Keiji Inafune is the original character designer of Mega Man and has worked within the Mega Man, Onimusha, and Resident Evil series of games. He is the golden boy of Capcom.
On April 22, 2010, Inafune was promoted to Global Head of Production at Capcom, a position that puts him in charge of overseeing R&D at all Capcom development houses worldwide. "Those of you who know me, know how serious I am about trying to make global games on a global scale especially thinking about America and Europe when designing a lot of our titles," he said. "I've been pushing really hard for the last several years to try and gear our games in that direction."1
On Tuesday October 19th 2010, Inafune submitted his resignation from Capcom effective from the end of November. He had acrued enough leave to essentially leave the company at the end of October. He left "with the intention of starting over".2
