As far as Brian Wallach knows, he was born to a pretty smart family, and a family with incredible wealth. His father, Anthony Wallach, was a graduate from MIT, and his mother, Christina Wallach, was a graduate from Yale. Both were destined to do great things, and his father ended up doing just that, creating his own media empire with the help of ruthlessly undercutting those who got in his way. Wallach Industries was born, and Anthony Wallach wanted to make sure the business was as successful as could be -- determined to have an heir, the Wallachs soon welcomed their first and only son Brian. The boy had an early start on business, and by the time Brian had reached age 10, he was already trying to help out at the company. Proud that his son was taking an interest in such a young age, Anthony did all he could to further along Brian's education by homeschooling him and bringing him up to speed on the changes in the industry of media.

Anthony spent most of Brian's life growing up grooming his son to take the business world by storm, and that proved to be a good plan. As he grew older, Brian very quickly too on interest in computers, technology, and media. The more the father and son worked together, the larger the Massachusetts based company became. Wallach Industries was the leading company in media - in news, print, radio, however people got the news in town, it was coming from Wallach Industries. Eventually, the company grew so large that Wallach Industries put themselves in as many different businesses as they possibly could, and ended up taking ownership of Boston, MA's radio station and the local newspaper.

Though, the happy father-and-son collaboration quickly started to deteriorate. Anthony and Brian started arguing more, where Anthony was stuck in his old ways, Brian saw all the new potential of following the newest industry trends. They couldn't stay on top if they were unable to move forward, and even though Brian kept telling his father this, it was to no avail. Anthony Wallach was too stuck in his ways, and the connection between father and son disappeared professionally as quickly as it had personally. By the time Brian was 21, he was no longer speaking to his father, and had been stuck doing miniscule work for the company, while he watched his father lose contract after contract. Frustrated, Brian started to busy himself with things that he knew would piss off his father - womanizing, not caring about what those higher than him said, spending far too much of the company money on things that just didn't matter.

It was on one particularly stormy night that Anthony, Christina, and Brian were in the Wallach Industries building having yet another argument. Brian started screaming about how Anthony was single-handedly running the company into the ground, and Anthony was screaming back saying that Brian had no respect for the family or the company. Christina stood by as she watched her husband and son argue, and eventually suggested that they go their separate ways for the night. Brian, furious, resigned from the company on the spot, saying he would never work with his father again, and Anthony immediately accepted, saying that Brian was never worth the company or the effort. Furious, Anthony stormed out, pulling Christina with him, while Brian stayed back to clean out his desk.

Two hours later, his phone started ringing with an unknown number. Answering it, Brian soon learned that the person calling him was a doctor from Massachusetts General Hospital. There had been a car accident involving his parents. They had arrived to the hospital too late - they had died due to the trauma of the accident. What happened next was a blur. Brian claims he remembers a funeral and a wake, but truth be told, he doesn't remember it at all. With his resignation from Wallach Industries never going through, the company defaulted to Brian, and by the time he turned 22, he was the CEO of Wallach Industries and the de-facto owner of the two biggest media elements in town.

Brian was never able to forgive himself for his last words to his parents, and instead of trying to make amends with himself and try to ease his own guilt, he threw himself completely into work. He assigned other people to control the main aspects of the company, while he retained ownership of the radio station and the newspaper. He became ruthless in his control of the companies and his desire to keep them running, that he started to make shady business dealings on the side to make sure he could contain power. Nothing became more important to him than work.

Except, when it occurred to him that if he were to ever perish, he'd need an heir, he started to reluctantly date around. He met a woman who he later married, and while they got along well enough, every attempt to have children was met with arguments and eventually the realization that she could not have children. It took four years of working through marital issues, trying their best to stay together as much as they could despite his workaholic tendencies, but it ended up not working. Deciding that he had wanted a child -- but over time he had fallen out of love with his wife, he filed for divorce, and it was finalized in 2005. Deciding that he had wasted too much time on an attempt of romance, Brian decided he would own the company until he died -- he would name a successor in his own time, but for now he had to focus on the only thing that made his life worth it: work.

Now at age 38, Brian has tried to ignore the fact that he wants more fulfillment than just his work life, but his own ruthlessness has gotten in his own way. His determination to make sure he was better than his father and didn't end up carelessly throwing everything (including his life, no matter if it was an accident or not) away ended up driving him away from personal connections.

Now, the only concern Brian has is keeping the company afloat - nothing else matters. So the fact that he goes home alone to a large house isn't really an issue. At least, not an issue that he admits to.