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Today is the Day of Family, Love and Fidelity - our Russian answer to the Western Valentine's Day. Our holiday is also associated with the saints - Peter and Fevronia of Murom, they are considered the patrons of the family, and their marriage is a model of love, matrimony and harmony. Peter and Fevronia had five children: four sons and a sweet daughter. In honor of today's holiday, we decided to talk about modern well-known large families.

The Raskovalov family, four children

Vadim and Yana Raskovalov met at a social event and already in the early 2000s officially formalized their relationship. The wedding took place at the Catherine Palace in Tsarskoye Selo.

Vadim Raskovalov is a former owner of a network of St. Petersburg fitness clubs, and now a co-owner of Podium. Yana is not only a great mother, she has her own brand Yana Raskovalova, where she brings her author's ideas to life.

The couple now has four children - three daughters and one son. Yana gave birth to her fourth child recently, and from the first days after the birth she is in great shape. Even on recent months pregnancy, the jeweler and designer showed her body in fashion shoots without hesitation - and it is not surprising, because even in an interesting position the blonde looked great.

The Kaspersky-Ashmanov family, five children

Natalya Kasperskaya met Igor Ashmanov back in 1996, at the CeBIT exhibition in Hannover, while still married to Evgeny Kaspersky. As Natalya recalls, they began dating Igor three or four years after her divorce from her husband, and in 2001 they legalized their union.

Igor Ashmanov is a Managing Partner, CEO of Ashmanov & Partners, one of the founders and the most famous top managers of the Russian IT industry.

Since October 2007, Natalya Kasperskaya has been the CEO and majority owner of InfoWatch. This company was part of her share in the division of business with her ex-husband.

Natalia has two sons from her first marriage - Ivan and Maxim, and three daughters from her second - Maria, Varvara and Alexandra.

In interviews, Natalia often says that she would like to spend more time with her family, but business is another child of hers that needs to be looked after all the time. At the same time, Natalya believes that it is children who give a person an understanding that someone needs him, that there is someone to work for. And Natalya calls children her true value.

Vodianov-Arno family

Antoine first saw Natalya in 2008 - at that time she was married to British lord Justin Portman. Arno then headed the communications department of the Louis Vuitton fashion house, and Vodianova starred for advertising campaign this brand. For Antoine, it was love at first sight. But he decided to write to Natalya only when he read in the newspapers that she was divorced.

Thanks to Natalia, Arno truly discovered Russia for himself, began to better understand his beloved.

Natalia is sure that Antoine has a very strong sense of empathy. And that's why they love each other so much - they both have something important, something in common in their souls.

The couple has two sons - Maxim and Roman. Natalia also has three children from her marriage to Justin Portman - Lucas Alexander, Neva, Victor.

Arno jokes that thanks to Natalia, five children appeared in his life in two and a half years. At the same time, he quite seriously claims that this is the best thing that happened in his life.

The Thompson family, six children

Olga came to America at the age of 14. She studied at the ballet school in California, then at the art history department of Stanford University, worked at the Legion of Honor Museum as an exhibition curator. Her chosen one was the English photographer Charles Thompson. They met in New York in 2000, and in 2002 they got married in Yasnaya Polyana. In choosing the venue for the celebration, apparently, Olga's passion for Tolstoy's work played a big role.

The family loves to travel around Russia - they were in the Tver region, in Vladimir, in Suzdal, they love to look for old dilapidated buildings. According to Charles, he sees in them layers of previous realities superimposed on each other. The whole family speaks excellent Russian.

Charles is still a professional photographer. Olga is a co-owner of Tissus Tartares, a designer fabric company.

Now the couple has six children - Tatyana, Alexander, Anastasia, Maria, Anna, Natalya.

The Thompsons often attend social events. So, for example, last year the whole family was seen at the Tatler debutante ball.

Aminov family

Stella and Vadim Aminov formalized their relationship in 2002. They have six children.

Vadim Aminov is a member of the board of directors of Neftetransservice, and his fortune in 2014 was estimated at $0.7 billion. Together with his wife, he owns a part of the shares of the Simachev brand, Stella's business is also developing and bringing in a good income. Stella is an example of a modern woman who successfully combines raising children and business - she is the owner of the Five Kids boutique.

Photographer: Lena Sarapultseva

Over the years living together Stella Aminova's husband transported his family several times from one country to another until they settled in Russia.

Aminov always wanted to have big family and his dream came true. But Stella always dreamed of a career. The couple now have six children. Daniel Nathan, twins Miriam and Rachel, Joseph and Aron.

Stella Aminova is very caring mother, and with each subsequent child, her sense of responsibility for children only increases. If she and her husband go somewhere, they definitely take the children with them, except, of course, for social events and events that do not involve a children's society.

We hasten to congratulate all couples with this wonderful holiday, glorifying love and strong relationships. We wish you all a long and happy union!

The material was prepared by Polina Rtishcheva and Ilnara Sagandykova

Beautiful and large - on the Day of love, family and fidelity was last modified: August 9th, 2017 by Polina Rtishcheva

Kasperskaya Natalya Ivanovna – CEO of the InfoWatch Group of Companies, co-founder of Kaspersky Lab

Biography

In 1997, together with ex-husband Evgeny Kaspersky Natalia Kasperskaya founded the Kaspersky Lab company and became its CEO. For 10 years, under the leadership of Natalia Kaspersky, Kaspersky Lab has gone from an unknown startup to one of the leaders in the international IT market with a turnover of half a billion (in dollar terms).

In 2003, Kaspersky Lab created a subsidiary company, InfoWatch, which was engaged in developments in the field of protecting enterprises from information leaks. In 2007, Natalya Kasperskaya took the post of CEO in this company. In the same year, at the initiative of Natalia, InfoWatch begins active expansion, first to the European, and then to the Middle East and Asian markets.

From 2009 to 2013, Natalya Kasperskaya headed the working group on information and communication technologies within the framework of the Federal Target Program "Research and Development in Priority Areas of Development of the Scientific and Technological Complex of Russia for 2007-2013" of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation.

In 2010, at the initiative of Natalia, InfoWatch, together with Ashmanov & Partners, created a subsidiary, Kribrum, which develops a service for monitoring and analyzing the reputation of companies, brands, and persons in the media space.

In 2011, with the acquisition of the German company cynapspro GmbH, which develops products for protecting corporate network workstations, Natalia transformed InfoWatch into a holding company of the same name.

In early 2012, Natalia became a shareholder of the Canadian company Appercut, which became part of the InfoWatch holding. Appercut is developing a software product designed to automatically audit the source code of custom business applications for vulnerabilities and bookmarks.

In October 2012, Natalya Kasperskaya invested in shares and joined the board of directors of the German anti-virus company G Data Software AG.

In 2013, Natalya Kasperskaya invested in the Russian startup Taiga, which was part of the InfoWatch Group of Companies. Taiga designs innovation system protection mobile devices from tracking and stealing information.

Led by Natalia Kaspersky InfoWatch became the recognized leader of the DLP market in Russia and CIS countries.

Family

Natalia is married for the second time. Husband - businessman Igor Ashmanov, a specialist in the field of artificial intelligence, development software, project management. Natalia Kasperskaya has five children, two sons from her first marriage and three daughters from her second.

Achievements, awards

Natalya Kasperskaya is a laureate of numerous prestigious international awards in the field of information technologies:

Laureate of the prestigious international award "Russian Business Leader of the Year" for merits in the development of the Russian IT industry according to Horasis, the Global visions community.

Winner of the Women in Technology Awards EMEA 2014, in the nomination "Best Information Technology Entrepreneur".

Nominated by the British edition of BRIC Magazine for the title of the most influential person in Russia in the first quarter of 2015 for his contribution to the development of the IT industry.

Laureate of the "Information Security of the Bank" award 2015.

Natalia Kasperskaya actively invests in the development of high-tech companies, is a member of the advisory boards of:

- Russian Venture Company,

Department of Strategy, Analysis and Forecast of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.

Member of the board:

Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP),

Association of Software Developers (ARPP) "Domestic Soft".

Member of:

Expert Council on Russian Software under the Ministry of Communications and mass communications RF,

Working subgroup "Internet + society" under the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation,

Grant Committee of the Skolkovo Foundation,

Skoltech Board of Trustees,

Union of machine builders of Russia,

Information Protection Association (IPA),

Associations of Experts information security BISA,

Board of Trustees of the Eurasian Cancer Foundation (EAFO).

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Perhaps Evgeny Kaspersky would have remained a talented, but little-known programmer, if not for his ex-wife Natalya. It was she who established the successful sale of her husband's IT developments. And if the business began to flourish, then the Kaspersky family broke up. But Natalya and Evgeny managed to maintain their relationship and are still co-owners of Kaspersky Lab.

Divorce is not a hindrance to business

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

We both understood that the company was very dear to us. At that time, "Laboratory" was a little more than a year she just started to rise. The divorce of the two founders could be negatively perceived by the market and put her future at risk. Kaspersky and I agreed not to tell anyone about the divorce (according to rumors, Eugene was the initiator of the break, as if he had left the family after meeting another woman. - Note). For a whole year, we, like two partisans, were silent and formally remained husband and wife. There was no talk of a business section at all.

Was it a difficult decision for you?

- The interests of the company for me have always been above personal experiences. I perceived Kaspersky Lab as my child, I saw growth prospects. And even though emotions sometimes went wild, I understood that Kaspersky and I found ourselves in such a bond that cannot be broken. Zhenya was an important link - a unique analyst, one of the world's top ten best experts on information security. And the whole business part rested on me.

"Kaspersky Lab"

In 1989, a graduate of the Higher Red Banner 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 of a virus using a program that he wrote himself. In 1991, his wife Natalya patented the AVP program (later Kaspersky Anti-Virus) in the All-Russian Authors' Society. In 1997, the couple established Kaspersky Lab. Two years later, the company increased its share of the Russian antivirus market from 5% to 50%. Turnover of "Kaspersky Lab" for 2009 made $480 million. More than 1700 experts work in it. According to Finance magazine, Natalia Kasperskaya's fortune is estimated at $462 million.

- They say that the success of Kaspersky Anti-Virus is your merit?

The thing is, if it wasn't for antivirus program, which caught viruses well, there would be nothing to sell. My role as a leader was not the last, but I would not completely attribute success to myself. Business is teamwork.

I don't care about ratings. I was disappointed in them. It seems to me that it would be interesting to rank entrepreneurs who have built a business from scratch and calculate how much money they have earned. Another issue is that it is difficult to compile such a rating - the information, as a rule, is closed. For example, how much does Kaspersky Lab cost? $100 million or $5 billion? No one knows. This is a CJSC whose shares are not for sale. 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 your last name?

- I'm used to it. The divorce happened about two years after we stopped living together. By this time, I had “overgrown” with documents for this surname and decided that I would not change it. In addition, they already knew me as Natalya Kasperskaya. To be honest, even at the age of 20, getting married for the first time, I didn’t really want to change my maiden name. But Kaspersky said: “Then we are leaving the registry office!” And the second husband did not persuade me to change my surname.

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

- I got new family– how without children? If I had married a second time earlier, I would have given birth again, 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 diapers - diapers, instead of washing in a basin - washing machines, give birth to health! Besides communication with the child is so nice! Especially until he insists on his own opinion, does not stomp on you with his foot, does not run away for the night: “Tonight I am sleeping with a girl.” The first year is the best. Now the youngest Masha, she is a little over a year old, has gone. Gets out of hand and runs away. Everything, my lafa is over.

“I won’t take my children to the “Laboratory”

What are your sons doing?

- The eldest son Maxim is now graduating from the Faculty of Geology of Moscow State University, and I do not see my drive in him. As long as he does not set himself clear goals. And I sometimes get the feeling that his parents are more concerned about his future than he is. With the younger one it's easier, he followed in our programmer's footsteps. I got a job in one firm, something didn’t work out there and he quickly left. I noticed that children successful people quite often scatterbrained, inert: they have everything. I try to keep mine in good shape. I heard that wealthy Americans “drive their children out into the street”, forcing them to earn their own money for study and housing.

Children of successful people are quite often sloppy, inert: they have everything. But I try to keep mine in good shape.

"But you're not ready?"

- Not sure. Although I say: you will graduate from the university and do not expect support from us. Further - himself.

Are you a successful mom?

- Wait and see. Both sons did it themselves. Vanya won the Olympiad without exams, the elder is also a good student. But what they will do in life - time will tell. Of course, I would like to have someone to transfer cases. But I will not take them to the "Laboratory" until they gain experience: nevertheless, the surname obliges.

- You probably have nothing to dream about ...

“I am not a dreamer at all. I have desires and goals. For example, now I really want to learn how to snowboard well.

DOSSIER:

Natalya Ivanovna Kasperskaya

• She was born on February 5, 1966 in Moscow.
• In 1989 she graduated from the Moscow Institute of Electronic Engineering with a degree in applied mathematics.
• In 1994, she headed her husband's anti-virus project at KAMI.
• In 1997, she became one of the founders and CEO of Kaspersky Lab.
• In 2007, she took the chair of the board of directors. In the same year, she registered InfoWatch.
• Second time married. Husband - businessman Igor Ashmanov.
• Mother of four children: from the first marriage - Maxim (21 years old) and Ivan (18 years old), from the second - Alexandra (4 years old) and Maria (1 year old).

The most influential and authoritative woman in the country in the field of information technology was the co-founder of the famous global company Kaspersky Lab. Natalya Kasperskaya is one of the richest women in Russia and the mother of five children. Now she works as the CEO of the InfoWatch group of companies, which she founded after leaving the IT giant (Kaspersky Lab).

early years

Natalya Ivanovna Kasperskaya (nee Shtutser) was born on February 5, 1966 in Moscow. Parents are engineers by profession, they worked at one of the closed defense institutes. Father, Ivan Mikhailovich, was in charge of the laboratory. One of her ancestors, great-grandfather Ivan Ivanovich Shtutser, was the author of a popular geography textbook of the 19th century.

AT school years She was distinguished by increased social activity and was respected by her classmates. She was a member of the council of the school pioneer team, then went on to be promoted to the regional pioneer headquarters. In high school, she was elected by the Komsomol.

An active Komsomol member, she played basketball at a children's and youth sports school for five years. The girl quite seriously wanted to become a veterinarian, but soon she had to give up this dream. Natalya was not very good at studying chemistry. In the eighth grade, her parents decided to transfer her from an ordinary secondary school to a school with a physical and mathematical bias at the Moscow Aviation Institute (Moscow aviation institute).

Carier start

After graduating from school, she entered the Moscow State University. But according to the results of the entrance exams, she did not pass the competition, missing half a point. I translated the documents to the Moscow Institute of Electronic Engineering (MIEM), where these grades were enough for admission. Natalya Kasperskaya studied at the Faculty of Applied Mathematics from 1984 to 1989. Graduate work was devoted to mathematical modeling of the cooling process of a nuclear reactor. Later she received a bachelor's degree in business from the Open University in the UK.

After graduating from the institute, Natalya was assigned researcher to the Moscow Central Scientific and Design Bureau. She worked for only six months, after which she left for maternity leave. Labor biography Natalya Kasperskaya's career in information technology began in 1994 when she was 28. A young woman was hired as a software salesperson in a new store opened by a former lecturer, Yevgeny Kaspersky, from the Higher School of the KGB of the USSR. Wage was about $50.

Business development

Since the fall of 1994, Natalia Ivanovna Kasperskaya has been responsible for sales of AVP (AntiViral Toolkit Pro) antivirus as a department head. Since 1991, the program has been developed by a team of programmers led by her husband. Thanks to her activity over the next few years, we managed to create good distribution channels for the software product, organize technical support and start expanding into foreign markets.

Starting with sales of $100-$200 per month in 1994, the company reached over $130,000 a year later. Sales of the product began to grow rapidly, in 1996 amounting to more than 600 thousand, and next year- more than a million. The profit was divided equally between the Kaspersky team and the parent company. By 1997, the Kaspersky couple realized the potential of the business and decided to separate into an independent business.

Creation of Kaspersky Lab

In the summer of 1997, Natalya Ivanovna Kasperskaya initiated the organization of Kaspersky Lab. It was on her initiative that the company got its name. For more than 10 years she has worked as the CEO of Kaspersky Lab. In an IT company, she owned 10% of the shares, 50% - Eugene and 20% each went to two programmers-developers. Antivirus sales continued to grow rapidly, reaching $67 million in 2006.

In 2007, she was removed from the management of the Laboratory due to a divorce and disagreements with Evgeny. Natalia remained in the company as the chairman of the established board of directors. By 2011, she finally parted ways with Kaspersky Lab., her shares were bought out by other shareholders. Under the leadership of Natalia, the once small Russian IT company has grown into a global corporation with offices around the world. Capitalization in 2011 was estimated at $1.3 billion with annual revenue of $700 million. Natalia's personal fortune was estimated at 220-270 million USD. e.

Organization of your business

After the division of the business, as part of the payment, she got the company InfoWatch. Natalya Kasperskaya decided to start developing the company's software product, which was aimed at protecting the data of large businesses and was intended for corporations with at least 300 stations. After the arrival of the new management, sales began to grow by 60-70% per year.

Today, Infowatch has grown into a group of companies dedicated to protecting businesses from insider threats and targeted external attacks. The group occupies approximately 50% of the local market for confidential data. Regular customers are large Russian state structures, private and state corporations. The company is actively developing foreign markets, developing business in Europe, the Middle East and Southeast Asia.

She is not in a hurry - although the assistants plan her daily schedule literally by the minute. He answers all questions simply - although in life and in business he solves problems of almost prohibitive complexity. Tall, with a perfect posture, a calm smile and an even, deep voice, she involuntarily makes you want to imitate her - although you understand that copying here is most likely impossible.

Natalya Kasperskaya is the owner of the InfoWatch group of companies, co-founder of Kaspersky Lab, one of the richest women in Russia and the mother of five children. After college, still undecided on a career, she gave birth to two sons and went part-time as a software salesman. Having felt the taste of entrepreneurship, it was she who saw the commercial potential in the fact that her first husband Evgeny “sitting and coding”, and in 1997 she insisted on creating her own company. Thanks to this, literally on every computer today there is a famous antivirus. And his “godmother”, who turned a startup into a international corporation with cosmic turnover, then managed to survive a dramatic divorce and a difficult division of shares in the business, resigned as CEO ... and started again from scratch. Or rather, from the development of a fundamentally different concept for her new company, InfoWatch, which, according to Kaspersky, “had only one name at the time of launch.”

M.C.: Natalia, today Marie Claire is celebrating its 20th anniversary in Russia – and you created the first big business, then changed course and built their own grand career. When you started, there was no such excitement around information technology as it is now, this industry has not yet been called a “dream job” and a “portal to the future”. How and when did you realize that you wanted to work in IT?

Natalia Kasperskaya: I think this happened two or three years after we founded Kaspersky Lab. That is, around the beginning of the 2000s, when it became clear that she had already survived both the first and second crises, and we were in the middle of the third. In general, difficulties of different levels and crises are normal at the beginning of a startup. Then I began to understand that I was here for a long time, that I would do this all my life. In fact, I remained in the field of information security - although I later left Kaspersky Lab.

Luck and perseverance

When they ask you about secrets successful business, you say that it is important to catch "subtle signals of luck" ...

I wouldn't say very thin. (Laughs) They are quite specific. Probably, in companies, as in people's lives, a lot also depends on luck. From the position of the stars, if you like. You can study some business methods for a long time, try to apply them, but if the “stars do not add up”, it is unlikely that everything will be easy.

You do not want to say that you read horoscopes at work, do you?

No, I don't read at all. (Laughs.) And I do not believe in horoscopes - I think that this is complete nonsense. But luck, of course, is, and it is predetermined by clear factors. For example, it is important at what point you enter the market. That's right - this is at the time of the initial growth of the market. Well, if the country has a very good situation with personnel. And there are opportunities that no one has yet discovered, and you have already found them. But the question is - how much do we know such people who fall into desired point? There are very few of them, enchanting career ups are a rarity. In the IT world, this is Bill Gates and his Microsoft, Steve Jobs and his Apple, Brin with Page and Google. Note that Gates and Jobs, peers, started at the same time and in a situation where there was already a need for computers for the population, but there were no normal means. Computers were at that time too complex, cumbersome, inconvenient to use. In fact, both, albeit in different ways, came to offer the public private computers for home use. And as a result, mega-corporations with multibillion-dollar turnovers were born. In another example, Dell figured out how to assemble efficiently and came up with a unique model for selling PCs directly, thereby drastically lowering the price of PCs and making them even more affordable. And she also found a place in the market - it turned out to take off. Google, which, by the way, was not the first in search engines(there were already four or five search engines), came up with an algorithm that was head and shoulders above everything else on the market. And because of this, they were able to fly.
In summary, we can say that the secret of a great business is when you do something very what people need, what in this moment implemented either insufficiently well or not implemented at all. I like this comparison: as if you were swimming along the river and fell into a rapid - you will be carried further without your will, and you just need to row so as not to be thrown out of the stream.

And if the flow does not carry?

Then you fight somewhere in the backwater, trying to pull out, and you are thrown back by a wave, and everything moves extremely complicated and slowly. Here, for example, InfoWatch is such a difficult child, we did not immediately manage to fit into the rapids. We had to wallow at the shore for a long time - then crises covered us, then the market stopped growing and we had to spend a lot of effort on its development, then suddenly new competitors appeared out of nowhere.

So it's not just luck?

Well, you have to be stubborn, of course.

Which of your accomplishments are you most proud of?

You know, InfoWatch has grown almost three and a half times over the past three years. And the project was really very difficult, a constant struggle, from the first day. I took it in 2007, practically from scratch I began to understand. A year later, I began to understand something in business - and then there was a crisis, sales fell by 60%. We release new version- does not work. You have to roll back to the old one and at the same time completely rebuild the entire development. And then everything in the same spirit! Pulled out one wheel - stuck others. The fact that the project is now moving and even flying is a colossal achievement.

Money and risk

I often communicate with Marie Claire readers - many of them have already succeeded in business, others dream of it. How do you know if it's "yours" or "not yours"?

And there is no need to understand. If a person has this tendency, it will definitely manifest itself. To do this, at least two qualities must converge - the love of money and the love of risk. If it is, most likely, the person has the makings of an entrepreneur. You can talk about other features, but these two are the main ones.

Well, everyone probably loves money, but most would like to protect themselves from risks ...

And entrepreneurship is generally a story about risk. Primarily. You make something new, go to market with it, and the probability of a new product failure is over 90%. This must be understood. How, for example, does the venture capital market work? Companies create new products, go to venture capitalists and ask them for funding. Capitalists look at these companies very carefully, select business projects and invest in those that they consider the best. As a result, a good venture capitalist, on average, has the following ratio: only one company out of ten shoots, makes a breakthrough, really brings in big money. Three-four, depending on luck, go neither shaky nor rolls, and the rest simply disappear. That is, only half of the “live” companies remain in the portfolio, of which three or four have to be constantly supported, and only one takes off. But this one pays for the costs of all the others. And note that only a tenth of all applicants get into the portfolio of a venture capitalist - there is a very careful selection. And for risky investors (who invest according to the principle of three "F" - "family, friends, fools"), the success rate is even less - 1:15.

That is, first of all, you need a strong nervous system. And what else?

Those who are afraid of risk should not even try. And yet, if a person starts his own business, he must be well versed in it. Although history knows different cases. For example, when a person began to engage in agriculture, being a candidate of physical and mathematical sciences. (Laughs.) He just became interested, he delved into all the processes, spent a lot of time on it, did not give in to difficulties - and he succeeded.

Strength and balance

Do you think there is such a thing as "women's business"?

I think so: women are more open to people than men, they are able to feel and hear them better, they are more relationship-oriented. Although this rule is not for everyone - and among women there are those who spoil everything in any relationship.

Does the focus on relationships help or hinder more?

It's not always the same. When you need to be tough, maybe it's harder for a woman. When you need to build relationships, it's easier. I think, as always, you need to strike a balance. If a woman knows that she has a soft character, it is better to have a partner who will take a hard line. Or find an assistant, for example, a strong head of security - the risks must be reduced. This rule works not only for women, but for any manager. You need to understand your weak sides and to select as assistants people who have these sides - strong.

Do you have effective communication techniques?

Not sure. It seems to me that as a woman, first of all, I have the ability to listen. It is difficult when the points of view of subordinates differ greatly and it is necessary to bring them together somehow. Because I am categorically against violent measures. A person cannot be ordered to do something against his will. It will be inefficient and end badly. So, you need to convince. If this fails, I suggest: let's try your own way, and we'll see. Very often a person tries, then comes and admits: okay, let's do it your way. (Laughs.) However, I often turn out to be wrong. And this is also good - it gives me the opportunity to learn.

Threats and protection

How to keep up with new technologies today? How do you feel about new gadgets?

We are engaged in protection and in this sense we are in the rearguard of information technology. Protection always appears "after". Suppose a new gadget appears on the market. At first everyone is delighted, and then it turns out that the new super-technology has dual-use capabilities - for espionage, for stealing information, or new Trojans that are not recognized by current antiviruses work for them. Therefore, I do not like new gadgets - I think they are a priori unsafe, we just do not know these threats yet. So my husband and I were discussing whether to buy a new car. But I don’t want to - there is built-in Wi-Fi, the ability to remotely control, as in all modern cars. Now the car, like the computer, is subject to computer viruses. So I'll sit in my car until it breaks down (laughs).

Your business works to protect information, and today the trend is just the opposite: people tell everything about themselves, it’s as if there is no person if he doesn’t broadcast on social networks 24 hours a day...

Yes unfortunately. And such people then become victims of their talkativeness. Recently, a company announced that they allegedly released a tool that can determine a person's credit score by looking at a person's face. I don’t know how accurately this can be determined by the face, but from the posts in social network it is not difficult to establish the level of solvency of the subject. The task is purely technical, and the more he tells about himself, the more information for all the curious, including, of course, scammers. The less privacy, the more risk.

If I write on Facebook, then it passes the control of PR people. Our marketing service is in charge of posting, and I give content on a case-by-case basis. I see the social network as another communication channel - like your magazine, for example.

An article is circulating on the Internet that Silicon Valley gurus allegedly do not buy electronic gadgets for their children and generally give them to schools where they write with chalk on a blackboard. And how do you raise your children in this regard?

I think that this is very correct - I would also ban all electronics in schools, at least in the lower grades. For example, paper diaries were canceled for a daughter in the second grade, which means that someone writes assignments for her in in electronic format, the child gets used to the fact that he does not need to remember anything, does not rely on his memory. Modern children are already absent-minded, there are too many distractions. Our eldest daughter is 11 years old, she has a computer, tablet, smartphone. I would not buy this either, but here we have a discrepancy with my husband - he believes that a child should be brought up in the style of modern information technologies. Indeed, it is very difficult to limit this: if you do not buy anything, children will still find access to the Internet. Moreover, the forbidden fruit is sweet, and the child may think that it is there, under lock and key, that the magic door to the shining world, where there are no dangers.

And how are you doing?

It is wrong to completely ban gadgets. It is better to increase employment - for example, we have eldest daughter is engaged in dancing, music, English, drawing, modeling ... And of course, to explain: “You go online, they meet different people, including the bad ones. You don’t have to make contact, and you certainly shouldn’t let yourself be drawn into something.” In my opinion, information security should be taught with kindergarten to build immunity to school. It's like knowing the rules traffic. It is possible to explain different levels: the tale of Little Red Riding Hood is also about the fact that you don’t have to get acquainted with just anyone.

Family and career

How do you manage to take care of children, business at the same time and at the same time follow new technologies, trends, etc.?

I do not study new items personally - there is a special analytical department for this. And then my task as a leader is to understand what is worth doing. We try quite a lot different technologies, we study startups - a couple of companies were bought in this way.

How is your day, week?

It's very simple: there is a secretary who does the planning, taking into account my requirements. For example, several complex meetings for one day should not be set, and if there are many, then it is advisable to schedule them in one place. Twice a week I set aside time for writing texts and reading mail. I read the mail every day even in the evening. Weekends I try to spend with children in the country - this is a must. If I am invited somewhere on business these days, as a rule, I refuse. Well, then how it goes. It is clear that I can not be in time everywhere.

You and your husband are in the same business. Do you manage to leave work problems outside the doorstep?

Not always - production meetings periodically occur at home. And it's good if everything ends without a fight! (Laughs.) But somehow Igor and I manage to keep a balance. This is part of life, your own enterprise - like another child. True, I have not one, but a group of companies. So there are still children to take care of.

And what, even for the sake of business, are you not ready to sacrifice?

Family, children are sacred. Although you don't realize it right away. I have two "lots" of children - two sons are already adults, and when they grew up, I took less care of them. I spent a lot of time on Kaspersky Lab. Now I regret that I did not give the children what I could.

Are you one of richest women Russia. Money for you - what is it?

A resource with which you can do many different useful things.

And for yourself personally?

Well, of course, I can’t say that I wear bast shoes. There are such businessmen, very greedy, who do not spend on themselves at all - I am not one of them. But I think that it is necessary to satisfy basic needs, provide a certain standard of living for yourself and your family, and spend everything else on business entertainment - new products, companies, technologies.

Let's say you have a favorite brand of clothing?

I have an interesting relationship with brands in general because I know how to build them. You can take some thing and make a brand out of it. Therefore, I do not remember them and do not tremble before them. I choose clothes from what I like. I can remember: here in this I was comfortable. But next time, maybe I'll buy something completely different.

What will you say today to girls who would like to repeat your success?

I am afraid to give abstract advice. This is a kind of craftiness, and quite harmful. Life is multifaceted, people are different, situations are different. Perhaps the only advice that I like to repeat is that modern women are often addicted to their careers and do not think about children, about family, they put it off “for later”. And this is a mistake. No matter how much you make your career, it will eventually end anyway. It is better to have relatives next to you. Joyful children's clatter outside the door when you come home from work - nothing can be better than this!

Natalya Kasperskaya: dossier

Natalia Kasperskaya
Age: 51 years old
Family: husband, two sons and three daughters
Education: Faculty of Applied Mathematics MIEM; UK Open University School of Business
Career: from a seller of accessories and software to CEO of Kaspersky Lab., then President of the InfoWatch group of companies
Hobby: guitar playing, amateur song
Sport: skiing, snowboard, fitness
Clothing: the one you like, regardless of the brand
Trips: regular business trips around the world