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EMURGO GLOBAL

About Us

EMURGO is a global blockchain technology company providing solutions for developers, startups, enterprises, and governments. EMURGO develops enterprise-grade applications, builds developer tools, invests in startups, and provides blockchain education.

EMURGO is one of the founding entities of the Cardano blockchain, a globally recognized top-ten blockchain platform.

EMURGO leverages its expertise in blockchain R&D as well as its global network of related blockchain and industry partners to support ventures globally.

EMURGO launched EMURGO Ventures in September 2021 and outlined an aggressive investment strategy to target both Cardano blockchain-native and non-Cardano blockchain Web3 projects with the plan to deliver high-impact interoperable products and services to Cardano’s rapidly growing user base. EMURGO Ventures is the investment arm of the Cardano blockchain’s official commercial arm EMURGO.

EMURGO has announced the planned launch of its new U.S. Dollar-backed stablecoin, USDA. USDA is the first fully fiat-backed, regulatory-compliant stablecoin in the Cardano ecosystem. Fueled by Cardano and designed to safeguard Web3 companies and consumers from crypto market volatility, USDA leverages the stability of the U.S. Dollar combined with Cardano’s security, low fees, and eco-friendly blockchain. This new stablecoin offering locks in the value of investors’ crypto assets by pegging 1:1 to the U.S. dollar, reducing volatility, and unlocking fast global transactions without legacy banking and payment infrastructure delays.

EMURGO Academy -
An Educational Venture Of EMURGO

Global learning solutions

EMURGO Academy was founded in 2019 as an initiative to support EMURGO’s mission of further building the community and driving awareness around innovative technologies. The aim is to bridge the big gap between academics and industry skills as well as probing new ways to implement innovative technologies for business benefits. Established as an educational venture, EMURGO Academy focuses on incubation, training, and evangelizing Cardano Blockchain technology.

At EMURGO Academy, we are committed to imparting world-class education accentuating learning from a fundamental level. Our close relationships with industry experts and our expertise in Cardano blockchain R&D help us curate business and technical programs for entrepreneurs, students, developers, business heads, CXOs, and individuals of all experience.

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EMURGO Academy
Governance Council Members

EMURGO Academy's Governance Council Members

Council Members

Synergize with the global leaders to help building a robust, efficient and industry-ready learning ecosystem for Cardano. Bringing together the experience and exposure of Cardano ecosystem to empower EMURGO Academy. EMURGO Academy’s Governance Council is a high-level group of experts in the field of blockchain and Cardano technology and education and plays a key role in guiding holistic decision-making, providing additional expertise and bringing new perspectives for the academy’s programs and its overall growth.

Dr. Lars Brunjes

Director of Education at IOHK

Maksymilian Brodowicz

Haskell & Plutus Lead-MLabs

Robert Hever

Co-Founder of Charli3 Oracle

Sebastian Pabon

Haskell - Plutus instructor at EBU of Luxembourg

What Makes Us Different?

Hand-curated internationally aligned curriculum

My EMURGO, End-To-End Learning Platform

Post-training support and guidance

Live projects and Hands-on

Digital Certification

Programs designed by CTOs, CXOs, and product heads

Our Team

EMURGO is helping individuals to direct their path on the right way in the digital revolution. This requires a constant brainstorming, diligence and the zeal to sync with the many ideas which comes on the way before locking in the best one.

Team EMURGO is all about innovation, efforts and hard work combined, marching towards a futuristic goal.

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E Venkatesan

Chief Executive Officer

EV has more than 2 decades of experience in consulting businesses in education, skill development and ed-tech. Prior to joining EMURGO Academy he has led an Ed-Tech Startup as a founding member. He is an alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad and has been associated with names like NIIT Limited & HCL. He is known for his people and leadership skills and his ability to create new revenue streams for organizations.

Narender Balachandran

Chief Business Officer

Narender brings with him a fairly vast experience of 2 decades in the education industry. He is an alumnus of SASTRA and has held key leadership positions at organizations like TalentSprint. He has worked for organizations like HCL, NIIT and Princeton Review. An entrepreneur by mindset Narender’s portfolio at EMURGO includes Sales, Marketing, HR and Overall Business operations.

Bharat Mallapur

Chief Technology Officer

Bharat has worked extensively in the field of Blockchain. He co-founded a start-up in the IIOT space using blockchain as the underlying trust/audit layer. He has worked for organizations like Analog Devices, Media Tek, SONY & has over 17 years of experience in programming and IT industry. His portfolio includes Program Designing, Development, Capacity Building of Faculties and Program Development for Blockchain and other emerging technology.

Meenakshi R.

Chief Delivery Officer

Meenakshi has 2 decades of experience in successfully designing & delivering talent building solutions. She is an IIM alumnus & has held key leadership roles at TalentSprint and has co-developed SWEBoK a certification program for India along with IEEE Computer Society & has worked for organizations like SSI & HCL. Her portfolio includes Operations and Delivery for all programs, SME Identification, New Content Partnerships and Partner On-boarding.

Ravi Shankar

Advisor & Director

Ravi has over 3 decades of experience in HR & IT spaces. He has worked as Chief HR Officer & Chief Peoples Officer for organizations like HCL Talent Care & MindTree. He is a visiting faculty & executive coach at Indian School of Business, Hyderabad & specializes in Human Capital Management, Business Coaching & Executive Coaching. He is a pioneer in the space of corporate social, digitizing HR by using AI, BOTS, Voice, Gamifications and Analytics.

Siddharth S

Advisor & Director

Siddhartha is the founder & CEO of Intain Inc & has 2 decades of experience in Technology, Financial Services, Capital Markets, Investment Management, Global Delivery, M&A. He was the CEO for Managing Custody & Fund Admin Operations for Deutsche Bank & State Street. He has been working with AI & Blockchain Distributed Ledger Tech. to build financial systems with enhance intelligence, automation and trust.

Ken Kodama

Founder & Global Chief Executive Officer, EMURGO

In 2014, while Kodama was working in the financial industry, he saw great potential in Bitcoin and began promoting the cryptocurrency. He embarked building the Cardano project with Charles Hoskinson, and mainly worked on its business development and promotion, founding EMURGO as CEO in 2017. He has a wide range of relationships with both domestic and international entrepreneurs and blockchain experts

Rio Popeye Inaba

Group COO, EMURGO

Extensive digital experience with new revenue generation track record for global brands as well as major retailers across the Asia Pacific. US-trained Japanese executive living in Singapore as a Permanent Resident.
Specialties: Cross Border Post Acquisition Management, Sales & Marketing Management in US, Asia & Japan