Key Facts about Leonid Boguslavsky
Early days
- Leonid was born in Moscow in 1951.
- In 1973, he graduated with a degree in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics.
- Between 1973 and 1990, he conducted research in Computer Science and received a Doctorate degree.
- In 1990, he founded LVS, the exclusive distributor for Oracle in USSR.
- In 1991, Leonid moved to Canada, working at the University of Toronto as a visiting professor of Computer Science.
Wealth
- In 1997, he sold the company he founded, LVS, to PwC.
- Using the proceeds from the sale, he co-founded technology investment firm ru-Net in 2000, which was the precursor to RTP Global.
- Approximately 99% of Leonid's personal wealth was created in the US, Europe and India.
- In all of RTP Global's funds since inception, the vast majority of capital has derived from his personal wealth that was created from Internet and IT investments.
- He contributes >99% of the capital in the current fund.
- He was one of the first major investors in New York-based Datadog in 2012. It went public on NASDAQ in 2019, returning 500 times the invested capital and becoming one of his major holdings.
Country
- Leonid has been a Canadian citizen since 1996.
- Leonid is not and has not been a tax resident in Russia since February 2015.
- He lives in Italy with his wife and children.
- In response to Russia's invasion, Leonid released a statement in March 2022 – “I call for peace”.