Yoke-san surrounded by fans at BotCon 2005
Hideaki Yoke (餘家英昭) is Takara's lead designer on Transformers. He was one of the designers on Diaclone and Microman, and acted as Takara's liaison to Hasbro in the early years of Transformers' development. He has been working on Transformers ever since.
Because of that devotion, in 2010, along with Kohjin Ohno, Bob Budiasky and Peter Cullen, he was an inductie of the Transformers Hall of Fame announced during BotCon 2010.