Ratmir Timashev

Wikipedia says he was born on 26 June 1966 in Ufa, in the Russian republic of the Soviet Union, and graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1990. It says he moved to the United States in 1992 to study chemical physics at Ohio State and earned a master's there in 1996. Forbes lists master's degrees from both schools. The Wikipedia article carries failed-verification tags, and the birth date is cited to a 2004 article about the Aelita sale. His parents, his household and who paid for the move are not established in anything opened here.

Per Wikipedia, while still a graduate student he and his college roommate Andrei Baronov started an internet business selling computer parts. In 1996 they wrote Windows NT administration tools, which sold better than the parts. Forbes says Timashev and Baronov founded Aelita Software in 1996; Wikipedia gives 1997. Wikipedia says it reached about $30 million in sales over eight years. How the first money was raised is not established.

Quest Software bought Aelita in early 2004 for about $115 million, per Wikipedia and Forbes. Wikipedia says Timashev became a general manager at Quest Software, running its Windows Enterprise Management unit, and left at the start of 2005. His share of the sale is not established.

In 2006 he and Baronov founded Veeam, starting with tools for managing VMware virtual machines. Veeam Backup and Replication followed in 2008. The Register reports the two founded it in 2006 and took no outside funding until Insight Partners put in $500 million in January 2019, and that the first office was in Saint Petersburg, Russia. A founding team with a prior exit, no investors to answer to, and a market that virtualization was creating from scratch is what separates this from a first-time attempt. Wikipedia says revenue reached $474 million by the end of 2015.

Insight Partners agreed on 9 January 2020 to buy Veeam for about $5 billion, per Wikipedia and The Register. The Register says both founders would leave the board and that Timashev was then executive vice president for worldwide sales and marketing. Forbes calls him a former CEO, and the sources opened here do not agree on his titles, so his exact roles are not established. What he personally received is not established.

Wikipedia says he and Baronov launched Object First, a storage startup, after the sale, and that in 2024 he co-founded an AI company, Integrail, renamed EverWorker in 2025. Forbes says he launched a Columbus venture firm, Oh.io, in 2026, and that he pledged about $150 million to Ohio State, including a $110 million gift to found its Center for Software Innovation. Wikipedia dates that gift to 2023 and Forbes to 2020, so the date is not settled.

Forbes reported in February 2024, as relayed by Liga.net, that Timashev and Baronov had renounced Russian citizenship at the embassy in Cyprus, and that Timashev's took effect in January 2024. Forbes's own profile now says he is a United States citizen and also Cypriot. In March 2022 Veeam's CEO said the company had paused all sales in Russia, and its development team had worked from Saint Petersburg. A Ukrainian outlet, AIN, reported in May 2022 that the company's Russian-language presence continued; it said Veeam did not respond to its questions. That is one outlet's reporting and it is not established here.

Forbes showed $5.4 billion on 20 October 2026, a real-time rank of 783, a self-made score of 9, and a residence in Greenwich, Connecticut. The figure is an estimate. Whether most of it is cash from the 2020 sale or a retained stake in Veeam is not established.

The Veeam Wikipedia article reports no litigation or sanctions against the company, and says Veeam sold its N2WS business back to its founders in 2019 after discussions with the US government. Nothing opened here reports litigation against Timashev personally. That is the absence of reporting in a few sources, and it is not a clearance.