Hiroshi Kawai is currently a Senior Manager for Microsoft's Xbox Production Division. He began work at Square and served as a programmer on such titles as Final Fantasy IX and Parasite Eve. More recently, he was placed in charge of programming the Xbox 360 title Magatama.
Through his ties with Square and Microsoft, Kawai has a good working relationship with Hironobu Sakaguchi and had some hand in founding Feeling Plus studio, developer of Lost Odyssey with Mistwalker.
