BioMass Laboratories Group

Created in Amsterdam around 2014 by Dr. Rijk Leidsplein, backed by the financial acumen of Dieter von Manhoffen-Mass. Their plan was to follow the lead of BioTec & in inventing and producing chipware that affected actual body functions rather then the usual skill/knowledge transfer. It was von Manhoffen-Mass that came up with the idea of making the main office merely a support center for a set of semi-autonomous regional groups.

Most analysts believe that inside knowledge gained during his EC-government service guided him in creating this unusual corporate structure. The corporation was run as a partnership until 2019, when Leidsplein dropped out of sight on a trip to the U.K. At that time, von Manhoffen-Mass restructured the management and brought Dr. Christopher Mitchell on as chief of R&D.

Resources
There are three satellites owned covertly by BioMass through holding companies. These are used mainly for secure communications and corporation-only Net links. They are also used by the security department to keep an eye on the movements of specific employees, executives, and agents via transponder tags either wom on their work clothing or surgically implanted. These transponders are individualized for each person, and are only given to those who are in danger or need to be monitored. The corporation also owns an orbital workstation, close to Crystal Palace. It is a large facility, fully-computerized, with a crew of twenty. The workstation produces "pure" blank chips for their more intricate designs. Each continental head office (Berlin, Atlanta and Tokyo) is a small arcology. They have full hospitals, libraries, schools, training facilities, etc, as has the Mexico R&D base. The Berlin office also has an extensive med facility that can do cyberware emplacement up to full-body replacements.

Reference
EdgeRunners Inc (pages 70-71)