Keiji Inafune

Keiji Inafune is a Japanese video game producer, illustrator and businessman. Starting his career at Capcom in the late 1980s, he was an illustrator and character designer of the Mega Man series during the NES and Super NES era, also creating the character Zero. Starting in 1996 with Mega Man 8, Inafune then moved onto the position of producer, and would act as producer for many subsequent Mega Man games. He then went on to be the head of Research & Development, in addition to Online Business and Global Head of Production at Capcom. Inafune was also the creator and producer of the Lost Planet and Dead Rising series, as well as co-creator of the Onimusha series.

After leaving Capcom in 2010, Inafune founded his own company Comcept, where he is CEO. At Comcept, Inafune is the creator of Mighty No. 9 and the upcoming Red Ash: The Indelible Legend games.