world to support decision-making and risk analysis for complex projects and systems. He has applied GoldSim to complex environmental applications worldwide, ranging from the evaluation of proposed radioactive waste management facilities to the evaluation of water management alternatives at mine sites. Rick has also delivered over a hundred workshops and seminars describing simulation techniques and the use of the GoldSim software tool in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. Prior to co-founding GoldSim Technology Group in 2004, he was a Principal with Golder Associates, a large international engineering consulting firm (now part of WSP), where he also served on the Board of Directors of Golder’s US company for three years.

Involved in:

• Water Balance Modelling with GoldSim (June 2026)