Porter C. Powell

Porter C. Powell is the chairman of the board of directors for Sumdac Systems. A very unscrupulous man, Powell has long sought to take control of the company away from its founder Professor Sumdac. Predominantly he wants Sumdac Systems to enter the weapons development market. To these ends Powell secretly carried out a number of schemes to take over, including funding the experiments of Prometheus Black to create bio-engineered super-soldiers.

When Professor Sumdac was kidnapped by Megatron, his daughter Sari took over even though the board unanimously voted for Powell to take over, much to Powell's chagrin. Powell however was able to seize control of Sumdac Systems from her by proving she was not really Professor Sumdac's daughter. Since then he hired criminal scientist Henry Masterson to begin building war-machines. After the Autobots rescue Professor Sumdac from Megatron, one of Sumdac's first actions upon returning to his company was to fire Powell as well as Masterson.