Hugh Werner
Born on 18 June 2005 in Darwin, Australia
57 years, 1.78m, 64kgs
caucasian, h/brown-grey, e/green
Position: President and main shareholder of Werner Global
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>>> Hugh Werner is a brilliant student, getting a Master of Business Administration from Evanston Business School, an electronic engineering graduation in Vancouver University and another business diploma from the INSEAD in France. He's still in France during the 2029 Crash, and only returns to Australia in 2033. Back in Australia, he creates Werner Investments with his father. Andrew Werner is the CFO of the Australian Pacific Bank and a famous financial consultant, often called by the Japanese megacorporations. Werner Investments first operation is a contract with the Australian Pacific Bank to salvage its holdings who remained in a critical situations after the Crash. Hugh Werner and his team achieve impressive results. In 2034, Werner Investments is renamed Werner Global and starts to act independantly from the APB. Soon after the Werners buys back the stock owned in their company by the APB. On the personal point of view, Hugh Werner marries Marissa Wood, an Australian top model he first met in Paris, in 2036.
>>> Hugh Werner quickly gains the reputation of an outsider, wrong-footing Tokyo stock exchange tendancies and winning. He acquires 1.3% of Renraku Holdings and 2.1% of Yamatetsu Corporation, two investments who will brought millions. But his two main investments are smaller companies, the Oceanic Affair Bank and the Height Media conglomerate.
>>> In 2039, Werner Global acquires SandTech, Red Electronics and KR Systems who become the base of the WernTech division. Red Electronic and KR have a sulfurous past, as they were involved in Japanese corporations' black operations. Before that, it's likely KR Systems was orphaned by the ASIS' (Australian Secret Intelligence Service) dissolution in 2031. According to certain sources, the apparent orphanage of KR, its involvement in Japanese operations and the buyout by Werner are all parts of an Australian industrial espionage attempt against Japanese corporations. In 2042, Werner Global becomes the main shareholder of the transport specialist Area Group in Hong Kong. The following year, Zeta-ImpChem sells of its controlling stock in Phoenics in the process of eliminating deadweight after the Polydopa scandal. Werner leads a group of investissors, and merges most of the WernTech cybernetic division with the Phoenics. 2045 is the start of Werner big financial operations. That year, a group of seventeen small-scale exchange bid lowers the Werner Global to 14% of the Phoenics, Werner remaining the primary shareholder while gaining control of eleven other companies. In 2047, another, larger, exchange bid on the WernTech stock allows Werner to acquire 10% of Tanamyre Resources, the other major Australian corporation.
>>> At that time, Hugh Werner is the richest Australian person, as he bought to his father his shares in Werner Global to become the only shareholder. Andrew Werner retires from business (he died since, as his wife, in 2057). All the Werner family, including Hugh's brother Bruce Werner, his wife Alicia and their two daughters Cassidy and Joyce, live like a Royal family in the Werner property near Melbourne (well, they aien't exactly considered like a royal family in New South Wales and Queensland). For other people, Hugh Werner earns fame as the middleman in the negotiations between the Australian governement, the corporations and the aborigines in 2042 and again in 2046. Along with various other actions, it will earns for Hugh Werner the title of honorary ambassador for the UNESCO in 2049.
>>> Then start the opposed movement, as Werner Global consolidates its assets. In 2052, Dunkelzahn sells to Werner (Hugh Werner himself, not his holding) 32% of the Phoenics he acquired, and in 2053 Werner sells im as a payback his shares in Tanamyre and Turner Data. In 2056, Werner Global drop on the markets all its shareholding in the prime megacorporations, and use the cash gained that way to acquire an additional 3% in Phoenics and 9% in WernTech and fully fund the WernTech robotic division. By late 2057, Werner Global finally retrieve the last percent of WernTech, alledgly sold by the Draco Fundation.
>>> In early 2058, the Werner starts what will become its main project, the W.E.R.N network (World Exchange & Research Network), a new set of data transmission protocols and connections integrated to the existing matricial systems. WERN installations in Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney (via Sydney-South Tunnel built by Area Group) in Australia, and Hong Kong, New York, Los Angeles and Phoenix are linked with that system. The cybernetic industry is left aside as the bio-euphoria falls down. As the Phoenics and Phoenix Biotechnologies battles in UCAS court for brand use, the situation is surprinsigly settled by a merger between the two corporations in 2061. Hugh Werner suddenly became close to Phoenix Biotechnologies main shareholder, the Pueblo Corporate Council, as it just annexed Los Angeles and put a feet in the Pacific media industry. During the same press conference, Hugh Werner makes the annoucement of the WERN experimental pahse completion and his own step-down as the CEO of Werner Global to be replaced by Travis O'Hara, to focus on WernTech management.
Werner Global
Headquarters: Melbourne, Australia
President: Hugh Werner
CEO: Travis O'Hara
Status: private A-corporation
Capital: Hugh Werner (100%)
Activities: management, investment
Assets:
100% WernTech
85% Oceanic Affaire Bank
78% Height Media
45% Area Group
27% Tesseract Communications
11% Malaysian Independant Bank
2% Cross Applied Technologies
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WernTech
Headquarters: Adelaide, Australia
President/CEO: Hugh Werner
Capital: Werner Global (100%)
Activities: management, investment, research and development
Divisions:
Werner Robotics (robotics)
WERN Lines (telecom)
Assets:
100% KR Systems
95% SandTech
88% Red Electronics
11.5% Phoenix Biotechnologies
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>>> Hugh Werner financial empire is almost exclusively in the Werner Global holding, which he wholly owns. The shares he owned in his name in other companies were trasnferred to Werner Global or WernTech when he left the daily management of Werner Global.
>>> Most of Werner investments have an objective of technologic innovation. Werner also acquire minority stockholding in small innovative companies and financially support them. The same policy applies toward the Area Group who heavily invest in modern transportation ways, and Phoenix Biotechnologies and its push in Delta grade cybernetic.
>>> Through stockholding, contracts and joint-ventures, Werner is tied to a set of companies and corporations representing 61% of the computers world market, and 81% of the telecom. Some of this link are however tenious (SandTech is for instance producing the silicon structure integrity sensor SND-100, the most used in the world) but Werner also has direct shareholding in major group like Cross Applied Technologies. Add to this the WERN project. While remaining a financial holding, Werner is concentrated on telecom.
Area Group PLC
Headquarters: Hong Kong
President: James Harper-Smythe
Main shareholders:
Werner Global (45%)
James Harper-Smythe (20%)
Wuxing Worldwide Shipping (7.5%)
Activities: vehicles, navigation systems, infrastructures
KR Systems
Headquarters: Darwin, Australia
CEO: Conrad Stevens
Capital:
WernTech 100%
Activities: transmitters, cybernetics
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Height Media
Headquarters: Los Angeles, Pueblo Council
Main shareholders:
Werner Global (78%)
Co-Pacific Financial (15%)
Activities: media
Red Electronics
Headquarters: Camberra, Australia
Manager: Dr. William Douglas
Capital:
WernTech 88%
Aurora Biofacilities 12%
Activities: biological and thaumaturgical analyzers
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MAJOR AFFILIATES
Oceanic Affairs Bank
Headquarters: Auckland, New Zealand
President/CEO: Henri Dumont
Main shareholders:
Werner Global (85%)
Activities: finance
SandTech
Headquarters: Adelaide, Australia
CEO: Kenji Maehiro
Capital:
WERNTech 95%
Kenji Maehiro 5%
Activities: basic electronics
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Travis O'Hara
Born on 3 january 2010 in Braidwood, AUS
53 years, 1.69m, 79kgs
caucasian, h/white, e/brown
Position: CEO of Werner Global
Henri Dumont
Born on 21 december 1997 in Papeete,Tahiti
65 years, 1.73m, 73kgs
caucasian, h/gray, e/brown
Position: CEO of Oceanic Affair Bank
Frank Tyler
Born on 27 may 2005 in Darwin, Australia
58 years, 1.78m, 67kgs
caucasian, h/white, e/blue
Position: <unknown>
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>>> Before becoming the CEO of Werner Global, Travis O'Hara was the head of the Indonesian division from 2052 to 2055 and the Australian division from 2055 to 2061. His only objectives seem to be to maintain the funding of WernTech research, as he's widely as too conservative to pursue an expansion policy as innovative as Werner did. Nevertheless, he's the protégé of Henri Dumont, the Oceanic Affair Bank. Due ot his age, Dumont declined the position of Werner Global CEO but he remains the prime advisor of O'Hara and Werner himself. Since they met in Paris, Dumont has always been behind Werner.
>>> Frank Tyler is another item of interest. He met Hugh Werner when both were in the Royal Australian Marines in 2023. After that, Tyler entered in the Navy intelligence service and had an interesting career in the intelligence services: Prime Minister protection unit, advisor for security to the United Nations and assigned to the Network Maintenance Agency (the GOD ancestor under UN controls). All along, Tyler and Werner never ceased to be very close friends, casting serious doubts about some events, the most obvious being the acquisition by Werner Global of KR Systems, a company previously tied to Australian intelligence covert operations.
- Allies - Until his death, Dunkelzahn seemed to have friendly business relationship with Werner. Philanthropy was also a common trait. This relation carried on with the Draco Fundation. The Funcation's office in Hong Kon is linked to the WERNetwork. The other important player close to Werner are Masaru, James Harper-Smythe of Wuxing and Ramon Dizon of Yamatetsu.
- Enemies - Although there interests lies in different domains, Werner and the Tanamyre Resources megacorporation often compete when it comes to political influence in Australia. Erika Telecom and Transys Neuronet by investing massive funds in the Wireless Matrix Iniative have caused a major blow to the WERN project. WernTech can make millions nuyens with telecom software release for each months of WMI delay.
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