Kazunori Yamauchi

Kazunori Yamauchi (Japanese山 内 一 典; * August 5, 1967 ) is the Vice President of Sony Computer Entertainment and executive director of Polyphony Digital. He lives with his wife and child near Tokyo.

1993 began his career in the gaming industry. In the same year, Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. ( SCEI ) was founded. The following year he took with four employees, the " Gran Turismo " project in attack. Today, he is executive director of Polyphony Digital, a subsidiary of SCEI with about 110 employees.

Yamauchi is the creator of the Gran Turismo series and is for the concept and design of " Gran Turismo 4" responsible. Yamauchi 's car and Rennsportenthusiast. Its private fleet includes, among others, a Mercedes SL 55 AMG, a Nissan 350Z, a Porsche 911 GT3, a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo V, a Nissan R35 GT -R and a converted Honda S 2000 with gull-wing doors. Yamauchi also owned a Nissan Skyline GT -R, which he, however, at night after only one hour of sleep to scrap went on as a substitute, he bought a Mitsubishi FTO.

At the 24-hour race on the Nürburgring in 2011, he won a class victory in the SP 8T class on a Nissan GT -R.

His fortune is estimated at $ 22 million.