RENRAKU COMPUTER SYSTEMS

Corporation Profile

Logan Graves (Fenris@BigKnobiKlub.virtualAve.net)

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RENRAKU COMPUTER SYSTEMS


PROFILE:                                        MAJOR INTERESTS:
  Home Office         Chiba, Japan                Aerospace                   3
  President / CEO     Inazo Aneki                 Agriculture                 6
  Chairman of Board   Yukiako Watanabe            Biotechnology               6
  Corporation Status  Public Corporation          Chemicals                   5
MAJOR SHAREHOLDERS:                               Computer Engineeering      10
  None                                            Computer Science           10
  (No recorded shareholder                        Consumer Goods              5 
       owns more than 10%)                        Cybernetics                 4
                                                  Entertainment               4 
OPERATIONS:                                       Finance                     5 
  Fiscal Operations    10                         Heavy Industry              5
  Intellignece Opns     6                         Mystical Goods/Services     4
  Management Opns       8                         Military Technology         6
  Reputation            9                         Services                    7 
  Security (general)    8                       MILITARY:
    Magic Security      8                         Overall Unit Size     [None reported]  
    Matrix Security     9                         Training and Quality       n/a      
    Physical Security   7                       NET RATING:                  120

Primary Business

Leaving Fuchi to dominate the brain-computer interface and MCT to concentrate on computer interaction with the physical world, Renraku focuses its resources on the guts of the machine. They make their nuyen in computer data storage and processing.

Renraku holds patents on many fundamental algorithms for data compression, plus storage/retrieval schemes ad systems to handle non-linear equasions. The megacorp continues its research into these areas, frequently licensing its discoveries out to others.

Renraku also operates as a service bureau, leasing computer processing resources, storage space, data transfer/conversion, encryption/decryption, and system analysis/design consultants to paying customers. If a small corp suddenly starts a project requiring more computer processing horsepower than it has in-house, it can rent the extra processing resources from Renraku. In keeping with its role as a service provider, Renraku Seattle maintains SeaSource, the Seattle public data base.

Inazo Aneki's lifelong fascination with experimental sociology has provided the corp with a sideline that might someday become a major money-maker. The CEO's interest in investivating (meta)human societies and cultures in the information age prompted him to set up the Renraku Arcology in Seattle.

Corporate Structure

Renraku Computer Systems appears to have highly diversified ownership. As we mentioned above, the corp has no major shareholders (no one owns a 10 percent block of outstanding shares.) Board chairman Yukiako Watanabe dominates the board, more because of her forceful personality than because of the ammount of stock she owns. On most issues she and Aneki see eys-to-eys, so she lets him run Renraku pretty much as he likes. They disagree most often about Aneki's emphasis on the Seattle Arcology. Though Watanabe sees enough value in it that she's never tried to shut it down, she balks occasionally when Aneki diverts money from Renraku's more profitable divisions to shore up the arcology's sagging finances. In all such cases so far, however, Aneki has convinced her to see his side.

Major Divisions

Renraku organizes its major divisions along regional lines. Individual departments within those divisions specialize by function and/or by region, depending on specific circumstances. The major divisions include, Renraku America, which covers both North and South America; Renraku Asia; Renraku Europa; and Renraku Australasia. In turn, Renraku America has regional subdivisions such as Renraku Seattle and functional subdivisions such as Renraku Pan-System Consulting.

Executives & Big Wigs:

Dr. Sherman Huang
Divisional Manager, Renraku America
Donald Acres
Project Manager, Renraku Arcology
Tev Greenwaldt
Divisional Manager, Renraku Asia
Lucy Don
Divisional Manager, Renraku Australasia
Karl Stadt
Divisional Manager, Renraku Europe

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