Novatech Incorporated
Novatech is a AAA corporation, holder of JRJ International, and one of the Big Ten megacorporations. Richard Villiers, current CEO of Novatech, formed the company to hold assets taken from Fuchi Industrial Electronics, which he is also CEO of, while Fuchi falls apart. Although Novatech is still relatively small compared to the rest of the Big Ten, it's meteoric rise to power has kept other corporations from starting conflicts with it.
Structure
Novatech's internal structure remains loose, due in large part to the circumstances of its creation. Since most of the current divisions of Novatech were snagged from Fuchi, a complicated network of old management, new Villiers-loyal management and external or personal interests makes Novatech a maze of internal power struggles. Villiers is working to slowly streamline the corporation, but several different factions each try to slow down his progress.
Public Agenda
Novatech's biggest concern at the moment seems to be acquiring old Fuchi assets before Renraku can get to them. Renraku itself seems to be a major source of concern for the company, but tension between the two have yet to boil over into outright corporate warfare.
History
The overlap between Novatech's history and that of its CEO Richard Villiers is extensive. Villiers created the company in 2050 as a holding firm for some of his personal assets. Villiers kept details about the newly formed company as hidden as possible from his rivals within Fuchi, who would likely intervene if they could. Novatech's assets slowly increased over the years, enough to grow as a company but not enough to draw attention.
Then, in 2053, Miles Lanier, Villiers' second-in-command, betrayed Fuchi and defected to Renraku, bringing with him intel on Fuchi's assets, which Renraku worked to sabotage. As Fuchi floundered, it sold off some of these assets which were quickly bought up by either Renraku or Novatech. Amongst these sales, Villiers snuck in the sale of an extremely minor division of Fuchi, JRJ International, to Novatech. JRJ also happens to be the company through which Fuchi has a set on the Corporate Court, so by giving it to Novatech Villiers won the company a seat on the Court and status as a AAA megacorporation. By the time his rivals had caught on, Villiers had locked down Fuchi, cutting off any of their power to respond. Fuchi employees now stream to Novatech, where they can get hired on so long as they don't have an association with Villiers' old rivals.
Founding Date
2050
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Rivals
Although nominally owned by the same CEO, members of both Yamana's and Nakatomi's factions within Fuchi hate Novatech for the place in the Corporate Court it stole from them. Relations have slowly middled out as Villiers offered new places in Novatech to those who agree to work with him, so long as they didn't previously work too closely with his rivals within the company.
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