Mie Kumagai is a Sega video game producer since 1993, and when the previous boss of the Hitmaker development studio Hisao Oguchi was promoted to president of the whole company, Kumagai became the new studio head and the first ever female president within Sega's development structure.
When he requested funding a second time, Sega's president, Hisao Oguchi, gave Okano a development budget.