Masaaki Oshiro

Masaaki Oshiro is the chief technology officer (CTO) of Palisade Bank Corporation, which he co-founded with his wife Ashani Talwar.

Background
Prior to founding Palisade Bank Corporation, Masaaki Oshiro founded UNGYO, a data protection company. When he met Ashani, the two were already among the wealthiest people in the world under age thirty.

Masaaki's work as CTO of Palisade include designing and overseeing the security system of the Palisade Blade, reputedly the most secure data vault in the world. To further secure the Blade against hackers, including a type of hackers known as "rippers," Masaaki secretly hired assassins to assassinate hackers. For this reason, Palisade is a company that all rippers hate.

Masaaki, along with Ashani, is also engaged in an insider trading scheme using confidential client information stored in the blade. One engineer, Simona Saridakis, is murdered using the Blade's security system as a result of coming close to discovering the scheme. Masaaki attempts to pay off Niko Saridakis to keep quiet on the incident, but his offer was rejected. Stanton Dowd discovers the insider trading scheme and blackmails Masaaki and Ashani with that knowledge. Although Masaaki expresses great concern to Ashani about involving Dowd in the insider trading scheme, an encrypted email found in a virtual-reality office belonging to Masaaki reveals that Masaaki is conspiring with Dowd, without Ashani's knowledge.