Genyo Takeda (JP) is a Nintendo employee born in 1949. The senior managing director at Nintendo and the general manager of Nintendo Integrated Research and Development (previously Nintendo R&D3) (Takeda has been a member of the division since 1981) was a member of Nintendo since 1970 after he graduated. He largely works on Nintendo hardware, though has assisted in the creation of many quality video games, most from the Famicom era. Shigeru Miyamoto, general manager of Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development and Satoru Iwata, last president of Nintendo, both agree that Genyo Takeda was Nintendo's first video game designer, having worked on EVR Race, Nintendo's first video game.