Ken was a producer on many titles for Nintendo and he had an office in what is referred to internally at Nintendo at "The Treehouse." I believe he was promoted by Minoru Arakawa, Nintendo's former president, to the titlr of either Manager or Director because at one time Lobb was my boss, from approximately 2001 to 2002.  It was shortly after Arakawa left in early 2002 that he became interested in going to Microsoft.