Richard Villiers is a Boston-born businessman and one of world's biggest fortune (possibly the second or third richest man in the world, and the richest in the UCAS). He is described as being in his mid-fifties, a man at the height of his powers. He has black hair and his skin has an olive cast. The only obvious cyberware he sports is a datajack, and he reportedly has a photographic memory. He is a charismatic showman and salesman, and a master strategist, knowing exactly when to spring things on people.