Natalya Kasperskaya is the wife of the creator of the world famous antivirus Eugene Kaspersky. Together they stood at the origins of Kaspersky Lab, and later Natalya joined the board of directors, becoming a major IT entrepreneur and one of the richest women in the country.
Biography
Natalia Kasperskaya was born in 1966 in Moscow. Her parents were scientists and worked in secret Soviet enterprises. From the very childhood Natalia was very active and in every business she strove to be the best. She successfully studied, performed Komsomol work, went in for sports. Her extraordinary intellectual abilities allowed Kaspersky to enter the Moscow Institute of Electronic Engineering.
After receiving her diploma, Natalya got a job as a research assistant at the Moscow Scientific and Design Bureau. By this time, she was already married to Evgeny Kaspersky and soon went on maternity leave. By the onset of 1994, the sphere of computer technology began to actively develop in the country, which aroused great interest in Natalia. She got a job as a seller in a store selling computer hardware and software products, while Eugene was already working hard with the development team on the AntiViral Toolkit Pro (AVP) antivirus.
Soon the program was over, and Natalya decided to start distributing it, helping her husband. The product turned out to be truly effective and unique. By 1997, the antivirus had reached $ 1 million in annual revenue. After that, Eugene and his wife founded the Kaspersky Lab company. It was Natalya Kasperskaya who became its CEO. By 2006, the annual turnover reached $ 67 million. And a year later, relations in the family went wrong, and the case ended in divorce. Natalia was removed from office, and by 2011 her shareholding was completely bought out by her ex-husband and other co-founders.
Further activities of the famous woman entrepreneur again turned out to be associated with information technology. She founded and headed InfoWatch, which quickly grew from a simple anti-spam system developer to a partner for state corporations to defend against internal and external cyber threats. Natalia also owns the Russian Neklis-Bank, acting through the Cypriot offshores.
Personal life
Natalya met her first husband, Eugene Kaspersky, in 1987 while still a student. The couple played a wedding, and in 1989 the first-born Maxim was born, and two years later - the second son Ivan. In 1997, the family broke up, and the couple soon divorced. The reasons for this decision are still unclear.
According to rumors, Natalia's acquaintance with businessman Igor Ashmanov, held in 1996 in Hannover, played a role in the divorce proceedings. The couple began dating almost immediately after Kaspersky's divorce, and in 2001 they entered into an official marriage. The family had daughters Alexandra, Maria and Varvara. To date, Natalia's sons from their first marriage have already graduated from Moscow State University. Lomonosov, choosing, like parents, the information and mathematical direction.
