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Leonid Boguslavsky

Founder of RTP Global

Florence, Tuscany

Overview

Work Experience

  • Founder and Partner

    2000 - Current

    Founder of RTP Global - a leading early-stage venture capital fund which invests, globally, in technology startups across B2B and enterprise SaaS, e-commerce, marketplaces, digital health, foodtech, agritech, edtech, and mobility. Career highlights: • Built and now leads a global team of 8 investment partners and 30+ employees in Europe, Asia and the USA to source, invest and support the most innovative tech companies in the world. • Invested in over 150 tech companies, across 18 countries, to date. • Successfully launched global expansion of the VC firm with the offices in New York, Bangalore, London, Paris and Dubai, recruiting top investment partners in each region. • Early investor in Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) in 2012. Maintained ownership beyond the company’s IPO in 2019, to return 500x the invested capital. • 1 in 10 RTP investments have become multi-billion-dollar businesses, including EPAM, Datadog, Ring Central, DeliveryHero, and CRED. • In June 2023, launched firm’s latest fund of $1billon in capital.

  • Senior Partner, Head of Management Consulting Services

    1997 - 2001

    Built the leading SAP consulting practice in the role of Head of Management Consulting Services in Russia. Also served as the eBusiness leader for East and Central Europe.

  • Founder and President

    1990 - 1996

    Founded and built pioneering IT systems integration company, LVS, working with a portfolio of technology providers including Oracle, Compaq, Sun Microsystems and Cisco. Career highlights: • Managed a small team of five computer scientists and became the exclusive distributor for Oracle Corp in the former USSR, then Russia. • Led a turn-key project for computerization of the Parliament during the 1990s. • Implemented a computer system for a privatization of residential real estate in Moscow, Russia. • Implemented a national passport database and control system in Uzbekistan. • Sold the company to PwC in 1996.

  • Researcher and Head of Laboratory

    1973 - 1996

    Published 100+ scientific papers and three books on performance evaluation and mathematical models of computer systems’ memory hierarchy, multiprocessor systems, and computer networks protocols.

  • Researcher and Professor, Department of Computer Science

    1991 - 1992

    Lead research projects in the areas of performance evaluation and modelling of computer networks, communication protocols.

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