Name: Marcus Gayle
Status: Dominant
Age: 49
Gender: Male



Appearance: Marcus Gayle is five feet eleven inches tall, with brown eyes and dark hair that is worn slightly longer than might be deemed conventional and is starting to show signs of grey at the temples. While he prefers to sport a beard that is little more than stubble, on occasion he will be seen clean shaven. His favored attire is expensively tailored suits and open necked shirts, usually in dark colors, although during the day he can sometimes be seen in more casual clothes, typically jeans and a casual shirt. It is unusual to see him wearing a tie - he was once heard to remark that there were far better things to do with ties than put them around one's own neck.

Occupation: Chairman and CEO of Gayle Enterprises.

Personality: Meeting Marcus for the first time you will find a man who is is polite, charming,  a hand shake openly offered and seemingly at ease in all different levels of society. He's known as a philanthropist, a benefactor, a friend of the arts, with a gallery in New York that bears his name and supports new and emerging artists.

That's the public face of Marcus Gayle, the sort of thing that you would find on wikipedia. But there are other sides to Marcus, facets that are not so well known. His private address book contains contact details for people of power, influence. Some of them are classmates from Yale, the same people he despised then. He still despises them now of course, but they have their uses. And one thing that Marcus Gayle has learned is that money is its own power, its own language. When Marcus Gayle calls these people he expects them to listen, to acquiesce to his 'request'. Then there's the other part of his address book, the coded entries that would mean nothing to anyone who happened across them, the men - and women - that Marcus thinks of as equals, peers. Mafiya chieftains from both sides of the Atlantic, a former Major of KGB, a Saudi Princess, the men and women who wield the true power.

Then there's the other aspect of Marcus' power. The dark side that he can't control. Doesn't want to control. Because he enjoys it too much to want to control it. Vanilla sex does nothing for him. Marcus is a Sadist, aches to wield the whip, the crop, the cane. It makes him feel the same that William must have done as he wrote his sonatas, Leonardo as he painted La Gioconda, John as he wrote Imagine. Marcus thinks of himself in the same vein, as an artist, his canvas the naked flesh of a willing victim, his brushes the instruments of pain that are at his fingertips. His wife knows, of course she knows, but she has her own lifestyle, her own cravings, and besides he is a multi billionaire and she has no pre nup so she turns a blind eye when he disappears to the Bound for a while to indulge himself and make the most of the benefits of his platinum membership.

History:  Marcus Gayle was born in New York City in 1968, first child of Adam - a City cop - and Lauren - an alcoholic - Gayle. He has one sibling, a younger sister named Elizabeth.

Marcus put himself through Yale, where he did a double Major in economics and history while working several jobs. He had nothing but contempt for many of his classmates, the scions of families who were wealthy, influential and who wanted for nothing. In his Senior year he was a passenger that was involved in a car crash in which a young woman who had been a passenger in the other car died. Marcus' room mate, a man named Jason Croft, was driving their car and was subsequently jailed for three years for manslaughter.

Following his graduation Marcus spent several years working as a trader on Wall Street, making several million of dollars in the process. In 1992 he quit New York and moved to St Petersburg, Russia, where he became involved in the nascent free market that had emerged from the former Soviet Union. It was a market with no rules, where the strong could prosper where former State assets such as gold, diamonds, gas, and oil could be bought for roubles at the official exchange rate from corrupt bureaucrats then sold on the World markets for dollars or deutschmarks. It was money laundering on a grand scale. The profits were huge, running into multiple millions of US dollars. Naturally it also brought Marcus into contact with many of the more unsavoury elements of the new Russian.

Marcus returned to the United States in 1995. By the dawn of the new Millenium he was a billionaire. He married in 1994, to a Russian woman named Natalya. They had their first - and only - child in 1997, a daughter they named Anastasia, or Ana for short. He speaks Russian fluently.

Sexual Orientation: Straight
Kinks: Marcus is a Sadist. He is strict, cruel, enjoys inflicting pain, the dynamics of a total power exchange, humiliation, degradation. He is not actively seeking a collared slave to own at this stage but should he find one that appears to be compatible with him he would not rule it out.
Limits: Animals. Anything illegal or in violation of site ToU's