Bill Trinen

Bill Trinen (born William Trinen on August 21, 1972) is the Vice President, Player & Product Experience of Nintendo of America. He is also a professional Japanese-to-English translator who has worked on the localization of numerous Nintendo-published video games. He often acts as an interpreter for various Japanese developers, most notably video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto.

Education Trinen began studying Japanese while in high school and continued at the University of Oregon, where he majored in Japanese and minored in Business. He also studied international business, international management, economics, and translation for a year overseas at the Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan, and lived in Shibuya. Trinen has also presented in various North American Nintendo Direct presentations, appeared in numerous E3s and is a significant public figure of NOA's Nintendo Treehouse division.