Kasperskaya Natalia Ivanovna Business lady Natalia Kasperskaya. Interview. Childhood and youth: activist, sportswoman and diligent student

She was born on February 5, 1966 in Moscow. As a child, Natalya favored animals and dreamed of becoming a veterinarian, but categorically did not work out with chemistry at school. But everything was in perfect order with mathematics, and her parents - a mother, a design engineer, and a physico-mathematical father-candidate - predicted a great future for Natalya on a technical path. Even before entering the institute, Natalia showed herself to be a leader - she was engaged in active pioneering and social activities.

After listening to her parents, Kaspersky entered the specialty "Applied Mathematics" of the Moscow Institute of Electronic Engineering. In 1989 she received her diploma. Subsequently, she received a bachelor's degree from the Open University in the UK, majoring in Business.

Before going into sales and management, Natalya worked for several years at the Central Scientific and Design Bureau of Moscow as a private researcher. While still a student, she met the talented programmer Evgeny Kaspersky, and when in 1994 the opportunity arose to go to work at the Kami Science and Technology Center - the one where Evgeny began his career - Kaspersky seized the opportunity. In "Kami" she took up an unusual activity for herself. At first, Natalya worked as a sales manager in the computer equipment department, but soon she was transferred to manage the anti-virus development department, where Evgeny Kaspersky worked on AVP.

By 1997 - when Kaspersky's anti-virus product began to be sold, and things at the Kami Research and Development Center had completely deteriorated - Natalya raised the issue of separating and creating her own company. Eugene Kaspersky at first grumbled and did not want any changes - they say, they will only interfere with the work on the project. But Natalia still persuaded her husband.

In 1997, the Kaspersky Lab company appeared. Evgeniy acted according to the principle of "the idea ... of the initiator" - he threw all organizational responsibility on Kaspersky and returned to software development. At first, Natalya Kaspersky had a hard time. But she managed. And in 1998, hired technical, commercial and financial directors came to her aid.

In 1998, the family of Natalia and Evgeny fell apart under the pressure of everyday squabbles. This did not seem to affect the company. Until 2007, the leadership and responsibility for the activity of Kaspersky Lab in the market lay mainly on the shoulders of CEO Natalya Kaspersky. In 2007, as a major shareholder, she was elected to the post of head of the board of directors, while Evgeny took the place of general director.

In 2004, in parallel with her work at the "Laboratory", Natalia began to develop another area of ​​activity - the development of data protection systems in corporate intranet networks (DLP systems). After 3 years, Kaspersky took over as CEO of the company she founded. by InfoWatch- developer and distributor of such systems. Today, this company has a huge potential for expansion into Western markets. In Russia, InfoWatch became the first in its field.

In Russia, the successful work of Natalya Kaspersky was noted in 2008. She was ranked 4th in the top 10 most successful businesswomen in the country. By this time, Natalia already had many awards from foreign IT publications. In the same year, Kaspersky was elected a member of the Russian-German Chamber of Commerce. By the way, in 2010, Natalya Kasperskaya won the second place among the best top managers in the Russian IT industry.

In business, Natalia appreciates teamwork. As a leader, she knows how to listen to the opinions of specialists before committing rash acts. At the same time, she does not accept all kinds of team building and other “nonsense” inspired from abroad. Work with Russian programmers requires a completely different approach, and Kaspersky is aware of this. In the "Laboratory" developers were never chastised for being late, but they had to do their part on time.

Married to Evgeny Kaspersky, Natalya became the mother of two children. After the divorce, she began to live with a prominent IT figure Igor Ashmanov. By 2011, she became the mother of two more children. The last daughter Masha was born in March 2009. A month earlier, fans of Kaspersky Anti-Virus had presented Natalya with a comic list of possible names for the child, each of which somehow related to the anti-virus area.

Natalia Kasperskaya knows two well foreign languages- German and English. Often travels on vacation ski resorts, is interested in tourism and travel. Natalia plays the guitar well.

Kasperskaya Natalya Ivanovna

Kasperskaya (Stutser) Natalya Ivanovna- CEO of InfoWatch - a developer of systems for protecting confidential information from internal threats. For more than 10 years she was the head of Kaspersky Lab.

Biography

Natalya Ivanovna Shtutser (later Kasperskaya) was born on February 5, 1966. Parents are typical representatives of the “technical intelligentsia”. only child was born late by those standards: his father was already 46 years old, his mother - 30. Parents are engineers, worked in "closed" institutes, always busy.

Played sports in my youth long time I played basketball at the Youth Sports School. In winter, she went skiing in the Moscow region, and in summer she was fond of swimming. She also collected stamps, badges and Soviet coins, painted portraits of her friends and sang in the school choir.

In an interview, Natalya Kasperskaya said that she dreamed of becoming a veterinarian:

“I really enjoyed working with animals. I even seriously thought about choosing such a profession, but when I moved to high school, I started having completely insurmountable problems with chemistry. And since my parents are “techies”, there was no special alternative. Naturally, I was advised to enter a technical university.”

last two school years studied at the Physics and Mathematics School at the Moscow Aviation Institute, 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 at the Kami Research and Development Center, where she headed the AVP anti-virus project.

1997: Co-founder of Kaspersky Lab

In 1997, Natalia convinced her husband to start his own company and make the name a brand. The founding father worked technical part. Natalya Kasperskaya became the CEO of Kaspersky Lab and was engaged in sales, personnel and access to international markets.

Six people initially worked in Kaspersky Lab, but gradually it grew to international group companies headquartered in Moscow, ten foreign representative offices and a staff of more than 500 people. To questions like: “What is the success of the company?”, “Who did more for success?” etc. Natalia was responsible for her life dozens of times. The company came at the right time in right place, very successful - there was just a growth of the market, that is, the market was still new, this is the first. Secondly, in Russia it was not opened at all, that is, the Kasperskys, in fact, were the pioneers in this sense in the field software. The third is that the competitors also did not know where to go, that is, everyone wandered blindly and made just as many mistakes. All were on an equal footing.

In October 2007, Natalya Kasperskaya became the company's CEO and sole owner of InfoWatch, a developer of systems for protecting confidential information from insider threats.

2011: Sale of a part of a share in Kaspersky Lab

On January 20, 2011, it became known that the American direct investment fund General Atlantic acquired a large stake in Kaspersky Lab. This is the first time in the history of an anti-virus developer that a professional institutional investor has entered the company.

The parties do not disclose either the size of the stake in Kaspersky Lab acquired by the Americans or the amount paid, but they report that upon completion of the transaction, General Atlantic will become the second largest shareholder of the Lab. The largest shareholder of the company will remain Evgeny Kaspersky, who has a controlling stake.

Part of the shares transferred to the General Atlantic fund previously belonged to one of the company's former shareholders, the other part, which Evgeny Buyakin called "symbolic", was issued additionally. According to CNews, Natalya Kasperskaya, co-founder and chairman of the Board of Directors of Laboratoriya, acted as the main seller of the shares. Shares of Eugene Kaspersky did not participate in the deal.

Natalya Kasperskaya told CNews that the share of the new investor in the "Laboratory" will be "less" than 20%. According to her, she retained a substantial part of the company's shares, and she has no plans to leave the chair of the board of directors, "unless the shareholders decide otherwise."

She plans to invest the proceeds in her own projects. This is a developer of solutions for leak protection Infowatch, a company "Nanosemantics", which is engaged in semantic analysis writing, and the Kribrum project, which studies the reputation of companies by analyzing their mentions on the Internet and other media.

The transaction was initiated by General Atlantic: its chief executive John Bernstein says that the fund has long been looking for a manufacturer of protective solutions for investment and "approached Kaspersky Lab about a year ago with a proposal for cooperation."

According to the source of the agency, the motive for the crime of the Savelyevs and their friends was the desire to pay off the ransom received for loans made in one of the banks.

The attackers searched the Internet for a potential victim for ransom. Their choice fell on Ivan Kaspersky after they found his home and work addresses on his Vkontakte page.

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

Interlocutors of LifeNews said that the kidnapping was carried out "unprofessionally". Around 8:15 a.m., Ivan was filmed by surveillance cameras in the Strogino metro station closest to his place of work, and at about 9 a.m., the kidnappers forced him to call his relatives and hand over the terms of a ransom of 3 million euros.

The second evidence of the unprofessionalism of the criminals, the law enforcers called the content of the prisoner in the same house in the garden partnership "Grove" near Sergiev Posad, where they lived themselves.

• On the evening of April 21, 2011, LifeNews reported that a ransom was paid to the kidnappers of Ivan Kaspersky, the amount of which was not disclosed. After the prisoner was released, law enforcement sources said the media had been misinformed to appease the kidnappers.

In an interview with RSN, Natalya Kasperskaya said that her son was not tortured and was kept handcuffed and locked in a bathhouse. The kidnappers constantly changed the phone numbers from which they made ransom calls. Till law enforcement engaged in liberation young man, she and her husband "sat on Petrovka in a separate room and waited for the kidnapper's call." On the last day, the offender did not get in touch, and the parents of I.Kaspersky found out that everything was over, after the information appeared in the media.

“On Sunday, at Easter, we were still waiting for a call, but we already saw that the operatives were increasingly conferring without our participation, they were clearly preparing for something,” says Ashmanov. “This is a very dangerous moment when the vectors diverge: the operas need to grab the kidnappers, and the parents need to return the kidnapped child alive and unharmed.” After lunch, the operatives said that there would be no more calls, the kidnappers were identified and caught, now they are going after Ivan, who is no longer in danger. The operation ended in the evening. Ivan was released. Five participants in the abduction were detained (three are members of the same family), four of them are now under arrest, an investigation is underway. Evgeny and Natalya Kasperskaya with Ashmanov were invited to the office of the head of the department, congratulated and offered to celebrate happy event vodka with coarsely chopped sausage and cheese. Ivan's mother saw Ivan only at 4 o'clock in the morning, before that he was taken testimony.

• According to the official information of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, Ivan Kaspersky was released from the hands of the kidnappers only on Sunday, April 24, 2011. By this time, his location had already been located on a working mobile phone. This information has been made public official representative the capital's police department Viktor Biryukov. According to law enforcement officers, Ivan Kaspersky's condition is "satisfactory."

According to the official information of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, the release was carried out as a result of a military operation by officers of the FSB, the MUR and special forces. The operation in the area of ​​Sergiev Posad "passed without a single shot being fired."

The kidnappers had an appointment to hand over the ransom in Moscow, where the Saveliev family and one of their accomplices went. The cars they were driving were stopped to check their documents, and the perpetrators were detained.

At the same time, another capture group entered the territory of the garden where the prisoner was kept. Ivan Kaspersky was found in the building of the bathhouse, where he was guarded by another accomplice of the Saveliev family.

Ashmanov did not rule out that the ultimate goal of the bandits was not a ransom at all.

“I think they wanted to put pressure on Evgeny Kaspersky or Natalya, the shareholders of Kaspersky Lab,” he argues. “Perhaps we never heard the true demands.”

2012: Purchase of 16% in the German antivirus company G Data

On October 15, 2012 it became known that Natalya Kasperskaya owning InfoWatch holding acquired 16.8% of stocks of the German anti-virus company G Data Software AG.

The shares were bought from several former minority shareholders, in particular from a Berlin-based venture capital investment company. On October 23, at the annual meeting of GData shareholders, Natalia Kasperskaya will be elected to the board of directors of the German company.

The cooperation between Natalia Kaspersky and G Data began in 1996, when the co-founder of the German company Kai Figge offered Natalia a partnership at the CeBIT exhibition in Hannover. Then Natalya headed the anti-virus company Kaspersky Lab, and the two anti-virus manufacturers agreed on technological cooperation.

As Natalya Kasperskaya herself stated, she has been watching G Data for many years and believes that she "deserves more international success." “In a few years, G Data has made a major technological breakthrough. As a member of the board of directors of 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,” said Natalia.

As the press service of InfoWatch commented on Tadviser, the company has long looked aside European companies, and this acquisition fits into the plans for promotion in this market. Moreover, this is not the last acquisition, but the press service refused to give more detailed comments. Further plans to increase the package in G data are also unknown, as well as the cost of the acquisition.

2015: Foundation of the farm

As TAdviser found out, in the fall of 2015 Natalya Kasperskaya established the Green Lamb peasant farm. The farm is located in the suburbs, in the picturesque places of the Serpukhov district, Natalya Kasperskaya confirmed to TAdviser. More details - in a separate.

2017: Head of the Information Security Committee

August 2, 2017 President of the group of companies (GK) InfoWatch Natalia Kaspersky was elected head of the Information Security Committee, created by the Association of Software Developers "Domestic Software". The Committee was formed as part of the implementation of the program "Digital Economy Russian Federation”, which defines the goals, objectives, directions and deadlines for the implementation of the main measures public policy to create the necessary conditions for the development of the digital economy in Russia.

2018: Natalya Kasperskaya became the owner of Neklis-bank

In February 2018, the CEO of the InfoWatch group of companies, Natalya Kasperskaya, spoke about how she was forced to become the owner of Neklis Bank. According to her, the deal was not carried out from a good life: the credit institution is “a big headache". Read more.

Family

Natalya Ivanovna has two children from her first marriage and two from her second. Natalya Kasperskaya has repeatedly stated that four children are not so many. And, if there had been an opportunity earlier, she would have given birth again.

After the publication of a message on the ITpedia website that Natalya Kasperskaya celebrates her birthday on February 5, readers had the idea to give something to the respected master of the Russian IT market. Being limited in funds, they decided to donate a list of names for the fourth child of Natalia. It was not known for certain who Natalya was waiting for - a girl or a boy. Therefore, the list of names spontaneously began to include both female and male. Maybe it's an accident, but the name Maria, which the child eventually received, was on the list of ITpedia readers long before her birthday.

• Trajan- a real imperial Roman name, consonant with the professional interests of Natalia Ivanovna
• Klava- No comments
• Bagomir- Bringing peace to software filled with bugs
• Optimizander- consonant with "optimizer" (occupation of Natalya's husband - Igor Ashmanov)
• Aipion- there is an assumption that the IPO is the desired goal of Natalia
• Aitislav- Glory to information technology
• insiderina- in tune with Natalia's professional interests
• virusilium- a derivative of the name Vasily and the word "virus"
• Yuesbina- from USB - the main tool of insiders with whom Natalya Ivanovna is fighting
• Avira- the name of the antivirus, quite suitable for the name of a person
• Folder- folder - a person with this name is doomed to become a good dad
• Exenia- from the extension of the executable file exe
• Kav- for son - from KAV - Kaspersky Anti-Virus
• Keys- for daughter - from KIS - Kaspersky Internet Security
• Casperite- for son - abbreviated from the surname and IT
• Masha!- just Maria, without reference to IT and profession.
• Runetta Igorevna- loudly
• Verusoid- a derivative of the name Vera and the word "virus"
• Ivanka- a derivative of the Patronymic, Name and Surname of Natalya Ivanovna, very respected by me
• skyper- a derivative of the Skype program, as well as meaning free communication with the whole world without borders
• Bluetooth or Bluetooth- you know what the name comes from
• Connectin- derived from Konstantin and connect
• immunity- strong immune system
• Camputador and Camputador- Spanish computer names echoing Toreador

Hobby

He is fond of playing the guitar, skiing, hiking, reading professional literature, likes to travel in the company of friends and children. Fluent in English and German.

Quotes

• About Evgeny Kaspersky as a manager- Kaspersky is not a manager. He is engaged in other activities that have little to do with the formal position of "CEO". Since Eugene is the main shareholder of the company, he can appoint himself to any desired position.

• About the crisis at Kaspersky Lab- Unfortunately, over the past 4 years, the Lab has focused its portfolio of products (in fact) in the field of protection for Windows quite strongly ... The problem is that modern technologies they are developing quite quickly - new platforms appear, under which there are either no viruses, or they are very rare. They need new types of protection… Another threat to the market is free antiviruses, which, although gradually, are gaining more and more popularity ... The third problem that I would pay attention to is the so-called. targeted attacks. Those. attacks with a specific target. For example, special Trojans written for Alfa-Bank systems. Antiviruses are powerless against such threats. We need new solutions. I do not rule out that they will come not from old market players, but from newcomers ... At one time, I convinced Kaspersky and other shareholders that it was necessary to attract external capital just for the purpose of buying businesses and technologies in new interesting areas. We even managed to attract an investor, but, unfortunately, Kaspersky blocked the idea of ​​development through acquisitions... To be honest, I do not see new growth drivers within the company that would give LK the opportunity to organically grow faster than the market. Consequently, the business growth rate will continue to decline.
• About own employment- Basically, I am engaged in the affairs of the company. Another 2-3 times a week there are questions about the Kribrum project - this is such a project for automatic monitoring social networks, Infowatch has a solid share in it. On the third spot goes Nanosemantics is a company that works in the field artificial intelligence. She is also known for her "mass" project - http://www.iii.ru. Now we are reworking it quite a lot and by the summer we plan to roll out something completely new. And last week, for example, the Cebit exhibition took up all my time ... I have a couple of small projects, but I take much less personal part in them.
• About my teachers- I consider the head of Kami - Alexey Borisovich Remizov - my first business teacher. My second husband, Igor Ashmanov, who has a number of high-tech businesses, had a huge influence on my formation as a businessman (or businesswoman?? :)).
• About the female president of Russia- We have a lot of women in the government. Two ministers and a vice-speaker, that's not counting a bunch of lower-ranking officials. Perhaps the next president will be a woman. Just for this, a worthy candidate should (more precisely, should) appear. So far, there are no such politicians on our horizon.
• On the meeting with Vladimir Putin- Just three weeks ago, several representatives of the IT community of software developers met with the Prime Minister in the Novosibirsk Academgorodok and proposed a number of measures to stimulate domestic software development. The prime minister accepted our proposals, and, as far as I know, relevant instructions have already been given to the ministries. In particular, we proposed introducing mandatory reporting by state departments and state-owned companies on the volume of purchased domestic and imported software. They proposed some measures to support the state patenting abroad, as well as the possibility for enterprises in the high-tech sector to invest in development without the risk of being closed. tax office for losses. The prime minister promised to think about these two points. There were several other proposals - to stimulate the export of high-tech products, to develop self-determining organizations, etc. The prime minister accepted these proposals and gave instructions to the responsible ministers.
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Natalya Ivanovna Kasperskaya(February 5, 1966, Moscow) - CEO of InfoWatch, co-founder of Kaspersky Lab. From October 2006 (and until 2012) she and her ex-husband Eugene Kaspersky owned 60 percent of the company.

Biography

Born in Moscow on February 5, 1966. Graduated from the Moscow Institute of Electronic Engineering with a degree in Applied Mathematics in 1989. Received a bachelor's degree from the Open University in the UK.

In 1994, she came to work at the STC "KAMI" as a seller of software products, after some time she headed the anti-virus project "AVP", with the development of which the history of "Kaspersky Lab" began. AVP's sales volume at the time was $200 a month.

In 1997, she became a co-founder of Kaspersky Lab. Was the head of the company for about 15 years. During this time, Kaspersky Lab has become one of the leaders in the international market for computer security systems with a large cash flow.

In 2004, on the basis of Kaspersky Lab, Natalia founded new company, engaged in the development of means of protecting corporate confidential information from internal threats (DLP-systems). Solutions developed by InfoWatch are distributed both in Russia and abroad.

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

Since 2007, she has been the CEO of InfoWatch.

In April 2008, she was elected a member of the board of the Russian-German Chamber of Commerce.

In 2010, she took 2nd place in the "Information Technology" nomination of the rating of top managers according to the Kommersant newspaper.

In July 2011, she resigned from the board of directors of Kaspersky Lab. In 2013, information appeared in the media that Natalya Kasperskaya became a co-owner of the German anti-virus company G Data and will distribute the products of this vendor in Russia. However, later in an interview with Continent Siberia, she noted that the parties failed to reach a compromise.

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.

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

· 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.

· 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.

Family

In 1998 she divorced, the second husband is businessman Igor Ashmanov. Mother of five children: from the first marriage - Maxim (b. 1989) and Ivan (b. 1991), from the second - Alexandra (b. 2005), Maria (b. 2009) and Varvara (b. 2012).

Natalia Kasperskaya - photo

Perhaps Evgeny Kaspersky would have remained a talented, but little-known programmer, if not for his ex-wife Natalia. 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.
The business woman told why she hid the divorce from the creator of the antivirus, how she copes with four children and what she dreams about. The business woman told why she hid the divorce from the creator of the antivirus, how she copes with four children and what she dreams about.

Divorce is not a hindrance to business

Natalya, 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 himself wrote. 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 point is that if there were no 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 got 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 to Kaspersky and two daughters from your marriage to Igor Ashmanov. How did you decide?
Natalya Kasperskaya with her sons - Maxim and Ivan. Natalya Kasperskaya with her sons - Maxim and Ivan.

I have appeared new family- what about 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 are you 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.

Perhaps 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 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).

Biography

NATALIA KASPERSKY

President of the InfoWatch group of companies, co-founder of Kaspersky Lab

Graduated from the Moscow Institute of Electronic Engineering (MIEM) with a degree in Applied Mathematics.

Co-founder of Kaspersky Lab, led the company for 10 years as a CEO. During this time, Kaspersky Lab has gone from an unknown startup to one of the leaders in the international IT market.

In 2007, Natalia Kasperskaya became the head of InfoWatch, which develops innovative solutions to protect corporations from internal and external threats.

Natalia Kasperskaya is:

• head of the working group in the direction of "Information Security" within the framework of the program "Digital Economy of the Russian Federation",
• Chairman of the Board of the Association of Software Developers (ARPP) "Domestic Soft",
• member of the Expert Council on Russian Software under the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and mass communications RF,
• Member of the Supervisory Board of Otkritie Bank.

Natalya Kasperskaya is the winner of the Women in Technology competition in the Middle East in the category Best Technology Business Entrepreneur and other international competitions.

Biography

RUSTEM KHAIRETDINOV

Vice President of InfoWatch Group

Graduated from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University. Lomonosov and postgraduate studies at the Institute of Mechanics of Multiphase Systems of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

More than 20 years of experience in corporate information technology and information security. Headed commercial blocks in leading IT companies: Steepler, Dell Systems, Gorod-Info, Kaspersky Lab, Netwell.

In 2004, he headed the commercial block of InfoWatch and within a few years brought InfoWatch to the leaders of the Russian market.

In 2010, he defended his dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences, proposing an innovative methodology for optimizing corporate spending. information security. He actively teaches at universities and corporate universities, publishes in specialized and business publications.

Biography

NIKOLAI ZDOBNOV

Executive Director of InfoWatch Group

Nikolay Zdobnov was appointed Executive Director of InfoWatch Group in July 2018.

His area of ​​responsibility is the implementation of the strategic plan of the group of companies, operational management structural divisions and subsidiaries, optimization of business processes and organizational development.

Nikolai started his career at InfoWatch as a sales manager in 2010, later became a deputy sales director, and later a product development director. Completed a number of successful projects to improve and automate work processes throughout the company.

Previously, Nikolai worked at Softline as an information security product manager, and then led the internal startup Softline Linux Solutions. Prior to that, he worked for several years on the customer side, where he was responsible for information Technology and ensuring information security.

Graduated from Nizhny Novgorod State University named after N.I. Lobachevsky, specialty " Computer techologies and information security.

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KONSTANTIN LEVIN

sales vice president

Konstantin is responsible for business development of InfoWatch Group in all regions where the company operates. Joining the InfoWatch team in 2007, he went from account manager to sales director in three years, and has been heading the InfoWatch commercial department for over 10 years.

During this time, the number of InfoWatch clients has grown several times, and Konstantin has more than a dozen on his account biggest deals and well-functioning work of a geographically distributed division of five dozen employees.

Before InfoWatch, Konstantin managed to try his hand at different types activities from accounting and consulting to software testing, marketing and product management. Realizing that he certainly wants to be on cutting edge, engaged in sales of information security solutions.

Levin graduated from the Moscow state institute radio engineering, electronics and automation, specialty "Organization of information security".

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MARGARITA AMALITSKAYA

vice president of marketing

Strategic and operational marketing and product management are Margarita Amalitskaya's areas of responsibility.

Margarita has more than 20 years of experience in business development, product management, as well as technological and strategic marketing in leading IT companies developing software and solutions for the Russian and international markets.

Previously, Margarita worked at ABBYY, Kaspersky Lab, Samsung Electronics and other IT projects, where she successfully completed business tasks in terms of multiple sales growth, increasing market share and entering new market segments.

Margarita graduated Faculty of Physics Moscow State University Lomonosov, has additional education in marketing management.

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ANDREY BIRYUKOV

Technical Director

in position technical director InfoWatch Andrey Biryukov is responsible for maintaining the company's technology leadership, innovation policy and development of new products that form the basis of business growth.

From 2014 to 2018, Andrey led the development from scratch of a key product of Kaspersky Lab for protecting critical information infrastructure. Previously, as a technical leader, he led a number of projects for the development of distributed Enterprise solutions for clients of Quest Software, whose products are used by 130,000 organizations from 100 countries around the world.
In total, he has been developing software for 19 years.

Andrei graduated from the Faculty of Control and Applied Mathematics of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. In 2006, he received a PhD in Physics and Mathematics from the Computing Center Russian Academy Sciences them. A.A. Dorodnitsyn.

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VADIM SARALIDZE

Vice President for Public Relations and Government Relations

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ALEXEY NAGORNY

Vice President for New Projects

Alexey has extensive management experience and successful launch of new products.

Responsible for search at InfoWatch promising directions and development of new market segments.

From 2011 to 2012, Alexey was engaged in the development of solutions in the field of mobile development, during the same period, several services under the osmino brand and the secure smartphone Tigafon were launched on the market.

In 2015, Alexey joined InfoWatch.

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VYACHESLAV POSOKHOV

deputy executive director for operating activities

As Deputy Executive Director for Operations, Vyacheslav is responsible for the formation and implementation of the IT strategy of InfoWatch Group, management of key IT projects, supervising the work of the company's project office.

He joined InfoWatch in 2011 as a corporate trainer and worked his way up to Director of Customer Services. With the participation of Vyacheslav in 2016, InfoWatch was among the finalists international competition the best contact centers technical support clients "Crystal Headset".

In 2008, he started his career at Acronis software development company as a technical support engineer, and then rose to a technical support expert and a customer service quality control analyst.

In 2010, Vyacheslav received a master's degree in Computer Science and Computer Engineering» at the National research university Moscow Institute electronic engineering"(MIET). In 2013, he graduated from the Faculty of Management and Politics of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (U) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia with a degree in State and Municipal Administration.

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ANDREY AREFIEV

product development manager

As head of the product development department, Andrey Arefiev is responsible for the formation and development of the product line, and, thereby, for the creation of a long-term competitive advantage For the company.

Andrey joined InfoWatch in 2014 as a product manager and launched the development of three new product projects. In 2018 he was appointed to a senior position.

From 2002 to 2013, he worked at Quest Software, first as a Program Manager, then headed a department. His main focus was the development of Enterprise solutions for automating Active Directory management processes, these products were used in 95% of Fortune 500 companies and brought the company tens of millions of dollars.

Has 15 years of experience in software development as a full stack developer and project manager. Andrei graduated from the Faculty of Physics of Moscow State University. Lomonosov in 1994, later, as part of an international team, he studied the Earth's ionosphere at the IKI RAS. Head of the department at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.