Yoshinobu Mantani is the vice president of engineering at Nintendo of America. Mantani has worked at Nintendo since 1995, in engineering roles for various games, many of which are titles for the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS. With regard to the Metroid series, Mantani was part of quality assurance in Metroid Fusion, and was credited in Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (testing management and supervision for NOA) and Metroid Prime Hunters (in his capacity as VP of engineering).