Ray E. Nakazato
Executive Producer, AQ Interactive
President and COO, Feelplus Studio

Ray Nakazato is President and COO of Feelplus Inc., and Executive Producer of AQ Interactive. AQ Interactive is a newly establishedpublisher in Japan, which is comprised by three development studios: Artoon, Cavia and Feelplus. These studios make games for AQI as well as for other publishers.

Feelplus Studio focuses on developing high-end role playing game for the next generation systems and currently develops Microsoft Game Studios' Lost Odyssey in collaboration with Hironobu Sakaguchi, a father of Final Fantasy series, for Xbox360. Prior to his current role, Nakazato was Group Senior Manager at Microsoft Game Studios Asia where he was responsible for managing Japan oriented Xbox360 projects.

He started his career in 1983 making 8-bit PC games in Japan. In 1988 he moved to the United States to work at Broderbund and at Electronic Arts as a programmer/project manager. After coming back to Japan, He was Vice President of EA's Japan Studio then General Manager of Capcom's Tokyo Studio.