Character from Severance by Dan Erickson
Lumon's current CEO — the man who stole the credit for severance from Cobel and sent his own daughter in as a test subject to prove the procedure was humane.
Jame Eagan is the eighth Eagan CEO, ruling since 2003. He inherited both a corporation and a cult, and he maintains both with the steady hand of someone who has never questioned whether his family's work is right. He stole the credit for inventing severance from Harmony Cobel. He sent his daughter Helena into the severed floor as a PR campaign. He communicates through intermediaries and the Board. He is the invisible hand — the power that makes the system run without ever appearing to get his own hands dirty. His daughter's imprisonment is, to him, a marketing strategy. His employees' suffering is, to him, the cost of progress. He is not dramatically evil. He is bureaucratically evil, which is worse because it scales.
A polished executive presence — the kind of person who looks composed in every photograph and whose authority comes from lineage rather than charisma. He carries the weight of the Eagan name with practiced ease.
Also known as: CEO Eagan