Satoru Iwata

Satoru Iwata was the fourth president of Nintendo, succeeding Hiroshi Yamauchi and was the only president that wasn't related to the Yamauchi family by blood or marriage.

Before he joined Nintendo, Iwata worked at HAL Laboratories and worked on games such as Balloon Fight, Earthbound, and the Kirby franchise.'' He eventually became president of Hal Laboratories before he joined Nintendo in 2002.

He became president of Nintendo in 2002 and was oversaw the development of the Nintendo DS, which revitalized Nintendo's handheld market, and oversaw the development of the Nintendo Wii, which caused Nintendo's stock prices to rise up. Iwata even took half of his own salary to help compete against Sony and Microsoft. During his entire career, he was the chief producer of over 117 game titles

In 2014 around E3, Satoru Iwata was undergoing surgery to remove a tumor from his bile duct. Unfortunately the surgery had complications and on July 12, 2015, Nintendo announced that Satoru Iwata had died from it.