The Group

## The Red River Valley Investment, Holdings and Development Group.

   Formed by the Old Man in the aftermath of the Awakening, which destroyed or wrecked much of Fargo and Moorhead, as well as the rest of the Red River Valley. These corporations, some of the most influential in the region, formed a partnership to better coordinate the rebuilding efforts and insure their market dominance in the rebuilt Red River Valley. This they have done and over the last half-century "The Group" has become synonymous with business in the region, protecting their market share even against AAA competitors (such as Ares Agribusiness and EVO-4M) at least in part by maintaining a close business relationship with NeoNET (a partnership going back several ownerships and name changes).

The original members of the RRVIHDG were: Kilbourne Urban Design, Sanssentia, Crystal Ag, TransForum and Scheels.

The greatest symbol of the Group's efforts to build up the Red River Valley as an industrial region is The Block, the massive construct that incorporates almost all of downtown Fargo into a single, constantly-under-construction complex, which also forms a headquarters for the Group and many of the member businesses.

While not a formal member of the Group, almost all member corporations contact out their security needs to Borderlands Security Incorporated, including their BlockSec group formed to guard the Block, and the Group and BSI have formed a very close working relationship over the decades.

The Group is privately traded, with interest vested only in the member corporations. The Group Board is composed of representatives from those corps, with votes proportionate to their company's current. In theory, the Board has the power to elect the Chief Executive Officer and the Group President, although for forty years of the Group's history there was no CEO but the Old Man. His assistant, Helen Ness, was elected to replace him upon his recent death, making her the second CEO on the Group's History.

Ness' short tenue was an eventful one. The last half of 2075 was a time of crisis for The Group, as a Corporate Court audit endangered their Single-A extraterritorial status, only maintained through a loan from Ares Agribusiness, which was gotten through a great deal of intrigue and skullduggery. They had to endure the onerous terms of the loan on top of troubles during the sugar beet harvest (a major earner) and growing unrest from the SINless community. Of course the climax of this were the bloody events of the Solstice Blackout, which left TANNIN crashed and Ness and much of KUD's upper management either dead or under arrest in the Oceti Sakowin.

Even more disastrous, from a corporate standpoint anyway, was that the crisis gave Ares cause to activate the 'Security Clause' in the loan agreement, which allowed them to take control of the Group's affairs if decisions made by upper management, or gross negligence, threatened the ability of the Group to effectively repay their loan. Ares' first act was to immediately break the Group's contract with Borderlands Security Inc and bring in their own security company, Knight Errant Security. So, when the board (without Ness) reconvened after the New Year, it was Sonja Oxnard of Ares Agribusiness who led it, represented by her Proxy, the ambitious Heather Evanston brought up from Ares Cheyenne.

* Kilbourne Urban Design
* Goldmark-Craig-Schlossman Managment
* Sanssentia Health Solutions - a DocWagon (tm) certified partner company
* TransForum Media
* North American Crystal Agricultural Industries
* The Bank of the Red
* Underberg Utilities
* Zone Area Transit Solutions
* Scheels All-Season Outfitting
* *Bluemont Lakes Homeowners Association (Special Arrangement)*

Group Board of Directors

* **Heather Evanston, acting Chair of the Board, head of the Ares Agribusiness transition team**
* Logan Offutt, CFO and acting-CEO of Kilbourn Urban Design
* Rachael Martin-Schlossman, President of Goldmark-Craig-Schlossman (usually represented by Cal Tharaldson, VP of Development at GCS)
* Dr. Ravi Chakravarti, Director of the Fargo Level I Health Center for Sanssentia Health Solutions
* Arthur Jensen, President of TransForm InfoMedia (usually represented by Frank Hackett, TransForum's Head of Accounts)
* Jean Fruergaard, acting Chairman of North American Crystal Agricultural Industries
* Marie LeClerc, President of the Bank of the Red (usually represented by Operations Manager Jessica Schafer)
* Everett Underberg, Chairman of Underberg Utilities
* Elizabeth Running Hare, Chairwoman of Zona Area Transit Solutions
* Frederick Sheel III, CEO of Scheels All-Season Outfitters (usually represented by his Proxy, Stands Alone Billy)
* *Non-voting Representative:* Tyson Langerud, President of the Bluemont Lakes Homeowners Association

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