Tsunekazu Ishihara

is a Japanese video game designer, director, producer and businessman who is the president of The Pokémon Company. Prior to working with the ''Pokémon'' franchise, Ishihara was part of Ape Inc. and worked on titles such as ''EarthBound'', and then years later he founded Creatures Inc.

Ishihara's work with ''Pokémon'', in which he was involved since early development stages during the 1990s, had him as a producer from Creatures while he also heavily focused on licensed and spin-off products such as the Pokémon Trading Card Game, with him founding The Pokémon Company to handle such business activities. He was also crucial in the development of ''Pokémon Go'', having supported the concept of a location-based Pokémon game. Provided by Wikipedia