Little to nothing is known about the Ghost's past history. Ghost was something of a legend in the electronics industry, but few who heard about the story, including industrialist Tony Stark. That is, until Carrington Pax, which was a Roxxon Oil Corporation executive hired the Ghost to drive Accutech Research and Development, an electronics firm in financial trouble, into bankruptcy. Roxxon had attempted to purchase Accutech, but that firm's executives wanted nothing to do with the disreputable Roxxon. Pax hoped that the sabotage the Ghost did would further damage Accutech's financial standing, making it more amenable to Roxxon's next offer of purchase.