Yoichiro Hirano

Yōichirō Hirano (平野 洋一郎) is a programmer and tech entrepreneur. He worked at Carry Lab from 1983 to 1987 as a programmer for both games and productivity software, and was commonly credited as Pina. He left Carry Lab in 1987 to work for Lotus, and co-founded tech company Infoteria (now Asteria) in 1998, where he still serves as a board member as of 2023.