Stark Industries

Stark Industries is a multinational industrial company owned by Tony Stark, and is the largest tech conglomerate in the world.[1] Founded in 1939 by Howard Stark, the elder Stark ran the company from its inception up until his death in 1991, after which Obadiah Stane was appointed interim CEO. with Tony Stark officially assuming the position shortly after at the age of 21.

Under Stark's control, the company flourished financially for nearly two decades; however, when Stark discovered that Stane was selling their weapons to terrorist groups around the world, he shut down their lucrative weapons division. In 2010, Stark appointed Pepper Potts as the company's CEO after realizing that he was dying from palladium poisoning[2], a position Stark allowed Potts to maintain after he engineered his own recovery.