Tetsuya Takahashi

(born November 18, 1966, in Shizuoka Prefecture) is a Japanese video game designer, writer and director. Takahashi worked at Square in the 90s as a graphic designer and graphic director, participating on some of their most well-received titles such as ''Final Fantasy V'', ''Final Fantasy VI'' and ''Chrono Trigger'', before directing and co-writing ''Xenogears''. He left Square in 1999 to co-found Monolith Soft, where he would develop the ''Xenosaga'' and ''Xenoblade Chronicles'' series with Namco and Nintendo respectively, being the executive director of ''Xenoblade'' since the first entry in the series.

He is married to Soraya Saga, who also worked with him at Square Enix, as well as on ''Xenosaga'' and ''Soma Bringer''.

Takahashi is one of the founders of Monolith Soft, senior director and chief creative officer at the company, as well as part of its board of directors. Provided by Wikipedia