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Demidova Corporation is the fastest-growing corporation on Earth in the Demon Accords novel series.
History[]
The company had offices around the world and operated as a diversified group of businesses that were radically different. Tatiana Demidova had formed Demidova Corporation from businesses she had already owned and accumulated during her silent teenage years.
The skeleton of the company was a real estate empire that owned offices in London and Hong Kong, shale deposits in Texas and South Dakota, and apartment complexes around the world. It was accessorized by nanotech startups in Germany, Japan, and upstate New York, a software company in Ireland, biotech research facilities in Israel, France, and Germany, and a Chinese solar panel production plant that Tatiana Demidova owned a majority of in Beijing.
The IPO (Initial Public Offering) for Demidova Corporation had been the year’s most anticipated event on Wall Street, and every investor on the planet had wanted in on the company owned, started, and run by Chris Gordon and Tatiana Demidova. The price of the stock had rocketed to stratospheric heights purely on the momentum generated by the constant replay of the Battle of Washington. Analysts have discussed the solid cash flow generated by the real estate and energy plays while speculating on the possibilities of the biotech innovations that vampire biology was to provide and the firm’s unique ability to clean up extra-dimensional incursions of the demonic kind which Demidova Corporation have charged pretty heavy for those especially to large, developed nations that had engaged in the kind of particle physics experimentation that had been proven to erode the space-time barriers across the multiverse we had found ourselves in that lead to demonic incursions and smaller, less wealthy countries got big discounts and corporations engaged in similar particle physics activities got really large bills for Demidova Corporation ectoplasmic cleanup costs.
They have a quantum computing project that was successful and produced Omega.
Building Description[]
- Demidova Tower: The building is made of stone and concrete. It has more than forty floors. The computers that controlled the elevators are warded, as are the automatic brakes inside the shafts and the motor control units high atop the building. There are at least four floors underground that serve as the quarters for the vampires. The executive offices were at the top of the building, but the sleeping apartments were deep underground. The entire Demidova Tower was warded by Declan O'Carroll/Declan Irwin against the ANVIL program, and that also includes the satellite offices. Since Declan warded the building, it will also keep the building from ever catching fire, would probably survive an earthquake, and flying objects will miss it, such as planes or missiles. It is considered a business building.
- Lobby: The lobby is a vast, open space dominated by massive, gleaming stone columns that reached three stories high and a polished granite floor. It also has a seating area and a reception desk.
- Executive Suite Rooms/Sleeping Quarters/Vampire Quarters: The bedroom was bigger than the one at Arcane, a living room with a big flatscreen and game console, a mini-kitchenette with a microwave, sink, and refrigerator stocked with cold drinks such as ice-cold energy drinks, and a big bathroom with a bigger tiled shower with three showerheads. The shower had a sound system that you could plug your phone into, and the three heads pulsed water in time to whatever music was playing from the phone. The suite didn’t have any windows because it was underground. The gym is on the first level of the living quarters.
- Corporate Dining Hall: It took up almost the whole eleventh floor. The actual dining room was bigger than the gym at College Arcane and was very posh. It looked so expensive that people sometimes think they are in the wrong place. You can get a window seat or an interior seat.
- Computer Center: It takes up the whole tenth floor, and it was warded by Declan O'Carroll/Declan Irwin. The back half of the computer center had a sealed section with walls and an armored door. There is also a basket that stands on a stand near the door with a sign above it that says, 'Deposit all electronics here. No cell phones, tablets, cameras, watches, wearable or personal technology past this point.'
- Board Room: The board room was almost over the top, according to Declan O'Carroll because of a huge, polished table dominating a massive room with plush carpeting, expensive vases, and sculptures around the perimeter, one whole wall clad in hand-fitted sheets of dark green marble, and "Demidova Corporation" in ten-inch-tall gold-plated letters against the deep, rich marble. Twelve chairs encircled the table, five per side, with one at each end. A separate desk with a mounted monitor and keyboard sat just adjacent to one end of the table, which is used by Lydia. Tatiana Demidova's spot as Chairman and CEO was at the end seat nearest Lydia’s secretary’s desk. There is a small group of chairs that occupy the same side of the room as the mini-fridge, sink, and espresso maker.
- Special Project Section: It covers the entire floor of the building, and at the back of the floor is a secure section that has a steel door that requires voice and face recognition as well as Chet’s ID card. Items such as cell phones and watches go into a basket outside the door.
- Apartment Section: There is an elevator that leads into a long hallway whose floor was concrete patterned to look like slabs of rock. The hallway had doors to individual apartments that broke up the walls in a long series that ended with a single massive iron-bound door that is gothic-looking and a vampire guard wearing a sword who is named David Lo and is part of the Outer Guard. The hall has artwork that took up space on the expanses of sheetrock that didn’t have doors.
- Queen's/Tatiana Demidova Quarters: The inside of the apartment is just eclectic. It has a rustic hand-crafted twig rocking chair in the corner, Hudson Bay blanket draped over the back of the leather sofa, a coffee table made from an iron-wheeled industrial dolly, concrete kitchen countertops, granite tile kitchen floor, copper range hood, black appliances, a gas fireplace, a reclaimed barn beam mantle, a Japanese long and short sword set racked on a long, thin table behind the sofa, a flatscreen television hung above the fireplace mantle, Turkish rugs on the floor, cast iron stools at the kitchen island, a six-person dining table with steel legs, and a reclaimed barn wood top. It was one big, great room, combining the kitchen, dining room, and family room. Doorways led off to the bedroom and bathroom.
Employees[]
- Attorney
- Darion Cornell (corporate legal counsel)
- Waiters (for the dining hall)
- Hostess (for the dining hall)
- Vampires
- Tatiana Demidova
- Arkady Barsukov
- Nika
- Lydia Chapman
- Katrina Westing (VP)
- Lydia (EVP)
- Celeste (receptionist and Tanya's assistant)
- Dr. Singh (corporate doctor)
- Interns: Some include comp sci kids.
- Declan O'Carroll (summer intern to Chris Gordon)
- Grace (summer intern who comes highly recommended from the University of Melbourne)
- Simon (a summer intern who is starting his first year of graduate work at MIT)
- Aleesha (summer intern who is friends with Grace)
- Joni (summer intern who is friends with Grace)
- Daiyu (summer intern from Peking University)
- Josh (he is slender and slightly bookish, with dark glasses and a pinstripe suit complete with suspenders; he was one of Tatiana Demidova's whiz kids, a young MBA straight out of Wharton who had a dazzling intellect for numbers and accounting.)
- Demidova Security and Security Team's: They wear a black uniform with uniform pants.
- Andrew (guard at the reception desk)
- Joe (guard at the reception desk)
- Morgan (guard in the garage booth in the underground parking garage)
- Chet (Chief IT guy/Chief Technology Officer)
- Technicians
- Programmers
- Bathroom Attendant (exec washroom)
- Board Members: A unique group of board members, which includes Chris Gordon and Tatiana Demidova. It has department heads and corporate officers.
- Galina Demidova: An attractive pale brunette who is the mother to Tatiana Demidova. She looks nearly thirty but is older than the United States on account of being a vampire.
- Brock Mallek: He is a tall, wide-shouldered man in his early thirties with dark hair and dark eyes. He is the CEO of Lupine Industries. He is also the Alpha of the New York Pack, which Stacia Reynolds belongs to. He has been a friend of Chris Gordon since he arrived in the Big Apple.
- Dustin Cryor: He is twenty-something with a smug look and an expensive watch. He dresses much more casually than any of the other board members. His casual attire probably cost more than Declan O'Carroll's laptop. Dustin Cryor is the founder of Crytech Cybersecurity, Incorporated. He bought a bunch of stock when it went public and got his business cronies to do the same to get him a big enough block to get him on the board.
- Ian Smitwick: He is a vampire who is a British investor who also has his fingers in many pies around the world. He has a pair of pale, icy blue eyes. He is scary sharp because it's his vampire power to perceive stuff.
- Dr. Raj Singh: He is an Indian vampire. He is a board member and Chief Medical Officer of Demidova Inc.
- Dr. Wade Pitcairn: He is a human and a tall male who is a Columbia professor who teaches classes in folklore, theology, and occult myths and legends.
- Dr. Dieter Bernhard: Ph.D. Doctorate in Applied Nanotechnology.
- Alexandra Vincent: She is a female vampire with brown hair and scars on the sides of her neck and face. She is Outer Guard.
- Humans
- Susskins
- Benson
- A floor full of high-level hackers.
- Security Team: The security team has skills that rival the NSA’s, and they get paid better.
Locations/Facilities[]
- Demidova Tower:
- Underground Parking/Garage/Garage Booth
- Lobby
- Reception Desk
- Seating Area/Waiting Area
- Executive Suite and Executive Suite Rooms
- Bank of Elevators
- Corporate Cafeteria
- Access Stairs
- Vampire Quarters
- Queen's Quarters
- Underground Floors
- Executive Offices
- Sleeping Apartments
- Corporate Dining Hall/Corporate Dining Room
- Special Project Room/Special Project Section
- Computer Center
- Medical Research Floors on Four and Five
- Call Center
- Business Center
- Exec washroom
- Chet's office/lab
- Gym
- Board room on the forty-fifth (45th) floor.
- Girls' locker room
- Computing Center
- Executive Floor
- Utility Room
- Demidova World Headquarters
- Remote Centers
- Satellite Offices Around The World
- Real Estate Offices
- Shale Deposits
- Nanotech Startups
- Software Company
- Biotech Research Facilities
- Chinese Solar Panel Production Plant
Equipment[]
- Demidova Computer System
- Security Badge
- Parking Pass
- Computers and Computer Systems
- Security Software
- Corporate Vehicles
- Cell phones
- Tablets
- Mainframe
- Remote Computers
- Comm Sats
- Security Program
- Satellites
- Shuttles
- Chet's ID card
Trivia[]
- The dress code for the summer interns was flexible, depending on the situation.