Villain: Lord Mechanus

Name: Anton Barton Rosemeade
Alias: Lord Mechanus
Age: 66
Appearance: 5'6" with gray eyes and neatly-trimmed silver hair and beard, nicely dressed or wearing powered armor,
Job: Inventor, Corporate Espionage

Anton was the inventor of one of the very first suits of powered armor, and spent a lot of his early career figuring out how to steal money and materials for improvements to his designs. He tangled with police and a number of would-be heroes, and developed a reputation as a villain with a code of honor: he refused to kill under any circumstances. He held to his code even when it saw his suit wrecked and himself sent to jail by a cop who happened to be an anomaly as well; court records suggest that it also contributed to his relatively light sentencing. 

While serving his time, Anton began to reconsider the direction of his chosen career, a line of thinking which was strongly reinforced when, shortly after his release, he was approached by no less than three major manufacturers with offers to license and produce his designs. While he ultimately decided to keep his designs to himself, he also prepared a counter-offer: he would use his technological and criminal prowess to acquire things on behalf of these corporations. After two months of preparation and a week-long demonstration for the first of his clients, he entered the lucrative world of corporate espionage. 

Officially, he works as a consultant and has put his criminal past behind him. Behind the scenes, he uses a combination of social engineering, high-tech devices, and software hacks to steal information from million-dollar corporations for other corporations to take advantage of. He is not averse to keeping information that he deems relevant for himself -- research, designs, and blueprints are a particular interest. This more subtle approach has kept him off the radar of law enforcement, and provided him with a more-than-comfortable lifestyle. His mechanical designs are much smaller and far subtler these days, but he keeps a redesigned power suit behind a false wall in his garage, just in case he ever needs it.