Leonid Boguslavsky (born June 17, 1951 Moscow, Soviet Union) is a USSR-born Canadian entrepreneur, scientist and venture capital investor.

[2] He is the founder of RTP Global, a venture capital firm with offices in New York, London, Paris, Bangalore and Dubai.

[8][9] He was born into the family of writer Zoya Boguslavskaya and scientist-engineer Boris Kagan; he was the stepson of poet Andrei Voznesensky.

[12] In 1973 under the rector Fyodor Kochnev, Boguslavsky graduated from the Moscow Institute of Transport Engineering, (MIIT) where his father Boris Kagan taught, majoring in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics.

Upon receiving his Doctorate of Science (Engineering), Boguslavsky wrote articles, scientific books and made inventions while heading his own laboratory.

As a result, he was awarded two significant contracts to implement these networks in 1987, one in a Czech coal mining company and another at the Polytechnic University in Slovakia.

[12] In 1989, Boguslavsky started to work in a Soviet Italian joint venture focused on computer network projects in Czechoslovakia.

[12] From 1991 to 1992, he served as a visiting professor at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Toronto, Canada.

[17] During 2000 and 2001, ru-Net Holdings survived the dot-com crisis, although some investors intended to exit the business and distribute the remaining funds.

[citation needed] ru-Net Holdings made its first investments in a couple of system integration and software development companies in 2002, buying stakes in TopS (Russia-based enterprise management systems integrator) and VDI (offshore programming).

Later, VDI merged with Epam to become the largest offshore programming and software outsourcing company in Central and Eastern Europe and launched an IPO on NASDAQ.

ru-Net Holdings restructured its business in 2006 with only Yandex shares left and the company changed its name to Internet Search Investment Limited (ISIL).

Other assets (including shares of Ozon.ru, TopS, and VDI) were distributed among the shareholders of ru-Net Holdings.

ru-Net Limited also owned Energodata, a big IT outsourcing company supporting SAP systems in Russia's federal electric grid sector.

[18] The former head of Microsoft in Russia, Olga Dergunova (Russian: Ольга Дергунова), will be an independent director.

A year and a half later, being a prizewinner of several races in his age category, he qualified for the 2015 Ironman World Championship in Kona, Hawaii.

[29] RTP Global has never received an investment from a Russian institution and more than 99% of Boguslavsky's net worth was created outside of Russia.