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Kasperskaya (fitting) Natalia Ivanovna - General Director of InfoWatch - developer of confidential information protection systems from internal threats. More than 10 years was the leader of the Kaspersky Lab.

Biography

Natalia Ivanovna Fitting (later Kasperskaya) was born on February 5, 1966. Parents are typical representatives of the Technical Intellery. The only child was born to those standards late: the father was already 46 years old, the mother - 30. Parents - engineers, worked in "closed" institutes, forever employed.

In the young man was engaged in sports, quite a long time he played basketball in the DUSSH. In winter, skiing in the suburbs, and in the summer he was fond of swimming. She also collected brands, badges and Soviet coins, painted portraits of their friends and sang in the school chore.

In one of the interviews, Natalia Kasperskaya said that he dreamed of becoming a veterinarian:

"I really liked to mess with animals. I even seriously thought to choose such a profession, but when I switched to senior classes, I started completely irresistible problems with chemistry. And since my parents are "techinari", then there was no particular alternative. I naturally advised to enter the technical university. "

The last two school years studied at the Fizman school at MAI, then entered the Moscow Institute of Electronic Engineering (MIEM) at the Faculty of Applied Mathematics.

1986: Acquaintance with Evgeny Kaspersky

In 1994, she came to work in the NTC "Kami", where the antivirus project AVP was headed.

1997: Cooperator "Kaspersky Lab"

In 1997, Natalia convinced her husband to establish his company and make the surname brand. Founder's father was engaged technical part. Natalia Kasperskaya became the general director of the Kaspersky Lab and dealt with sales, personnel and access to international markets.

In the `Lab Kaspersky` Initially six people worked, but gradually it went down to an international group of companies with a head office in Moscow, ten foreign offices and a staff of more than 500 people. Questions like: "What is the company's success?", "Who did more for success?" etc. Natalia was responsible for his life dozens of times. The company was at a very necessary time in the right place, very successful - just the growth of the market, that is, the market was still new, this is the first. The second - in Russia, he was generally bad, that is, Kaspersky, in fact, were the discoverers in this sense in the field of software. The third is that competitors also did not know where to go, that is, all wandered blindly and did a lot of mistakes. Everyone was in equal terms.

In October 2007, Natalia Kasperskaya became the general director of the company and the only owner of InfoWatch, the developer of confidential information protection systems from internal threats.

2011: Sale of part of the share in Kaspersky Lab

On January 20, 2011 it became known that the American Direct Investment Fund General Atlantic acquired a major stake in Kaspersky Lab. This is the first in the history of the anti-virus developer case of the entry of a professional institutional investor in the company.

The parties do not disclose the size acquired by the Americans in the Kaspersky Lab, nor the amount paid, but report that, at the end of the transaction, General Atlantic will be the second largest shareholder of the Laboratory. The largest shareholder of the company will remain Evgeny Kaspersky with a controlling stake.

A part of the shares transferred to the General Atlantic Foundation earlier belonged to one of the previous shareholders of the company, the other part that Yevgeny Buyakin called the "symbolic", was released additionally. According to CNews, the main seller of shares was the co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Laboratory, Natalia Kasperskaya. Evgeny Kaspersky stocks did not participate in the transaction.

Natalia Kasperskaya told CNews that the proportion of a new investor in the "laboratory" will be "smaller" than 20%. According to her, she has a significant part of the company's shares, and she has no plans to leave the chair of the Chairman of the Board of Directors, "if only shareholders will accept another solution."

He plans to be drawn to their own projects. This developer Decision Decision Decisions InfoWatch, Nanosentika, which is engaged in semantic analysis of written speech, and the project "Cribrorum", which studies the reputation of companies by analyzing their references on the Internet and other media holders.

The initiator of the transaction was General Atlantic: his executive director John Bernstein said that the fund was looking for a manufacturer of protective decisions for investment and "about a year ago she appealed to the Kaspersky Lab with a proposal for cooperation."

According to the source of the agency, the motive of the crime of Savelyev and their friends, it became a desire to pay out the loan to loans made in one of the banks.

Potential victim for redemption, attackers were looking for on the Internet. Their choice fell on Ivan Kaspersky after they found his home and working address on his page "Vkontakte".

At the same time, according to the newspaper "Kommersant", the abduction was organized by a repeatedly convicted "professional criminal", and the attackers watched a young man for several months, choosing a scheme for committing a crime.

The interlocutors of the LifeNews edition said that the abduction was performed "unprofessional". About 8:15 Ivan was filmed by the surveillance cameras in the nearest metro station Strogino, and at about 9 am, the kidnappers forced him to call relatives and convey the conditions for redemption of 3 million euros.

The second evidence of the non-professionalism of criminals, law enforcement officers called the content of the prisoner in the same house in the Garden Roch's garden partnership under Sergiev Posad, where they lived themselves.

• On the evening of April 21, 2011, the LifeNews edition reported that the redemption of Ivan Kaspersky was paid a ransom, the amount of which is not disclosed. After the liberation of the prisoner, the sources in law enforcement agencies stated that the media were disinforced to calm the kidnappers.

In an interview with RSN, Natalia Kasperskaya told that her son was not tortured and kept in handcuffs locked in the bath. The kidnappers constantly changed the phone numbers from which there were calls with the requirement of redemption. Until law enforcement agencies Engaged in liberation young manShe and her spouse "sat on Petrovka in a separate room and waited for the bell of the kidnapper." On the last day, the criminal for communication did not come out, and the parents of I.Kaspersky learned that everything was over, after the information appeared in the media.

"On Sunday, on Easter, we still waited for a call, but we have already seen that the operatives are increasingly meeting without our participation, they clearly prepared for something," says Ashmanov. "This is a very dangerous moment when the vector diverges: the operations need to grab the kidnappers, and their parents are to be returned to the stolen child alive and unharmed." After lunch, the operatives said that the calls would no longer be, the kidnappers were calculated and caught, now they are going for Ivan, who is no longer threatened. The operation ended closer in the evening. Ivan was released. Five kidnapping participants are detained (three - members of one family), four of them are now under arrest, a consequence is being conducted. Evgenia and Natalia Kasperskaya with Ashmanov invited the head of the department, congratulated and offered to celebrate happy event Vodka with large chopped sausage and cheese. With Ivan, the mother was seen only at 4 o'clock in the morning, before that he was taken by testimony.

• According to the official information of the GUVD, Ivan Kaspersky was released from the hands of the kidnappers only on Sunday on April 24, 2011. By this time, his location was already seclined by a working mobile phone. Information about this was made public by the official representative of the capital GUVD Viktor Biryukov. According to law enforcement officers, the state of Ivan Kaspersky "satisfactory".

According to the official information of the GUVD, the exemption was carried out as a result of the power operation of FSB, Moore and Special Forces. Operation in the area of \u200b\u200bSergiev Posada "passed without a single shot."

The kidnappers were assigned a meeting to transfer a repurchase in Moscow, where the Savelyev family went to the full composition and one of their accomplices. Cars on which they drove were stopped to verify the documents, and the attackers were detained.

At the same time, another group of capture entered the territory of the garden farm, where the captive was kept. Ivan Kaspersky was discovered in the building Bani, where he was guarded by another accomplice of the Savelyev family.

Ashmanov did not exclude that the ultimate goal of the bandits was not at all redemption.

"I think that I wanted to press Yevgeny Kaspersky or Natalia, Shareholders of the Kaspersky Lab," he argues. - Perhaps the true requirements we did not hear. "

2012: buying 16% in the German antivirus company G Data

On October 15, 2012, it became known that Natalia Kasperskaya, which possesses InfoWatch holding, acquired 16.8% of the shares of the German antivirus company G Data Software AG.

Shares were purchased from several former minority shareholders, in particular, from Berlin Venture investment company. October 23 at the Annual Meeting of Shareholders GDATA Natalia Kasperskaya will be elected to the Board of Directors german company.

The beginning of the cooperation of Natalia Kasperskaya and G Data was found in 1996, when co-founder of the German company Kai Figger Suggested Natalia partnership at CeBIT exhibition in Hanover. Then Natalia headed the Kaspersky Lab antivirus company, and two manufacturer of antiviruses agreed on technological cooperation.

As Natalia Kasperskaya she said, for many years she watched G DATA and believes that it "deserves more international success." "For several years G Data made a serious technological jerk. As a member of the Board of Directors G DATA, I will be engaged in strengthening the highest reputation of the company in the international market, and I also want to bring my knowledge and experience in the anti-virus industry to the company, "Natalia said.

As Tadviser commented in the press service of InfoWatch, the company has long been looking towards European companies, and this acquisition fits into plans to promote in this market. Moreover, this is not the last acquisition, but refused from more detailed comments. On further plans to increase the package in G Data is also unknown, as well as the cost of acquisition.

2015: Farm Foundation

As Tadviser found out, in the fall of 2015, Natalia Kasperskaya established the peasant-farmhouse "Green Barashek". The farm is located in the suburbs, in the picturesque places of Serpukhovsky district, confirmed Tadviser Natalia Kasperskaya. Read more - in a separate one.

2017: Head of Information Security Committee

On August 2, 2017, the President of the Group of Companies (GC) InfoWatch Natalia Kasperskaya was chosen by the Head of the Information Security Committee, created in the Association of Software Developers "Domestic Soft". The Committee is formed as part of the program "Digital Economics Russian Federation", Which defines the goals, objectives, directions and the deadlines for the implementation of the main measures public Policy By creating required conditions For the development of a digital economy in Russia.

2018: Natalia Kasperskaya became the owner of Naclis Bank

In February 2018, the General Director of the InfoWatch Group of Companies Natalya Kasperskaya told about how the owner of Naclis Bank had forced. According to her, the deal was not carried out from a good life: a credit organization - "Big Headache." Read more.

A family

Natalia Ivanovna has two children from the first marriage and two from the second. Natalia Kasperskaya has repeatedly stated that four children are not so much. And if it were possible before, she would give birth.

After publishing a message on the ITPedia website that on February 5, Natalya Kasperskaya celebrates his birthday, readers had an idea to give something to a respected Matter of the IT market of Russia. Being limited to the means, they decided to give a list of names for the fourth child of Natalia. It was not reliably known to those who are waiting for Natalia - a girl or boy. Therefore, the list of names spontaneously began to enter both female and men. Maybe this is an accident, but the name of Mary, which eventually received the child, was in the list of readers ITPedia long before her birthday.

• Traian - Present Imperial Roman Name, consonant with the professional interests of Natalia Ivanovna
• Klava - No comments
• Bagomir - bringing peace to the software filled with bugs
• Optimisandr - consonantly with the "Optimizer" (the generation of Musha Natalia - Igor Ashmanova)
• Ipiona - There is an assumption that IPO is the desired goal of Natalia
• Aytislav. - Glory information technology
• Insiderin - consonantly with the professional interests of Natalia
• Virusyl - Derivative on behalf of Vasily and the words "Virus"
• Yuessina - From USB - the main tool of insiders, with whom Natalia Ivanovna is struggling
• Avira - the name of the antivirus, quite suitable for the name of the person
• Folder - Folder - a person with this name is doomed to become a good dad
• Execution - from extending the executable EXE file
• Kav. - For Son - from KAV - Kaspersky Anti-Virus
• Kisa - For your daughter - from KIS - Kaspersky Internet Security
• Casserat. - For a son - abbreviated from the surname and IT
• Mashka! - Just Maria, without binding to IT and profession.
• Rosnett Igor - Sound
• Rearroid - derived on behalf of faith and the word "virus"
• Ivanka - derived from patronyony, name and surname very respected by me Natalia Ivanovna
• Skype - derived from the Skype program, as well as meaning free communication with the whole world without borders
• Bluetooth or Bluetooth - You understand what the name
• Connectin - derived from Constantine and Connect
• Immunita - with severe immunity
• Camputador and Camputadora - Spanish computers names, echoing with toroidor

Hobby

He is interested in playing guitar, skiing, tourism, reading professional literature, likes to travel in the company of friends and children. Freely owns English and German.

Quotes

• About Evgeny Kaspersky as a manager - Kaspersky is not the leader. It is engaged in other activities that have quite little common with the formal position "General Director". Since Eugene is the main shareholder of the company, it can appoint himself to any desired position.

• On the crisis in the Kaspersky Lab - Unfortunately, over the past 4 years, the laboratory has quite focused its product portfolio (by fact) in the field of protection for Windows ... The problem is that modern technologies Quite quickly develop - new platforms appear, which are either no viruses, or they are very small. For them, new types of protection are needed ... Another threat to the market is free antiviruses, which, although gradually, are conquered increasingly popular ... the third problem, which I would notice attention are so-called. Targeted attacks. Those. Attacks pursuing a specific goal. For example, special Trojans written under the Alpha Bank systems. Antiviruses are powerless against such threats. We need new solutions. I do not exclude that they will not come from old market players, but from newcomers ... At one time I urged Kaspersky and other shareholders that need to attract external capital just with the purpose of buying businesses and technologies in new interesting areas. We even managed to attract an investor, but, unfortunately, the idea of \u200b\u200bdevelopment by Caspersky's absorption was blocked ... Honestly, I do not see the drivers of a new growth inside the company, which would give LC the opportunity to organically grow faster than the market. And consequently, the growth rate of the business will decline further.
• About own employment - Basically, engaged in the affairs of the company. Another 2-3 times a week, questions about the Kribrum project - this is such a project for automatic monitoring social networks, infovotech in it is a solid proportion. In third place is appointed - a company that works in the area artificial Intelligence. She is still known for its "mass" project - http://www.iii.ru. Now we are quite converting it very much and by the summer we plan to roll out something completely new. And the last week, for example, all my time took the exhibition Zebit ... There is still a couple of small projects, but I take much less personal participation in them.
• About their teachers - Head Kami - Alexey Borisovich Remizova - I consider the first business teacher. Huge impact on my formation as a businessman (or businesswoman ??) :) I had my second husband Igor Ashmanov, who has a number of business in the field of high technologies.
• About Russian Female - We have how many women in the government. Two ministers and vice-speaker, this is not counting the heaps of officials rank down. Perhaps the next president will be a woman. Just for this should (more precisely, there must be a worthy candidate. While such politicians are not visible on our horizon.
• About meeting with Vladimir Putin - Only three weeks ago, several representatives of the software developers (software) met with the Prime Minister in Novosibirsk Academgorodok and proposed a number of measures to stimulate the domestic software development. Premier our offers accepted, and, as far as I know, the relevant instructions of the ministries are already given. In particular, we proposed introduce the mandatory reporting of government departments and state-owned companies on the volume of purchased domestic and imported software. Some measures to support the state of patenting abroad, as well as the possibility of enterprises of the high-tech sector to invest in developing without risk to be closed tax Inspectorate for damages. Regarding these two items, the prime minister promised to think. There were several more proposals - to stimulate the export of high-tech products, on the development of self-determining organizations, etc., the prime minister adopted and gave instructions to the responsible ministers.
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The most influential and authoritative country in the country in the field information technologies He was a co-founder of the famous global company Kaspersky Lab. Natalia Kasperskaya is one of the richest women in Russia and the mother of five children. Now it works as the Director General of the InfoWatch Group of Companies, which was founded after departing from the IT Giant (Kaspersky Lab).

early years

Natalia Ivanovna Kasperskaya (nee fitting) was born on February 5, 1966 in Moscow. Parents by profession engineers worked on one of the closed defense institutions. Father, Ivan Mikhailovich, headed the laboratory. One of her ancestors, Praded Ivan Ivanovich Fitting - the author of the popular textbook geography of the XIX century.

In school years, he was distinguished by increased public activity and used respect for classmates. He consisted in the Council of the school pioneer squad, then went to an increase in the district pioneer headquarters. In high schools, he was elected a compusor.

Active Komsomolka for five years has been engaged in basketball in the children-youth sports school. The girl pretty seriously wanted to become a veterinarian, but soon she had to part with this dream. Natalia was not very important to study chemistry. In the eighth grade, parents decided to translate her from the usual high school with a physico-mathematical bias at MAI (Moscow Aviation Institute).

Carier start

After graduation, he entered Moscow state University. But according to the results of entrance exams, he did not pass through the competition, the harassment of Polballa. Translated documents to the Moscow Institute of Electronic Engineering (MIEM), where these estimates were enough for admission. At the Faculty of Applied Mathematics, Natalia Kasperskaya studied from 1984 to 1989. Thesis was dedicated mathematical modeling The cooling process of a nuclear reactor. Later he received a bachelor's degree in business in the open University of Great Britain.

After graduating from the Institute, Natalia has distributed a researcher in the Moscow Central Scientific and Design Bureau. She worked for only six months, after which she went on maternity leave. The Labor Biography of Natalia Kasperskaya in the field of information technology began in 1994, when she was 28 years old, a young woman was employed by the seller of software into a new store, which opened the former teacher Yevgeny Kaspersky from the Higher School of the KGB of the USSR. Wage made up about $ 50 dollars.

Business development

Since the fall of 1994, Natalya Ivanovna Kasperskaya began to be responsible for sales of AVP Anti-Virus (AntiViral Toolkit Pro) as the head of the department. Since 1991, the program workers under the guidance of her husband developed the program. Due to its activity, over the next few years, it was possible to create good distribution channels of the software product, to organize technical support and proceed to expansion into overseas markets.

Starting from sales of $ 100-200 per month in 1994, a year later the company reached a volume of more than 130 thousand US dollars. Sales of the product began to grow rapidly, in 1996 to reach more than 600 thousand, and on next year - More than a million. Profit shared equally between the Kaspersky team and the head company. By 1997, Kaspersky spouses understood the potential of the business and decided to separate to an independent business.

Creating a "Kaspersky Lab"

In the summer of 1997, Natalia Ivanovna Kasperskaya became the initiator of the Kaspersky Lab organization. It was on her initiative that the company received this name. For more than 10 years, she worked as the Director General of the Kaspersky Lab. In the IT company she owned 10% of the shares, 50% - Eugene and 20% went to two developers programmers. Sales of antivirus continued to grow rapidly, reaching $ 67 million in 2006.

In 2007, it was removed from the management of the laboratory in connection with the divorce and disagreements with Eugene. Natalia remained in the company Chairman of the Created Board of Directors. By 2011, she finally broke up with Kaspersky Lab. The shares belonging to her were redeemed by other shareholders. Under the leadership of Natalia, a small Russian IT company rose into a global corporation with representative offices around the world. Capitalization in 2011 was estimated at 1.3 billion dollars with an annual revenue of 700 million. Natalia's personal state was estimated at 220-270 million y. e.

Organizing your business

After the business section, as part of the payment, she got infoWatch. Natalia Kasperskaya decided to engage in the development of the company's software product that was aimed at protecting large-scale business data and was intended for corporations with at least 300 stations. After the arrival of the new sales management began to rise by 60-70% per year.

Today InfoWatch has grown into a group of companies specializing in business protection from internal threats and targeted external attacks. The group takes about 50% of the local confidential data market. Standing clients are large Russian state structures, private and state corporations. The company actively develops foreign markets, developing business in Europe, in the Middle East and Southeast Asia.

Natalia Kasperskaya Photography

He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Electronic Engineering (MIEM) in the specialty "Applied Mathematics". It has a degree of bachelor of business Open University of Great Britain.

In 1994, he came to work in the NTC "Kami", as a seller of software products, after some time headed the Anti-virus project "AVP", with the development of which the history of Kaspersky Lab began. Sales "AVP" at the time was $ 200 per month.

In 1997, became the co-founder of the company Kaspersky Laboratory. It remains the head of the company for more than 10 years. "Kaspersky Lab" during this time became the leader of the international market of computer security systems with a turn of several hundred million dollars.

In 2004, on the basis of the Kaspersky Lab, created a new company engaged in the development of funds for the protection of corporate confidential information from internal threats (DLP systems). Solutions developed by InfoWatch are in demand in Russia and abroad.

In the summer of 2007, he was elected to the post of Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Kaspersky Lab.

Since 2007, the post of Director General of InfoWatch has been taken. At present, InfoWatch is the leader of the DLP-systems market in Russia and is actively developing European, Asian and American markets.

In April 2008, a member of the Management Board of the Russian-German Foreign Trade Chamber was chosen.

Best days

Let him be cut! Visputated: 24.

"Father" of nuclear physics Visputated: 24.

Maybe Evgeny Kaspersky would have remained talented, but few people who are a famous programmer if it were not for him ex-wife Natalia. It was she who established the successful sale of IT-developments of her husband. And if the business began to flourish, the Kaspersky family broke up. But Natalia and Eugene managed to preserve relationships and are still co-owners of the Kaspersky Lab.

Divorce business is not a hindrance

- Natalia, the company was established in 1997, and in two years you divorced Evgeny Kaspersky, with whom almost 10 years have lived and gave birth to two sons ...

- We both understood that the company was very expensive. At that time, the "laboratory" was a little more than a year, she just began to rise. The divorce of the two founders could be negatively perceived by the market and put her future under the blow. With Kaspersky, I agreed to talk about the divorce (according to rumors, the initiator of the gap was Eugene, as if he had left the family, having met another woman. - Approx.). For a whole year, we, as two partisans, were silent and formally remained husband and wife. About the section of business speech did not go at all.

- For you, it was a difficult decision?

- The company's interests for me have always been higher than personal experiences. "Kaspersky Lab" I perceived as my child, saw growth prospects. And let emotions sometimes shook, I understood that Kaspersky with Kaspersky were in such a bundle, which cannot be broken. Zhenya was an important link - a unique analyst, which is part of the top ten of the best information security experts. And I kept the whole business part.

"Kaspersky Lab"

In 1989, a graduate of the "Higher Red Band School of the KGB" (now - the Institute of Cryptography, Communications and Informatics of the Academy of the FSB of the Russian Federation) Evgeny Kaspersky "cured" his computer from the virus using the program he himself wrote. In 1991, his wife Natalia patented the AVP program (later "Kaspersky Anti-Virus") in the All-Russian author's society. In 1997, the spouses established the Kaspersky Lab. Two years later, the company increased its share on the Russian anti-virus market from 5 to 50%. The turnover of Kaspersky Lab for 2009 amounted to $ 480 million. It employs more than 1,700 specialists. According to the magazine "Finance", the state of Natalia Kaspersky is estimated at $ 462 million.

- It is said that the success of the Kaspersky Anti-Virus is your merit?

- The fact is that if there was no antivirus program, which was well caught viruses, there would be nothing to sell. My role as a leader was not the last, but I would not fully attribute my success. Business is teamwork.

- My ratings do not worry. I was disappointed in them. It seems to me that it would be interesting to make a rating of entrepreneurs who built a business from scratch, and to calculate how much money they earned. Another question is that such a rating is difficult to compile - information is usually closed. For example, how much is the "Kaspersky Lab"? $ 100 million or $ 5 billion? No one knows. This is CJSC whose shares are not sold. Therefore, when I saw myself in the ranking of billionaires, I was very surprised. I would be glad to see my millions in some more tangible form.

- Why didn't you change the surname?

- I got used to her. The divorce occurred two years after we stopped living together. By this time, I "overtook" documents on this surname and decided that I would not change it. In addition, I already knew me as Natalia Kasperskaya. To be honest, then at 20, leaving the first time married, I did not really wanted to change my maiden name. But Kaspersky said: "Then we go out of the registry office!" And the second husband to change the last name I was no longer inclined.

"You have two sons from marriage with Kaspersky and two daughters were born in marriage with Igor Ashmanov. How did you decide?

- I had a new family - how without children? If I got married a second time earlier, I would give birth, and so I have only four. I have something to compare with, and I can say that now it is easier to raise children. Instead of diaper - diapers, instead of washing in the pelvis - washing machines, give birth to health! In addition, communication with the child is so nice! Especially until he insists in his own opinion, it does not keep up with your foot, does not run away for the night: "Today the girl has a night." The first year is the best. Now the youngest Masha, she is a little more than a year, went. Disintegrates from the hands and runs away. Everything, my lathe ended.

"In the" Laboratory "of their children will not take"

- What do your sons do?

"The eldest son Maxim now finishes Geofak MSU, and I do not see my drive in it." While he does not set a clear goal. And sometimes it makes up the feeling that parents are concerned about his future more than he himself. With younger easier, he went through our, programmer, footsteps. It was settled in one company, something did not work there and he quickly left. I noticed that the children of successful people are quite often Malachol, inert: they have everything. I try to keep my own in a tone. I heard that secured Americans of their children "drive out to the street," forcing themselves to earn their studies and housing.

Children of successful people are quite often Malachol, inert: they have everything. But I try to keep my own in a tone.

- But you are not ready?

- Not sure. Although I say: you will finish the university and do not expect support from us. Next - myself.

- Are you a successful mom?

- Wait and see. That both sons themselves did. Vanya won the Olympics without exams, the eldest learns well too. But what they will deal in life - time will show. Of course, I would like to have someone to convey business. But in the Laboratory, I will not take them until the experience gains: still the surname obliges.

- Probably, you have nothing to dream about ...

- I'm not a dreamer at all. I have desires and goals. For example, now I really want to learn how to ride a snowboard.

Dossier:

Natalia Ivanovna Kasperskaya

• Born on February 5, 1966 in Moscow.
• In 1989, he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Electronic Engineering in the specialty "Applied Mathematics".
• In 1994 he headed the antivirus project of her husband in the company "Kami".
• In 1997, he became one of the founders and the general director of the Kaspersky Lab.
• In 2007, he took the chair of the Chairman of the Board of Directors. In the same year registered InfoWatch company.
• The second time is married. Husband - Businessman Igor Ashmanov.
• The mother of four children: from the first marriage - Maxim (21 years old) and Ivan (18 years old), from the second - Alexander (4 years) and Maria (1 year).

Kaspersky Labs, Kaspersky Labs, whose anti-virus programs are installed on almost every second computer, was able to consider the potential of a programmer's husband and the prospects of the IT direction in 1994. For the sake of preservation of business, Natalia Kasperskaya hid a long-time divorce and until 2011 remained the general director and co-owner of the Laboratory. Was able to build not only from scratch new familyBut also a new business group of companies InfoWatch, which made it possible to maintain the status of the most influential specialist in the IT world and become one of the richest women in Russia.

Dossier:

Detail

Today it is hard to figure out, the history of the success of Natalia Ivanovna Kasperskaya is a series of concrete circumstances or carefully thoughtful steps that helped a caring wife and mother of five children to become one of the most successful and rich women in Russia.

"Natalia's biography is very similar to the path to the embodiment of the American Dream. For several years, she was on child care leave, went to work, where in six years from the modest seller of computer equipment turned into a leader of the leading and promising company to create anti-virus programs, "Evgeny Kaspersky will say later.

And it all started with a violent desire to help a talented husband programmer. Feeling the taste of entrepreneurship, Natalia insists in 1997 at the opening of his own company, who received from her light hands Familia of a spouse. And almost independently, heading the "Kaspersky Lab", brings business to the global level.

Even after the dramatic divorce, the ideological split with the first husband and the difficult partition in the business in the business found the time to start all over again .

Investing in InfoWatch, which the businesswoman received as a share in the business section, Kasperskaya was able to bring the company to the leaders in the IT direction.

According to the owner, "at the time of start in 2003 there was only one name," and in 2015, according to Forbes, the infoWatch revenue exceeded 1 billion rubles.

Today (2017 - approx.) Natalya Kasperskaya is the co-owner not only the GK InfoWatch, but also jointly with Igor Ashmanov "Applying", "Cribrum", German company G Data Software AG, other high-tech companies, peasant farms "Green lamb." Actively participates in grant, public and government projects. He is a laureate and winner of Russian and international competitions in various business nominations. It includes more than 15 ratings of the most influential and successful people, including the "richest women of Russia", according to Forbes.ru

Source: Journal Forbes

Childhood and Youth: Activist, Athlete and Diligent Pupil

Natalia Ivanovna Kasperskaya, in Maiden's fitting, was born in a typical family of representatives of the Technical Intelligentsia. She became the late and only child of forever busy engineers who worked in the "closed" institutes.

However, her childhood and youth can not be called standard and boring. An ordinary schoolgirl was extremely active.

"Engaged social activities And even was a member of the district pioneer headquarters. In general, trips to the pioneer headquarters are one of the brightest memories of childhood: we have come up with something there all the time, satisfied the performances, made agitbrigada, went around the country, "- N. Kasperskaya

In the circle of its interests and standard children's hobbies collecting brands, badges, coins, singing in school chore and creative painting, writing poems. There was time and for sports, including swimming, ski run, professional basketball classes in Sports School.

Pondering O. future profession, Faced with the choice between the dream and opinion of the parents.

"I even seriously thought to choose a profession of a veterinarian, but in high schools faced with completely irresistible problems with chemistry. ... Parents - "Tehnari" ... Naturally, advised to enter the technical university, "- N. Kasperskaya

Therefore, the secondary school was already in the walls of MAI on the Physics and Mathematics Faculty. Eventually higher education He received on the faculty of applied mathematicians of the Moscow Institute of Electronic Engineering, having received a red diploma.

The first entrepreneurial experience, or "So the stars have developed"

Further fate The future top manager is closely connected with Evgeny Kaspersky, with whom she meets in 1987 during rest in the KGB sanatorium.

A rapid romance with joint fun holidays, campaigns, descents on kayaks logically ended with a wedding, but had his sad consequences. Eugene - a student of the Faculty of Higher School of the KGB - was distributed to the cheat, where the young wife was ready to go like a Decembrist.

Thanks to the intervention of mother-in-law, the Kaspersky family remained in Moscow, and Evgeny begins a career in the Ministry of Defense, where he gets acquainted with computer viruses.

Until 1994, a young wife is engaged in raising two sons. But begins to think about finding work.

"Business I started to deal exclusively by virtue of my own weakness. After six years spent at home with children, it is fascinated to sit in four walls. It was impossible. I consciously escaped from the house. From domestic difficulties, "- N. Kasperskaya

According to the very businesswoman, one of the main features of her character was lazy. Therefore, she went along the path of the least resistance - settled in 1994 to work in the company "Kami", where her husband worked at that time. Kaspersky was categorically against such a decision, as if felt the family cooperation could lead to. But she unequivocally decided to be near his spouse.

At first traded computer accessories, later software. To climb the career staircase and to become the head of the sales department, it was managed by promoting and registering the anti-virus product (AVP) developed by her husband.

"It was not easy. I did not understand computers, did not imagine what sales were, I did not have financial and managerial skills. Of course, the mistakes could not be avoided, I, for example, tried to sell everything personally, which is wrong ... Now I remember that time: people did not understand why buy software, if you can rewrite everything from a neighbor, "- N. Kasperskaya

How born the "Kaspersky Lab"

After a trip to Hannover and visits, CeBit offers her husband to enjoy their own business. Not finding support, herself opens in 1995 the company "Center Saving Data". However, business quickly burned.

The problems in, it would seem, a reliable, large and unspecified company "Kama" forced Kaspersky to make a choice. And he agrees with his wife to become the first in his own business, refusing the offer of the English company, where, despite the fame of the name, would be the second.

The history of Kaspersky Business Evgeny Valentinovich is filled with bright moments and resembles rapidly replacing pictures of Kaleidoscope. But the spouse played a special role in it.

Natalia made the main and decisive step at the time of choosing the name of the company. Scientific first unsuccessful entrepreneurial experience, she insisted on a sonorous name. Options like "Casper and Co" caused comic associations, while the name "Kaspersky Lab" immediately became recognizable in the computer world.

In the team of novice entrepreneurs, there were mainly programmers who were absolutely not interested in administrative work. Therefore, the Brazuds of the Board of the woman had to take into their own hands.

I received my work according to Blat, through family ties, Just getting married to a computer genius. Then I had to, however, sweat to turn a brilliant work into a business.

And she like a businessman everything turned out. Sales growth in the first years was 300%. The staff has expanded from 6 to 600 people, international contracts appeared, "Laboratory" received world recognition.

The head clearly calls the reasons for the success of the startup:

• The company successfully turned out to be the origins of the new market, where Kaspersky were the discoverers.
• The idea appeared at the right time when demand growth was simply incredible.
• Competitors wandered blindly, which put all the participants in equal conditions.

Companies, as in the life of people, much also depends on luck. If you want, from the location of the stars. You can study some business techniques for a long time, try to apply them, but if the "stars do not add up," it is unlikely that everything will be easily, "N. Kasperskaya laughs.

However, to control the rapidly developing business of one good luck was little. Catastrophically lacked knowledge, which pushed a woman to receive second education in the British Open University.

Divorce - collapse of hopes or business partnership

The first cracker in the relationship appeared immediately after creating a joint business. And the career growth of the wife and drastically different views on many things of spouses played a key role in the Kaspersky break, which occurred in 1997

Officially issued a divorce in 1998, hiding more than a year from the true situation.

"Our discrepancy was quite a big blow, ... We risked everything to lose everything, but somehow they were able to resist, disseminate personal from public, so let's say, from business, separate it," - N. Kasperskaya

Natalia continues to lead the ex-spouse business and in 2000 becomes the general director of the firm. It is with her turns of the "laboratory" grew by space rates.

The ideological split with Kaspersky led to Natalia's displacement in 2007 from the post of Director General and to complete parting in 2011 after the sale of the stakes remaining.