Dmitry Maksminovich Ponomarev (Russian: Дми́трий Макси́мович Пономарёв; June 12, 1952 – February 5, 2020) was a Russian entrepreneur and the co-founder and chairman of board at MERA, founder of Volga Region Telecommunication Association, Lintelus, SwitchRay, Signe Networks, KIS, ADS and Nizhny Novgorod Institute of Information Technology (NIIT).
Dmitry Ponomarev has contributed to the development of the telecom industry in the Volga Region, which is the second largest communications market in Russia.
Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Nizhny Novgorod Polytechnic University Academic Council and honorary member of the Russian Association of Networks and Services Russian Association of Networks and Services (RANS).
He built MERA from a small company with a handful of employees to a global software R&D services provider employing more than 1200 engineers at the time of acquisition.
Ponomarev communicated with legislators and members of Government and he has proposed several IT industry-friendly amendments to the Russian customs legislature.