Ratmir Vilyevich Timashev (Russian: Ратмир Вильевич Тимашев; born 26 June 1966) is a Russian-born, Connecticut-based IT entrepreneur, and founder and former CEO of Veeam Software.

At OSU he worked under the supervision of Dr. Terry Miller, Ohio Eminent Scholar Professor Emeritus, and Dr. George McBane.

[9][10] In 1995, while still a graduate student at OSU, he started his first business with his college roommate, Andrei Baronov.

[14][15] The first Veeam products were designed for managing and monitoring the VMware ESX virtualization platform.

The tool soon became Veeam's flagship product and helped the company enter the backup market.

[16] By the end of 2015, Veeam Software employed more than 1,950 people worldwide[17] and reported $474 million in revenue.

[24][25] Since 2004, Timashev and Baronov started investing in information technology companies that develop internet and software products.