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An unidentified Chairman of OCP was appointed after the also unidentified CEO.

Biography[]

Before he was Chairman of OCP, he went on three dates with Tessa Stark, a colleague who was ahead of him in line to be the OCP Chairperson. The morning after their third date – during which the future Chairman got drunk and Tessa stayed the night – he reported her to the police as a suspect in a bombing that killed six people.[1]

The Chairman was interviewed on Mediabreak concerning MetroNet, the supercomputer that OCP planned to utilize in automating Delta City's utilities and transportation infrastructure.[2]

Later, the Chairman attended a presentation of NeuroBrain by Chip Chayken and Dr. Cray Z. Mallardo. He ultimately approved of their plan and looked forward to the jealousy of other companies.[2]

At the Shareware Expo, the Chairman unveiled MetroNet to fellow businesspeople, displaying the automation capabilities it had.[2]

He later met with Mallardo, thanking him for the demonstration of MetroNet, but learned that Mallardo was responsible for the deaths of fellow business executives in an elevator on the premises. Mallardo further revealed that he was in full control of MetroNet, thus in control of Delta City. The Chairman refused to make this control legally recognized.[2]

With Mallardo in full control of OCP, the Chairman discussed with his board their options for removing Mallardo, who then destroyed appliances in the room, prompting the board to flee, with the Chairman attempting to warn them about the elevators.[2]

Officer Lisa Madigan soon came to the Chairman, reporting that RoboCop had uncovered evidence against Dr. Mallardo and requested to have the cyborg put back online. The Chairman agreed to this, immediately ordering Charlie Lippencott to reactivate the cyborg. However, Chayken managed to sabotage RoboCop's memory banks, causing him to suffer amnesia.[2]

Soon, the holographic Diana Powers, who controlled NeuroBrain, came to repair RoboCop. On his way to save Powers, RoboCop told the Chairman that Mallardo was wanted for murder.[2]

Following the arrests of Mallardo and Chayken, the Chairman told Sergeant Stanley Parks that OCP in no way condoned their actions.[2]

The Chairman later led a meeting celebrating the success of the company's diet product No Gain. During this meeting, Kevin Frosh asked for further testing of the product, but the Chairman failed to acknowledge his apprehensions. Later, Sergeant Parks presented OCP with evidence that No Gain was highly-addictive and responsible for a rise in violent crime. This prompted the Chairman to order No Gain's recall.[3]

The Chairman felt it necessary to subject Old Detroit to power rationing, prompting Diana Powers to appear to him, voicing disapproval for the Chairman's decision. Pointing out that he failed to serve the people of Old Detroit, Diana set up the Chairman to go for a ride-along with RoboCop.[4]

His first remark upon seeing the community was that the insurance companies must have been exploiting it, to which RoboCop stated that OCP owned the companies in question. Responding to an alert from a destroyed ATM, the Chairman was dismayed to find that it had belonged to his own company.[4]

Upon hearing gunfire, RoboCop took the Chairman to the scene, finding the Stompers descending upon a vehicle containing Joe and Ami Avery alongside their ailing son, Josh. As RoboCop confronted the gang, the Chairman fled from RoboCop's TurboCruiser as a plow truck ran over the cruiser and RoboCop. The Chairman and Joe came to the significantly damaged RoboCop's aid, with the Chairman claiming to be a journalist named Mr. Jones.[4]

Upon arrival at the Averys' hideout, the Chairman took note of a Turbo-Generator developed by Joe in response to the intermittent power outages. A friend to the Averys, Norton, immediately recognized the Chairman and tried to attack him, exposing his identity as Joe stopped the attack.[4]

Once Joe suggested traveling to Metro South to inform them of RoboCop's location, the Chairman offered to go in his stead, feeling that Joe belonged with his family. The Chairman did not make it very far, however, before being attacked by a Stomper. Norton came to his rescue and the Chairman returned to the hideout. When Joe expressed doubts about his ability to fully repair the cyborg, the Chairman was first to encourage him, confident in his ability. When Joe noted that RoboCop would need to be shut down for full restoration, the Chairman became concerned that RoboCop would lose his identity of Murphy. Murphy responded to these concerns with "To be human is to risk."[4]

RoboCop's repairs were completed in the morning and fought off the Stompers, with the Chairman backing him up alongside Norton and Joe. Once the gang was defeated by RoboCop and police backup, the Chairman brushed off Aubrey Fox's suggestion that the media hail him as a hero, instead checking in on the Averys, assuring them that Josh would receive the lung transplant he needed. He further expressed interest in Joe's Turbo-Generator. He then checked in with RoboCop, confirming that he still was Murphy.[4]

The Chairman went out of his way to ensure that Josh would receive his transplant, a promise he made clear to the MediaBreak audience. After Josh's transplant was a success, the Chairman assured he would advocate for the same treatment for anyone else in Josh's position.[5]

After the Chairman and Vice President of Omni Militech Eugene Omar showed Omnium to a group of military officers, they held a meeting with Detective Madigan. The purpose of this meeting was to detail top-secret items stolen from an Omni Militech warehouse by Hard Company. They showed her a video demonstration of the plasma cannon, a device developed to destroy the electrical systems of enemy technology and personnel.[6]

When Hard Company took over Public Works, threatening to steal the Omnium unless details of project Big Sword were released, the Chairman backed up Omar's refusal to give in. The Chairman assured the MediaBreak audience that the situation would be dealt with. Soon, the Chairman demanded Omar's resignation.[6]

The Chairman was initially supportive of the Community Action Patrol (CAP Crew) taking over policing duties of Zone Five, as it reduced the Security Concepts budget by 12.25% and Dr. Newlove's assertion that former criminals made the best police officers.[7]

When it was revealed that the CAP Crew was responsible for the manufacture and distribution of the drug Fun, the Chairman rescinded his support, firing Newlove and reversing newly-instated programming that kept RoboCop from entering the zone.[7]

After learning of a press conference concerning various accusations against Web Care, the Chairman contacted Janet Lewis, who promised him that the accusations were baseless and the situation would be dealt with. After the call was terminated, Diana appeared to the Chairman, saying that Web Care was deceiving him and denying benefits and work to their clients all while making a profit. Upon her suggestion, the Chairman requested the "real" financial data for Web Care.[8]

Learning that Web Care had cheated citizens out of pension benefits and that Lewis was funneling money to her own personal bank account, the Chairman went to the Web Care headquarters to confront her and Martin. After informing them that they had been terminated from OCP and their bank accounts had been seized, the Chairman left for the press conference.[8]

After telling RoboCop he was shutting down Web Care, the Chairman joined the press conference, saying that he was initially unaware of Web Care's true activities and he would be closing them. He also added that he would help get Provision 22 repealed. RoboCop then saved the conference from an attack by Harry Flitch, under the orders of Web Care. This prompted the Chairman to order the arrests of Martin and Lewis.[8]

After Dr. Apollinaire Monet of the Aesthetica division presented Eve, a device that could alter one's appearance, the Chairman was skeptical upon learning it would only work for up to three hours. However, he approved the product once Monet explained the limit was made in order for customers to buy it again and assured it was safe to use.[9]

Pudface Morgan entered the Chairman's office, having used Eve to disguise himself as Sergeant Parks. Morgan tied him to his chair, then took on the appearance of the Chairman, using it to pass a retinal scan to access his files. Morgan activated RoboCop's termination command sequence, causing the cyborg to fall when he entered the office to arrest Morgan. Morgan left the room to attend a meeting as the Chairman while RoboCop managed to contact Diana Powers, who contacted Charlie to reverse the termination sequence. Morgan eventually returned, allowing RoboCop to apprehend him.[9]

After RoboCop shielded Tori Tolan from would-be assassin, she contacted the Chairman with the intention of gaining the cyborg from OCP as part of a business deal. He resisted the idea, so she threatened to hold Cryo-Fuel from OCP's Space-Tram project and blackmailed him with her knowledge that he had engaged in insider trading. The Chairman relented, allowing her to use RoboCop as a bodyguard, ensuring the delivery of Cryo-Fuel.[10]

As the Chairman awaited the launch of Space-Tram, Tolan and RoboCop made an emergency call to the Chairman to tell him that Cryo-Fuel needed more testing. With this information, the Chairman ordered a delay to the Space-Tram launch.[10]

With anti-corporate terrorism on the rise, the Chairman denied rumors that OCP would be moving like the German company Tutonicor. Instead, he organized the Anti-Corporate Terrorism Squad (ACT Squad), led by Stewart Granger. He unveiled this team at a celebration for OCP's 50th anniversary, where a bomb threat was made by disgruntled ex-employee Felix Webber. RoboCop soon arrived, disarming the bomb. The ACT Squad failed to stop the next two of Webber's bombings, prompting the Chairman to warn Granger to not fail again.[11]

When Webber had a bomb inside the OCP towers, he demanded to speak with the Chairman. He made no demands other than revenge, then set the bomb to detonate in five minutes. In order to help distract Webber, Russell Murphy had Madigan and Parks pretend to arrest the Chairman for stealing Webber's research, firing him without proper cause, environmental destruction, consumer gouging, and selling faulty products, the last of which he took legitimate offense to.[11]

Following a ratings boost for Inside Crime following the appearance of both RoboCop and Pudface Morgan, the Chairman cautioned Rochelle Carney and Fox against manipulating show show to continue this success. After RoboCop and Pudface appeared on the same episode the following week, the Chairman grew suspicious that there was some sort of collusion with Pudface. Carney and the Inside Crime crew claimed innocence and left.[12]

The Chairman met with Carney, Madigan, and Fox to discuss Inside Crime. During this meeting, they were taken hostage by Pudface's men live on Inside Crime. Carney admitted collusion and said she would resign, while Fox admitted to an inappropriate relationship with Carney, prompting the Chairman to demote him to Public Relations. RoboCop and Parks soon arrived with other policemen, saving the Chairman and the other hostages.[12]

The Chairman attended the opening ceremony of Omni Mall, where Commander Cash was to make an appearance. Unexpectedly, Tex Jones knocked out the actual actor hired for the job and put on the Commander Cash costume. Jones told the children everything in the mall was free, causing chaos as the children took everything they could get their hands on at a nearby toy store. The Chairman and the Vice President of Children's Marketing and Entertainment Simon Atwater tried to stop the children, but were powerless.[13]

The Chairman later attended the opening of a day care center, where he witnessed the arrest of Atwater, who had subjected the children of Delta City to mind control through Commander Cash Super Flakes.[13]

Parks approached the Chairman with evidence on a plot to assassinate him at the unveiling of the Interceptor Mark II. Parks recommended the Chairman cancel his appearance at the event, but he declined. Instead, RoboCop was assigned to guard him and successfully helped thwart the plot, saving the Chairman.[14]

When J. Michael Trenton proposed to the Chairman that they make RoboCop more ruthless in order to curtail illegal gambling so the OCP lottery could flourish. The Chairman rejected the idea completely, feeling it would harm OCP's image. In response, Trenton unleashed his Tin Man project, when had turned Timothy Malloy into a mindless, obedient vigilante. Trenton pointed out the drop in illegal gambling rates, prompting the Chairman to show him a What's On Your Mind? interview with crime bosses Vladimir Molotov and Reggie Braga, who announced their plans to join forces. The Chairman pointed out that the vigilante inadvertently created Detroit's largest crime syndicate in history and estimated that the rates of illegal gambling would go up.[15]

On the way back to the OCP headquarters, the Chairman and his driver, Queensbury, here confronted by a group of protestors from the Women for the Overthrow of Male Bastions (WOMB). After passing through the non-violent protestors, a group of Rad Femmes attacked the Chairman and Queensbury, vandalizing the car. RoboCop soon arrived, placing Willa Sweet and Punk under arrest.[16]

As he practiced a speech with Fox, the Chairman received word that the Rad Femmes were there for an unannounced meeting with him. He had his secretary send them in, feeling it would be good to try and settle their differences. The Rad Femmes arrived with Chip Chayken dressed in drag. Once the Chairman sent Fox out to give his secretary the rest of the day off, the Chairman was dressed in drag and smuggled out of the building by the Rad Femmes.[16]

At the Rad Femmes' apartment, the Chairman was forced to perform household chores to make him feel the way oppressed women do. Rochelle Carney entered and the Chairman was shocked to see that she was in on the plot. Later, as he vacuumed, the Chairman tried to escape by dumping the sweeper bag on the Rad Femmes before bolting for the door. However, he was caught before he could get out of the door.[16]

Eventually, Detective Madigan was captured and handcuffed to the Chairman. They managed to subdue the Rad Femmes so Madigan could arrest them and the Chairman could rush to a meeting where OCP faced potential takeover by Vetrocomp Industries. Feeling more sympathetic to the feminist cause, the Chairman announced a fifteen percent discount on OCP products for women.[16]

When RoboCop and Parks investigated the theft of a Heartbreaker device from Mirsky Microwave, the Chairman confirmed that OCP had subcontracted Mirsky to create a non-lethal, laser-guided microwave gun. Wilson Eberhart entered and confirmed that the Heartbreaker could be used for lethal means. The Chairman asked for the Heartbreaker to be recovered and for a supposed breach in MetroNet to be solved.[17]

The Chairman was a prominent donor to the Big Business Buddies (BBB), a charity that catered to corporate-minded young people. He attended a BBB awards ceremony, presenting the award for the Best Essay on the Importance of Business Language in Corporate Society to Jimmy Murphy. Roger John Waldo convinced the Chairman to attend another BBB ceremony the following evening.[1]

The next evening, after dressing in the traditional BBB uniform, the Chairman was led into the BBB headquarters by Waldo. However, there was truly no ceremony and he was led to the office of Tessa Stark, who sought revenge against the Chairman and OCP, believing that he reported her to the police purely because she was more likely to become OCP Chairperson. She then revealed to him that she founded the BBB to deliberately attract his attention and more, importantly, his money.[1]

Shortly after Russell Murphy arrived, Tessa and a pair of her loyal Corporate Raiders took the Chairman and Murphy to a substation, where she set up equipment to intercept stock trades and cause OCP's stock to plummet. She additionally planned to kill the Chairman and Russell, planning to stage it as a murder-suicide and frame the Chairman for the bombing she committed. Soon, RoboCop came to their rescue and the Chairman asked if anyone had a phone so he could halt trades in OCP stock.[1]

The Chairman was impressed by Billy Sullivan's Law Enforcement Agency Data Exchange Relay (L.E.A.D.E.R.), a database designed for use by all law enforcement agencies across the planet. His enthusiasm for the project was validated by District Attorney Richard Gless giving it his full approval.[18]

The Chairman eagerly awaited the arrival of the President of the United States, who was to present OCP with the Corporation of the Year Award. He agreed to give the Secret Service led by Bob L. McGrew OCP's full cooperation as far as security for the event. Leading up to the event, Foster was kidnapped by Pudface Morgan. After being rescued, he told the Chairman, RoboCop, and Madigan that Pudface was plotting something to occur at the ceremony. The Chairman also revealed that he had received a message which indicated that OCP's stock would be dropping.[19]

The Chairman met the President and First Gentleman at the ceremony, which was saved by RoboCop and Madigan from a bombing planned by Pudface, Chayken, and Cray Mallardo.[19]

Personality[]

In overseeing Delta City, he came across more as a father to the city rather than an owner or dictator like the Old Man. Unlike most OCP officials, he had sense of ethics but was unaware of the many shady actions happening right under him. He was also shown to be ignorant about the living conditions of the common people such as in Old Detroit. During a ride-along Diana Powers suggested he take with RoboCop, the Chairman seemed quite happy with the way things were. However, after being trapped with a family that lived in fear of a local gang whilst needing a transplant for their child, the Chairman became more sympathetic to Old Detroit's citizens. He also showed genuine concern towards RoboCop, affectionately addressing him as Murphy and "my boy" in private.

The Chairman had the ability to alter RoboCop's programming or even terminate him from a computer console built into his desk. The only downside to this was that Pudface Morgan was once able to activate it with the use of Eve.

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