Philip Granatov
"I once fucked a can of chef boyardee ravioli's."
General Information
Philip Olegovich Granatov, male aged sixty-one years old. Birthday on the twenty-second of June, 1988. Fluent in Russian, English, and Arabic.
History
Born to a family of engineer-chemists in Moscow, Philip's great grandfather on his mother's line was an enterpreneur and owner of a factory which was taken away from him after the revolution. Both of his parents worked at the same factory 'Calibre', which produced oil drilling equipment. After the great collapse, Gazprom forced Calibre's owner to sign the manufacturing plant off to their man, Viktor Deineka.
By a stroke of luck, Granatov's parents were allowed to keep their jobs, which placed them a rung higher over the millions of unemployed Russians at the time. At the time of the collapse, Philip was twelve years old; excelling in arithmetics and chemistry. In 2005 his father died after a long and bitter battle with lung cancer.
Before he passed, Philip's mother took hard and necessary steps to ensure her son's future, becoming Deineka's mistress. Viktor noticed Philip's academic successes and took him in as a protege.
After graduating from Moscow's elite economic institute (paid for by his mentor,) he worked in Sberbank as a clerk, and then off on business trips to abroad as Deineka's personal secretary. Following Granatov's thirtieth birthday, Deineka gifted him 8% of Surgutneftegaz' former assets in Eastern Siberia.
The newly gifted capital allowed Philip to set his plans into motion. Now a well versed economist and investor, Granatov developed a project on effectively cleaving away the biological destruction left after Volga's hydrostations and water reserves were left unmanned and untended to.
He presented the management committee with the project, which would partially resurrect the cascade of hydrostations that were once the backbone of Soviet energy industry. In exchange, of course, he'd be given 10% of shares from each of the stations and reserves. In 2024 the project was complete, and Philip founded Rosmedia, an information agency through which he relayed information aligning with Gazprom's PR.
In the year 2026 Granatov's mother died, followed by Deineka dying two years later due to poor health in an expensive german hospital. Viktor's death set off a brief power struggle between the senior colleagues of the board of directors.
The deputy chairman at the time, Savonov, was killed in his car by a radio controlled missile. Granatov visited Savonov's widow and said that if she didn't sign the control stock over to him, he would release the blackmail he had on her husband posthumously. If she agreed, he promised a two story house at the beach in Crimea for her and her daughter.
She signed the papers, and was later found drowned at sea. Philip, meanwhile, became the Deputy Chairman of Gazprom. The king of the hill.
Personality
Philip is an introverted individual. He appreciates his own company just as much, if not more, than others, and does not like to show himself in public, instead relying on 3D animators to create the semblance of public appearances for him by using state-of-the-art computer modeling programs.
In fact, he may be a tad egocentristic; for he views himself not as a man but as a machine - it needs to be thoroughly oiled, polished and fueled to work effectively; as such, he does yoga and judo daily, eating healthy food and doing maths exercises or learning new languages. This way, he considers his body and mind to be well at work.
Under this strict and thought out lifestyle lies a very meticulous and malignant personality. Years spent working and socializing in the upper echelons of Russian society made him to be a cynical man capable of cruelty, if it serves to protect himself and his interests. He is an avid lover of arts, and possesses a very specific kind of humor; dark, sardonic, and scathing.
Relations
He has no wife or child. His lover is a masseuse from Armenia, Nadia. Most of his advisors on the board of directors consider him a calculating man not worth to fight with. His head of security is an ex-commando from Johannesburg - Conrad, probably the only man Philip trusts and considers a friend.
