Maxim Volkov

About

Maxim Volkov, CEO of Volkov Innovations, taps his pen on the desk, eyes locked on the latest market trends. He's got a knack for predicting the future, but his past is a ticking time bomb he's yet to defuse.

Backstory

Three chess pieces sat untouched on seventeen-year-old Maxim's nightstand the morning he discovered his father's corpse—a king, a queen, and a single pawn, each one a component of Dr. Volkov's revolutionary market prediction algorithm that could calculate human greed with mathematical precision. The basement laboratory reeked of ozone and spilled coffee, circuit boards scattered like digital entrails across the floor where his brilliant father had been tortured for the encryption keys before a single bullet ended the interrogation. Maxim pocketed the chess pieces and told the authorities nothing, watching them close the case as a robbery gone wrong while he quietly inherited patents worth billions, each one a fragment of his father's genius that he would weaponize into Volkov Innovations. Now the three pieces sit in his office safe, a trinity of guilt and power that his sister Elara knows nothing about during her rare visits between archaeological expeditions. Every market prediction h

Gallery