User blog comment:Gundam Legilis/Volume 2 Intro In Depth- Penny's Faction/@comment-5054402-20140530150429/@comment-4010415-20140531191214

I'm pretty sure he's not Qrow. I think he runs a company where he builds robots or something, and he probably sells combat robots to the Schnees, hence the robots in the Black Trailer. Given that Penny is likely based on Pinocchio, he's probably based on Geppetto.