User blog comment:Maki Kuronami/Volume 2 Speculation: New characters/@comment-3257939-20140523052419

I think that man is the CEO of a big company that fabricates robots for security like the ones bought by the Schnee Dust Company to protect their cargos. And since Penny may be based on Pinochoo, then, she could have been built by the man in the front who wanted a daugther but couldn't have one so instead he created it.