前田邦彦 is a character from Parasite Eve. He’s a character introduced in the first game…he’s only mentioned in the second…and then returns in the third.
Now…my perception of him is apparently quite different from how the writers perceived him, because I don’t feel that Maeda from the third game is the same guy as the Maeda of the first game. He feels closer in characterization to Hans Klamp (the mad scientist from the first game) than he does to…himself.