The name/calls may not immediately ring a bell, but he was the voice of ICOM on many forums as he had contacts in Japan for all things ICOM.  He started "rumors" and dispelled so many more about what's going on within ICOM R&D as well as new radio releases.  

I realized a month or so back that I wasn't seeing his posts anymore, but didn't make much about it.  He had over 4,000 posts on the IC-7610 group and over 3,800 on the IC-7300 group.  The last ones being in late January.  His history on groups.io goes back to mid 2016.