Kendra Westby

## Kendra Westby, head of Finance, GCS

* **Name:**Kendra Chelsea Westby
* **Position:**Senior Vice President for Finance for Goldmark-Craig-Schlossman
* **Metatype:**Human  (*Homo sapiens sapiens*)
* **DOB:**7/20/2028, Indianapolis IN, USA (later UCAS )

Kendra Westby is one of those people who you can identify as sort of generically 'corporate' without a trace of specific company identity. Clean, executive, blandly friendly and comfortingly bland, she is the type who fits into any office anywhere in the world.

So at home she looks at GCS's headquarters you would never know you were looking at a woman who's career is on its last chance.

A rising star on the east coast during the 2050's, she took her talent as manipulating numbers and leveraged it to find places at a series of mid-level corporations, Omnilever/KraftHeinz, North American Steel Corp, WFP Financial, the last of which she used to position herself to come on board as a mid-level number cruncher at Novatech when that company was formed out of the still-warm corpse of Fuchi  in 2059. Both loyal and ambitious she thrived cooking the books for some of the slipperiest execs at one of the slipperiest corps of the age. Her work was apparently good enough that she got herself on the quality control teams for Novatech's Initial Public Offering in 2064. Which is where it all went wrong. Because you know what comes next .

The Crash 2.0 caused a lot of heads to roll in Novatech, and Westby's was almost one of them. Junior execs and functionaries like Westby were often scapegoated by their superiors and a lot of them aren't around anymore. That Westby is can mostly be credited to the utter chaos of the Crash. She disappears the week after the Crash and doesn't turn up again until months later, when she is found in Fargo, hiding out in the newly-formed Red River Disputed Military Zone . However, Kendra is nothing if not a survivor and somehow convinced Calvin Tharaldson , the number two man at GCS, to take her on to do the books for his own section. Finding herself back in her natural environment, she's done well at GCS under Cal's patronage, rising quickly to become part of the Accounting department and then up to take the position of Senior Vice President for Finance when the position opened up in 2070. She's spent the time since padding her own nest, keeping her head down and generally backing Cal's plays.

Needless to say, she's been less than joyous about the disappearance of her number two guy, Nelson Klein , in the big kidnapping in the middle of his work on the Corporate Court Audit , forcing her to take his place, as she 's always been careful to keep her face out of the glare of the CC attention.

Since surviving the Solstice Blackout (she was working late in the GCS offices in the Block at the time and claims to have missed most of the worst of it), Kendra has been a bit of a rising star, making all the right friends at The Group. As the highest-ranking GCS officer working from their offices in the Block, Kendra is usually the one attending the Group's Board meetings for GCS these days, which gives her a lot of face time with a lot of other local movers and shakers. And if Kendra Westby is anything, it is an opportunist.

After a series of.. well, let's be generous and call them 'sketchy' events surrounding the first Quarter 2076 Group shareholder's meeting (which included her being handcuffed in the basement of the Block by 'person or persons unknown'!), she has decided to take an indefinite leave of absence from her position for 'health reasons' (rumor has it at the request of Rachael Schlossman-Martin herself!). What this actually means and what Kendra's actually doing at this point is anyone's guess...

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