Connor McNulty

A large shareholder of The Vanguard, as well as CEO of MNBE. He is remarkably charismatic and appears to be in his mid to late 30s, despite being in his early 40s.

History
Mr. McNulty grew up poor and fatherless in Boston, MA. His mother died shortly after his eleventh birthday, but he wouldn't let anything stop him in attaining his goal: recognition. Connor was a brilliant student and loved by his classmates. Even as a child, he proved to be a shrewd businessman, when he would constantly come up with ways to earn some extra cash for a second chocolate milk at lunch.

He ended up going to university and getting a business degree, before starting up a company of his own. In 1975, when he was just 20 years old, he made a risky investment into a previously untapped market: superheroes. He paired-up with Captain Fission, a Vietnam War veteran and Parahuman, to found The Vanguard, a centralised organisation to control the rampant vigilantism problem plaguing America.

Over the next couple of years, he amassed loads wealth through good business dealings, advertising and investing, and soon found himself on the front page of The New York Times. It felt to him that he became a celebrity overnight, but he also knew the pitfalls to avoid, so he never lost his innate frugality.

In the 1980s, he began donating to charities and even founded several of his own, mostly around helping children from single parent households and women escaping abusive relationships.

In the year 1993, he personally funded an experimental project called "The Matou Initiative", named after Grace Matou, a young hero who was killed in action while investigating the notorious San Francisco villain, Bos'n. This project was to build an academy for powered youths to earn a degree and train to become "super heroes". The Matou Initiative is now known as the Zarathustra Parahuman Academy, and is the primary setting for the first season of World of Heroes.

Story
Connor has shown up several times in World of Heroes, usually just to give a speech or something, but in Session 12, he welcomed The Watchdogs to the Vanguard HQ in Washington, D.C. following their arrest at the Doom Disciples base. He told them not to worry about legal troubles and that he was impressed by their heroic spirit. Unlike everyone else, he didn't reprimand them on acting on their guts, instead encouraging it saying: "Isn't that what a hero does? Why wait when you can act!"