He was the father of Taylor Townsend and ex- husband of Veronica Townsend. The only mention of him is in The Shape of Things to Come when Summer mentions raffling off a gas guzzling SUV from Taylor's father's dealership, and in an episode in Season 4 where she is trying to convince Ryan to see his father by telling him that her father "lives in San Diego with his new family, and is in Newport once a quarter to check on his car dealership", and tell him that she hasn't spent more than 20 minutes with him since second grade.