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Organization
  
Veeam Software

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Native name
  
Ратмир Вильевич Тимашев

Born
  
26 June 1966 (age 50) (
1966-06-26
)
Ufa, RSFSR, USSR

Occupation
  
Entrepreneur, CEO of Veeam Software

Website
  
www.veeam.com/management-team.html

Alma maters
  
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Ohio State University

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Ratmir Vilyevich Timashev is a Russian IT entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Veeam Software. He also owns ABRT Venture Fund, which invests in early stage IT startup companies. He has been listed in The Top 25 Innovators of the Year by CRN Magazine and won a Silver Stevie Award for Executive of the Year — Computer Services.

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Early life and education

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Ratmir Timashev was born in Ufa, Russian SFSR, in 1966. He earned two master's degrees in Physics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (in 1990) and in Chemical Physics from the Ohio State University (in 1996).

Career

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In 1995, while still a graduate student at OSU, he started his first business with his college roommate, Andrei Baronov. The first business established by Timashev was an internet e-commerce start-up. With his partner, Baronov, he built an online store to sell computer parts. Later in 1996, the two partners created several tools for Windows NT administrators and these tools' sales soon exceeded the revenue from the computer parts' sales, which led Timashev to start a new company, Aelita Software. Started in 1997, Aelita Software, was focused on Windows Server systems management and monitoring software. Over the next eight years, Aelita grew to $30 million in sales. At the beginning of 2004, the company was sold to its prime competitor, Quest Software, for about $115 million. Timashev had become a General Manager at Quest responsible for the new Windows Enterprise Management business unit. He left Quest at the beginning of 2005.
In late 2005, Timashev realized the potential of virtualization technologies. He decided to do something similar to what he and Baronov had done for Windows NT, but for the virtual environment instead. In 2006, Timashev started a new company that he named Veeam Software. The first Veeam products were designed for managing and monitoring the VMware ESX virtualization platform. In 2008 the company released a backup tool called Veeam Backup & Replication. The tool soon became Veeam's flagship product and helped company enter the backup market.
By the end of 2015, Timashev’s company employed more than 1,950 people worldwide and reported $474 million in revenue.

Venture activities

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Since 2004, Timashev and Baronov started investing in information technology companies that develop internet and software products. They established ABRT Venture Fund (the name ABRT came from the first letters of the founders’ names: Andrei Baronov and Ratmir Timashev). The company mainly invests in eastern and central European-based companies. The fund invests in startup companies, provides its own specialists to enable sales, marketing and other necessary activities, and then exits on IPO or a company’s sale stage.

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References

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