Ares Agribusiness

* **Local Office:** 1441 44th St N, Fargo , RRDMZ  58102
* **Senior Officer:**Sr Vice President Sonja Oxnard
* **Status:** Local office for Ares Agribusiness, based out of the Minneapolis-St.Paul Metroplex, a wholly-owned of the AAA Prime Corporation Ares Macrotechnology.
* **Business:**Mainly Agricultural products and processing, with sidelines in agricultural machinery components.
* **Assets:**Ares Agribusiness has acquired ArcticCat and John Deere assets in the Zone as well as the local grocery chain Hornbachers which provides a retail outlet for its agricultural products as well as the usual Ares holdings, including McLovins and the Knight Errant franchises in Fargo and Moorhead. Ares Ag also holds extraterritorial authority for large tracts of agricultural land north of Fargo, 'The Sweetheart Fields'. Ares' status as Lender to the Group and the recent activation of the Security Clause gives Ares full control and Lienholder status over all Group assets (not legal ownership that only happens if the Group defaults, which this move is meant to prevent).

So Ares is pretty much the biggest noise there is back in the MSPlex, and while its not exactly small out here, its influence has always hit a bit of a ceiling inside the 'Zone, a constant frustration for management back in MSPlex and Detroit, largely due to the machinations of Crystal Ag, a member of the the local consortium known as the "The Group". Even NeoNET has a larger presence in the Fargo area than Ares. This was not helped by the fact that the previous head of the Fargo office, old Drew McNally, has been pretty much coasting for years, letting Crystal Ag gain ground (often literally) and even losing control of some of Ares own assets in town. Scuttlebutt is that McNally only kept his job as long as he did because he's an old golfing buddy of Glen Cavendish, head of Ares Agribusiness in Minneapolis.

All this might be changing with the promotion of Fargo-born Sonja Oxnard to replace McNally, who took his long-overdue retirement last year. Young, brilliant, energetic and ambitious, she knows the territory and knows what Cavendish back in Minneapolis expects of her.

Oxnard's first full year has been a turbulent one, with backstabbing from her own office, the (mostly successful) battle to regain the McLovins, a troublesome sugar beet harvest, a number of suspicious murders, rumors of a rogue shadowrunner and finally, the events of the Solstice Blackout, which forced her to activate the Security Clause in Ares' loan agreement with the Group, effectively giving Ares full control over the local conglomerate in order to protect their financial interest when it becomes obvious that current management cannot be trusted to maintain sufficient peace and order to repay the loan (a standard megacorporate agreement). Effectively this makes the Group an unofficial Ares subsidiary and Sonja Oxnard the most powerful person in Fargo.

**Ares Agribusiness - Red River Territory:** Sonja Oxnard

* + **Executive Staff:** Eugene Lone Horse
		- **Special Projects Manager:** Clay Stoddard
	+ **Legal Department:** Niamh Brennan
		- **Compliance Section:** Juliana Mercado
	+ **Production Department:** Roberta 'Bobbi' Walker
		- **Transportation Section:** [*currently unoccupied*]
			* **McLovin's Fargo:** Aubrey McIntyre
				+ **Maintenance:** Isiah Fuentes
			* **Shipping and Receiving Team:** Deborah 'Debbie' Barnes
		- **John Deere Electronic Solutions:** Hunter Dresden
		- **Zone Area Grain Processing:** Timothy Marten
	+ **Public Outreach Department:** Carlo Brunelli
		- **Marketing Section:** Melissa Ross
		- **Sales Section:** Efren Ramos
		- **Hornbacher's:** Charlotte McCoy
	+ **Finance Department:** Becky Larson
		- **Accounts Payable Section:** Marguerite Little Shell
			* **Payroll Office:** Kevin Williams
		- **Accounts Receivable Section:** Wesley Noble
			* **Collections:** Elizabeth 'Borden' Meeks
		- **Investments Section:** Valencia Ryan
		- **Fargo Group Loan Oversight:** Heather Evanston
	+ **Operations Department:** Annie Turcotte
		- **Information Technologies Section:** Madhav Prasad Koirala
		- **Properties Section:** Noreen Bakken
			* **Sweetheart Fields:** Dr. Elaine Delacroix
		- **Administration Section:** Devon Caldwell
			* **Metahuman Resources Office:** Alys Powell
				+ **Recruitment:** Ivan S. Jones
			* **Records Office:** Anson Reynolds

* **Knight Errant Fargo/Moorhead Precinct:** Commander Miles Jungroth
	+ **Knight Errant Fargo Station:** Lieutenant Aline Braga
	+ **Knight Errant Moorhead Station:** Captain John Michael Mikarlson
		- **Information Security Desk:** Tech Sergeant Constance Wright
		- **Astral Security Desk:** Mage-Lieutenant Harukor
		- **Agricultural Security Team:** Sergeant Joan Wagoner
		- **Rapid Response Team:** Lieutenant Russell Tallboy
* **Minn-Kota Ag Products:** [*offsite: Wahpeton*] Gary McNamara

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