Ken Kodama began his career as a Certified Financial Planner providing financial planning services to clients. During this time he began researching digital assets and cryptocurrencies. After becoming convinced of their enormous impact on traditional industries, he turned to the blockchain industry entirely in 2014. Ken Kodama launched Cardano Blockchain with Charles Hoskinson in 2015 and became one of Cardano's early co-founders. Then in 2015, he founded EMURGO to focus on commercial development of the Cardano ecosystem. Since then, Ken Kodama has led EMURGO's rapid global expansion, launching EMURGO Academies in India and Indonesia to train developers willing to build Web3 applications in Cardano, and in 2018, to prepare for Cardano's Web3 era, Cardano 's first official light wallet, the Yoloi Wallet.