Natalya Kasperskaya is a mother of five children. She speaks two foreign languages - English and German, knows how to play the guitar well. A woman running her own business has achieved a lot in life thanks to her dedication.
Natalya Ivanovna Kaspersky was born on February 5, 1966 in Moscow. Her maiden name is Stutzer. The great-great-grandfather of Kaspersky Natalia Ivan Ivanovich Shtutser was the author of a textbook on geography. The intelligent family in which Natalya was born raised the only late child. The girl's parents were engineers at the institute, but this did not prevent her from leading an active lifestyle.
Early life and marriage with Kaspersky
Natalia was interested in social and creative activities, trips around the country, sports activities. She took an active part in amateur performances. As a child, she was in a pioneer organization, was fond of writing poetry. Choosing a future field of activity, Natalya Shtutser decided to follow in the footsteps of her parents and forget her youthful dreams.
In 1987, on vacation in a sanatorium at the age of 21, the girl met her future husband. Evgeny Kaspersky made an offer to Natalya Shtutser after a whirlwind romance, when they went hiking together, went in for sports. A sad event in the life of lovers was the distribution of Evgeny to Chita after he received a technical education at the Higher School of the KGB. The young programmer was then married to Natalia, so his mother helped him avoid unwanted departure. His successful career began with the Department of Defense, where he worked as a computer virus specialist.
In 1989, Natalya Kasperskaya defended her diploma at the Moscow Institute of Electronic Engineering. After the birth of her first child, Natalya Kasperskaya thought about looking for work, feeling a desire to help her husband in business. Having become a salesman of computer accessories, Natalya started entrepreneurial activity at the age of 28. Since 1994, she has been selling antivirus software. Having persuaded her husband to become the founder of her own company called Kaspersky Lab in 1997, she took the position of AVP administrator at the KAMI Science and Technology Center.
The joint venture became a second business, since the first firm, Data Rescue Center, was unprofitable. Having visited an exhibition in Hanover, Kaspersky headed his own company, since he could not have become a leader in a position in a British firm.
Successful business of Kaspersky
Gradually, the business of Kaspersky acquired global importance. At the very beginning of her career, Natalya was poorly versed in computers and did not have the skill of managing an organization. It was difficult for her to avoid mistakes in business, since personal sales did not bring income for a long time.
The Kaspersky Lab team consisted of programmers who did not care about management. Natalya took over the administrative work, since her husband was the owner of the enterprise. Family ties helped her in her career. Kaspersky began to do well in business and the rate of increase in sales was 300%.
The number of Kaspersky Lab employees increased from 6 to 600 people. The company gained recognition in the world market thanks to the conclusion of international contracts. According to management, the main reasons for the company's success were:
- a new market segment that has not been well researched;
- high level of demand for software;
- weakness of competitors in the computer market;
- lack of business methods.
Management in the context of rapid business development required a woman to improve her knowledge. Natalya Kasperskaya decided to get a second education abroad. She entered the British Open University.
In 1998, Natalya Kasperskaya no longer maintained a relationship with her husband due to a divorce. By this time, the spouses had two children, so they tried to hide the discord in the family from others. The division of the business took place between Natalya and Eugene, so the co-owner of the Laboratory decided to invest her share in the new InfoWatch company.
Achievements of Natalia Kasperskaya
Kaspersky Lab has advanced in the international market thanks to Natalia's active efforts. Kaspersky worked not only with Russian companies "1C" and "Polik Pro". Natalia has signed contracts with the following foreign companies:
- F-Secure - Finland;
- Vintage Solutions - Japan;
- G-Data - Germany.
In 1999, a representative office of Kaspersky Labs UK was opened in Cambridge in 1999. In 2003, the "Laboratory" worked together with Japanese and Chinese representations. The Russian antivirus software market is 45% or more owned by the laboratory.
Since 2007, Kaspersky has been the CEO of InfoWatch, a developer of systems for protecting confidential data from internal threats. In 2009, the magazine "Finance", which conducted research in the field of income of successful women engaged in entrepreneurship, published a rating that included 50 persons. In it, Natalya Kasperskaya was listed on the 2nd position.
Kaspersky has become a leader in the IT technology market thanks to the management talent of the business owner. According to a market research presented by Forbes, in 2015, 12 years after opening, InfoWatch was able to achieve a turnover of more than 1 billion rubles.
