Ken Kodama began his career as a certified financial planner providing financial planning services to clients. During this period, he began his research on digital assets and cryptocurrencies. After becoming convinced of its enormous influence on traditional industries, he completely switched to the blockchain industry in 2014. Ken Kodama launched the Cardano blockchain with Charles Hoskinson in 2015 and became one of Cardano's early co-founders. And in 2015, we founded EMURGO to focus on commercial development of the Cardano ecosystem. Since then, Ken Kodama has led EMURGO's rapid global expansion, launched EMURGO academies in India and Indonesia, trained developers who are ambitious to build Web3 applications on Cardano, and developed Cardano's first official light wallet “Yoroi Wallet” in 2018 to prepare for Cardano's Web3 era.