Management Team
Ratmir Timashev – President and CEO
Ratmir Timashev possesses a rare combination of proven business savvy, forward-looking technical knowledge and market vision. As president and CEO of Veeam Software, Timashev brings to bear more than a decade of entrepreneurial experience building, advising and investing in successful technology companies. In 1997, he founded Aelita Software, provider of award-winning Windows Server systems management software.
In 2004, Aelita was acquired by Quest Software, and after ensuring the successful continuation of Aelita’s products and strategy at Quest, Ratmir and his longtime business partner, Andrei Baronov, created ABRT Venture Fund. ABRT partnered with OpenView Venture Partners of Boston and Mangrove Capital Partners of Luxemburg to create the “Partnership for Russia” investment program, designed to identify and invest in top information technology companies in Russia and East-Central Europe.
Timashev earned a master's degree from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1990 and a master's degree in Chemical Physics from the Ohio State University in 1995. In addition to his leadership of Veeam, Timashev is on the boards of directors of Quintura, Inc., and InvisibleCRM. He continues to share his knowledge and ideas to fuel innovative IT solutions around the world.
Andrei Baronov, PhD – Co-founder and CTO
Dr. Baronov is one of the world’s leading systems management experts. As CTO of Veeam Software, he oversees all aspects of product strategy and R&D. In 1997, in partnership with Ratmir Timashev, he co-founded Aelita Software. Baronov’s expertise and insight made it possible to create a family of innovative, award-winning products built on architecture and core technologies a generation ahead of competitors’.
In 2004, after Aelita was acquired by Quest Software, Dr. Baronov took the position of R&D Director of Quest’s Microsoft Business Unit, leading its Russian product development teams. While working with Timashev on the ABRT Venture Fund, Dr. Baronov continued to build his knowledge and explore new areas, including virtualization. His first virtual server management product, FastSCP, has been widely embraced by the industry.
Baronov earned his master's degree from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1990, and a PhD in Physics and Technology from the same college in 1995. Visit his blog at www.abinsight.com to see what this forward-thinking technology expert is working on next.
Alexey Vasilyev - Research & Development Director
Alexey Vasilyev participates in the development of every Veeam Software product, initiating the ideas behind many of them. With more than a decade of experience in software development, Vasilyev offers depth of knowledge in systems management, with special expertise in the Windows Server environment and managing virtual servers. He was a driving force behind the Aelita Software product still being used to migrate some of the world’s largest environments from Exchange 5.5 to newer versions of Exchange Server.
Vasilyev earned a Master of Computer Systems degree from the St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University. He writes many of the technical articles found at www.vmweekly.com and shares his knowledge through that site’s "Ask the expert" feature.
George Sidoris – VP, Worldwide Sales
With more than 25 years of software industry sales and management experience, George Sidoris is well qualified to build Veeam’s sales organization and successfully drive revenue growth. Most recently, Sidoris led direct sales and systems integrator programs for the Federal Government sales team at Quest Software. He came to Quest through its 2004 acquisition of Aelita Software, where he worked with both private- and public-sector accounts.
During his tenure at Aelita, Sidoris more than doubled revenue, created and led the public sector sales organization, and was personally instrumental in securing multi-million-dollar transactions. Earlier, Sidoris built and led sales teams at a number of small technology organizations, as well as at Computer Associates International (CA).
Sidoris began his career in information systems operations management with several Cleveland-area companies, giving him a strong understanding of the needs and expectations of IT professionals.
Rick Hoffman – VP, Channel and Alliances
Rick Hoffman brings more than 20 years’ experience in information technology sales management to build a strong channel and alliance network for Veeam Software, fueling the company’s drive toward leadership of the virtualization management market. Hoffman comes to Veeam from Quest Software, where he was director of global alliances. In that capacity, he managed Quest’s relationships with Accenture, Avanade, IBM, Dell, Computer Sciences Corp., EDS, HP and other international systems integrators. He joined Quest through its 2004 acquisition of Aelita Software, where he held a similar position.
Having worked with both startup and mature technology companies, Hoffman is well acquainted with introducing and integrating complex information technologies into the business processes of the world’s largest IT service providers. Hoffman’s priorities are customer satisfaction, partner revenue, and channel success – in that order. His years in the business have taught him that approach yields a win-win-win scenario, and that is what he pursues for Veeam Software.
Carrie Reber – VP, Worldwide Marketing
Carrie Reber brings a strong background in technology public relations and marketing to Veeam Software. Her focus is on creating strategies to help the company capitalize on the rapid growth taking place in the virtualization management market. Reber’s philosophy is that good reputations must be earned, and Veeam Software takes seriously its commitment to seek out and respond to customer feedback. By listening to the people managing VMware environments, Veeam is able to provide the tools they need to be more efficient and enjoy better-managed virtual infrastructures.
Reber comes to Veeam from Quest Software, where she was director of product public relations and analyst relations. During her earlier tenure at Aelita Software, the company was ranked in the top 100 of the Inc. 500 list, won numerous awards, and became well known for Windows Server management solutions. Reber’s experience also includes work for more than a dozen technology companies, large and small, public and private.
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