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

Biography

In 1997, together with ex-husband Evgeniy Kaspersky Natalya Kasperskaya founded the Kaspersky Lab company and became its CEO. Over the course of 10 years, under the leadership of Natalya Kasperskaya, Kaspersky Lab has made its way from an unknown startup to one of the leaders in the international IT market with half a billion (in dollar equivalent) turnover.

In 2003, Kaspersky Lab created a subsidiary company, InfoWatch, which began developing 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, on Natalya’s initiative, the InfoWatch company begins active expansion, first into the European, and then into the Middle Eastern 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, on Natalya’s initiative, the InfoWatch company, together with the Ashmanov and Partners company, created a subsidiary, Kribrum, developing 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, Natalya transformed the InfoWatch company into a holding of the same name.

At the beginning of 2012, Natalya 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 backdoors.

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

In 2013, Natalya Kasperskaya invested in the Russian startup Taiga, which became part of the InfoWatch Group of Companies. Taiga develops innovative security system mobile devices from tracking and information theft.

Under the leadership of Natalia Kasperskaya, InfoWatch has become a recognized leader in the DLP market in Russia and the CIS countries.

Family

Natalya is married for the second time. Husband - businessman Igor Ashmanov, specialist in the field 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 the winner of numerous prestigious international awards in the field of information technology:

Winner of the prestigious international award “Russian Business Leader of the Year” for services to 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 category " Best Entrepreneur in the field of information technology."

Nominated by the British publication 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.

Winner of the Bank Information Security Award 2015.

Natalya Kasperskaya actively invests in the development of high-tech companies and is a member of the following advisory boards:

- "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 Product Developers (ARPP) "Domestic Software".

Member:

Expert Council on Russian Software under the Ministry of Communications and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation,

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 Mechanical Engineers of Russia,

Information Protection Association (IDPA),

Association of Information Security Experts BISA,

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

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

After listening to her parents, Kasperskaya entered the “Applied Mathematics” specialty at the Moscow Institute of Electronic Engineering. In 1989 she received her diploma. She subsequently obtained a bachelor's degree from the UK Open University, majoring in Business.

Before moving into sales and management, Natalya worked for several years at the Central Research and Design Bureau of Moscow as an ordinary researcher. While still a student, she met the talented programmer Evgeniy Kaspersky, and when in 1994 the opportunity arose to go to work at the Kami Scientific and Technical Center - the one where Evgeniy began his career - Kasperskaya took 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 question of separating and creating her own company. At first Evgeny Kaspersky grumbled and did not want any changes - they say it would only interfere with work on the project. But Natalya 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 onto Kaspersky and returned to software development. At first, Natalya Kasperskaya had a hard time. But she did it. And in 1998, the hired technical, commercial and financial directors came to her aid.

In 1998, the family of Natalia and Evgeniy fell apart under the pressure of everyday squabbles. This did not appear to have affected the company. Until 2007, leadership and responsibility for Kaspersky Lab's market activity lay primarily on the shoulders of CEO Natalia Kasperskaya. In 2007, as a major shareholder, she was elected to the post of head of the board of directors, while Evgeniy took the place of general director.

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

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

In business, Natalia values ​​teamwork. As a leader, she knows how to listen to the opinions of experts before committing rash acts. At the same time, she does not accept all sorts of team building and other “nonsense” inspired from abroad. Working with Russian programmers requires a completely different approach, and Kasperskaya is aware of this. At the Laboratory, developers were never reprimanded for being late, but they had to complete their part of the job on time.

In her marriage to Evgeniy 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 was born, Masha, in March 2009. A month earlier, fans of Kaspersky Anti-Virus presented Natalya with a humorous list of possible names for a child, each of which was somehow related to the anti-virus field.

Natalya Kasperskaya knows two well foreign languages- German and English. He often goes on vacation to ski resorts, enjoys tourism and travel. Natalya plays the guitar well.

Today is the Day of Family, Love and Fidelity - our Russian answer Western Day Saint Valentine's. 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, marriage 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 famous large families.

The Raskovalov family, four children

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

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

Now the couple has four children - three daughters and one son. Yana recently gave birth to her fourth child, and has been in excellent shape since the first days after giving birth. Even on recent months pregnancy, the jeweler and designer showed off her body without embarrassment in fashion shoots - and it’s not surprising, because even in interesting position The blonde looked great.

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, she and Igor began dating three or four years after her divorce from her husband, and in 2001 they legalized their union.

Igor Ashmanov is a managing partner, general director of the Ashmanov and Partners company, one of the founders and most famous top managers of the Russian IT industry.

Since October 2007, Natalya Kasperskaya has been the CEO and owner of a controlling stake in InfoWatch. This company was part of her share in the division of business with her former husband.

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

In interviews, Natalya 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 the understanding that someone needs him, that there is someone to work for. And Natalya calls children her true value.

The Vodianov-Arnault family

Antoine first saw Natalia in 2008 - at that time she was married to British lord Justin Portman. Arnault then headed the communications department of the Louis Vuitton fashion house, and Vodianova starred in an advertising campaign for 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 had divorced.

Thanks to Natalya, Arno truly discovered Russia and began to better understand his beloved.

Natalya 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 and 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.

Thompson family, six children

Olga came to America at the age of 14. She studied ballet at a school in California, then at the art history department of Stanford University, and 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. Olga’s passion for Tolstoy’s work apparently played a big role in choosing the venue for the celebration.

The family loves to travel around Russia - they have been to the Tver region, Vladimir, Suzdal, and 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 Russian perfectly.

Charles is still a professional photographer. Olga is a co-owner of the company producing designer fabrics Tissus Tartares.

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

The Thompsons often attend social events. For example, last year the entire family was spotted 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 part of the shares of the Simachev brand; Stella’s own business is also developing and generating good income. Stella is an example modern woman, who successfully combines raising children and business - she is the owner of the Five Kids boutique.

Photographer: Lena Sarapultseva

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

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

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

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

The material was prepared by Polina Rtishcheva and Ilnara Sagandykova

Beautiful and with many children - on the Day of Love, Family and Fidelity was last modified: August 9th, 2017 by Polina Rtishcheva

Biography

NATALIA KASPERSKAYA

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

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

In 2007, Natalya Kasperskaya headed the InfoWatch company, which develops innovative solutions in the field of protecting corporations from internal and external threats.

Natalia Kasperskaya is:

• Head of the working group in the area of ​​"Information Security" within the framework of the "Digital Economy" program Russian Federation»,
• Chairman of the Board of the Association of Software Product Developers (ARPP) “Domestic Software”,
• Member of the Expert Council on Russian Software under the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation,
• member of the supervisory board of Otkritie Bank.

Natalia Kasperskaya is a laureate of the Women in Technology competition in the Middle East in the Best Technology Business Entrepreneur category and other international competitions.

Biography

RUSTEM KHAIRETDINOV

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.

He has been working in the field of corporate information technology and information security for more than 20 years. Headed commercial units in leading IT companies: Steepler, Dell Systems, Gorod-Info, Kaspersky Lab, Netwell.

In 2004, he headed the commercial block of the InfoWatch company and within several years made InfoWatch a leader in the Russian market.

In 2010, he defended his dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences, proposing an innovative method for optimizing costs for corporate information security. Leads an active teaching activities in universities and corporate universities, published in specialized and business publications.

Biography

NIKOLAY ZDOBNOV

Nikolay Zdobnov was appointed executive director of InfoWatch Group in July 2018.

His area of ​​responsibility is execution strategic plan group of companies, operational management structural divisions And subsidiaries, business process optimization and organizational development.

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

Previously, Nikolay worked at Softline as an information security product manager, and then headed the internal startup Softline Linux Solutions. Before 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 with a degree in Computer Technologies and Information Security.

Biography

KONSTANTIN LEVIN

Konstantin is responsible for business development of InfoWatch Group in all regions of the company's presence. Having joined the InfoWatch team in 2007, in three years he worked his way up from account manager to sales director, and has now been heading the commercial department of InfoWatch for more than 10 years.

During this time, the number of InfoWatch clients has grown several times, and Konstantin has more than a dozen on his account largest transactions and well-functioning work of a geographically distributed unit 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 definitely wants to be on cutting edge, started selling information security solutions.

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

Biography

MARGARITA AMALITSKAYA

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

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 accomplished business tasks in terms of multiple sales growth, increasing market share and entering new market segments.

Margarita graduated from the Faculty of Physics of Moscow State University. Lomonosov, has additional education in Marketing Management.

Biography

ANDREY BIRYUKOV

In the position of Technical Director of InfoWatch, Andrey Biryukov is responsible for maintaining the company's technological leadership, innovation policy and development of new products that form the basis for business growth.

From 2014 to 2018, Andrey led the development from scratch of Kaspersky Lab’s key product for protecting critical information infrastructure. Previously, as a technical leader, he led a number of projects to develop 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.

Andrey graduated from the Faculty of Management and Applied Mathematics of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. In 2006 he received a Candidate of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics from the Computing Center Russian Academy Sciences named after A.A. Dorodnitsyna.

Biography

VADIM SARALIDZE

Biography

ALEXEY NAGORNY

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

At InfoWatch, he is responsible for searching for promising areas and developing new market segments.

From 2011 to 2012, Alexey was involved 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 “Taigafon” were introduced to the market.

In 2015, Alexey joined the InfoWatch company.

Biography

VYACHESLAV POSOXOV

In the position of 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, and supervision of 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 the customer services department. With the participation of Vyacheslav, in 2016 InfoWatch was among the finalists of the international competition for the best contact centers technical support"Crystal Headset" clients.

In 2008, he began his career at the software developer Acronis as a technical support engineer, and then grew to become an expert technical support engineer and analyst for quality control of customer services.

In 2010, Vyacheslav received a master’s degree in “Informatics and Computer Science” at the National research university"Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology" (MIET). In 2013, he graduated from the Faculty of Management and Politics at MGIMO University (University) of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs with a degree in State and Municipal Administration.

Biography

ANDREY AREFIEV

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

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

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

Has 15 years of experience in software development as a full stack developer and project manager. Andrey graduated from the Faculty of Physics of Moscow State University. Lomonosov in 1994, subsequently, 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.

Kasperskaya (Shtutser) Natalya Ivanovna- General Director of InfoWatch, a developer of systems for protecting confidential information from internal threats. She was the head of Kaspersky Lab for more than 10 years.

Biography

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

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

In one of her interviews, 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 began to have completely insurmountable problems with chemistry. And since my parents are “techies,” there wasn’t much of an alternative. Naturally, I was advised to enter a technical university.”

Last two school year 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: Meeting Evgeniy 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 found his own company and make his family name a brand. The founding father was engaged technical part. Natalya Kasperskaya became the general director of Kaspersky Lab and was responsible for sales, personnel and access to international markets.

Kaspersky Lab initially employed six people, but gradually it grew to international group companies with head office 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. Natalya was responsible for her life dozens of times. The company found itself at the right time in the right place, very fortunately - there was just a growth in the market, that is, the market was still new, this is the first thing. Secondly, in Russia it was completely new, that is, Kaspersky, in fact, were pioneers in this sense in the field of software. The third thing is that the competitors also did not know where to go, that is, everyone wandered blindly and made just as many mistakes. Everyone was on equal terms.

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

2011: Sale of part of the stake in Kaspersky Lab

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

The parties do not disclose the size of the stake acquired by the Americans in Kaspersky Lab, nor the amount paid, but report that upon completion of the transaction, General Atlantic will become the second largest shareholder of the Laboratory. Evgeny Kaspersky, who has a controlling stake, will remain the company's largest shareholder.

Some 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, the main seller of the shares was the co-founder and chairman of the board of directors of the Laboratory, Natalya Kasperskaya. Evgeniy Kaspersky's shares were not involved in the transaction.

Natalya Kasperskaya told CNews that the new investor’s share in the Laboratory will be “less” than 20%. According to her, she retained a significant 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 the developer of leak protection solutions Infowatch, the Nanosemantics company, 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 initiator of the deal was General Atlantic: its executive director John Bernstein says that the fund has long been looking for a manufacturer of security solutions for investment and “about a year ago approached Kaspersky Lab with a proposal for cooperation.”

According to the agency's source, 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 for a potential victim on the Internet to receive a ransom. Their choice fell on Ivan Kaspersky after they discovered 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 to commit a crime.

Interlocutors of LifeNews said that the kidnapping was carried out “unprofessionally.” At around 8:15 am, Ivan was filmed by surveillance cameras in the Strogino metro station closest to his place of work, and at around 9 am, the kidnappers forced him to call his family and convey the terms of a ransom of 3 million euros.

The second evidence of the unprofessionalism of the criminals, law enforcement officers called the detention of the prisoner in the same house in the garden community "Roshcha" near Sergiev Posad, where they themselves lived.

• 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 captive's release, law enforcement sources said the media were 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. While law enforcement agencies were engaged in the release young man, she and her husband “sat on Petrovka in a separate room and waited for the kidnapper to call.” On the last day, the criminal did not get in touch, and I. Kaspersky’s parents found out that everything was over only after the information appeared in the media.

“On Sunday, Easter, we were still waiting for the 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 police need to catch the kidnappers, and the parents need to have the kidnapped child returned safe and sound.” After lunch, the operatives announced that there would be no more calls, the kidnappers had been identified and caught, and now they were going after Ivan, who was no longer in danger. The operation ended late in the evening. Ivan was released. Five participants in the kidnapping were detained (three are members of the same family), four of them are now under arrest, and an investigation is underway. Evgeniy and Natalya Kasperskaya and Ashmanov were invited to the office of the head of the department, congratulated and offered to celebrate the happy event with vodka with coarsely chopped sausage and cheese. Ivan’s mother saw her only at 4 o’clock in the morning; before that, his testimony was taken.

• According to official information from 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 identified by a working mobile phone. Information about this was made public official representative capital city police department Viktor Biryukov. According to law enforcement officials, Ivan Kaspersky’s condition is “satisfactory.”

According to official information from the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, the release was carried out as a result of a force operation by employees of the FSB, MUR and special forces. The operation in the area of ​​Sergiev Posad “took place without a single shot.”

The kidnappers were given a meeting to hand over the ransom in Moscow, where the entire Savelyev family and one of their accomplices went. The cars in which they were traveling were stopped to check documents, and the attackers were detained.

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

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

“I think they wanted to put pressure on Evgeniy Kaspersky or Natalya, the shareholders of Kaspersky Lab,” he says. “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, who owns the InfoWatch holding, acquired a 16.8% stake in the German antivirus company G Data Software AG.

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

The collaboration between Natalya Kasperskaya 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. At that time, Natalya headed the antivirus company Kaspersky Lab, and the two antivirus manufacturers agreed on technological cooperation.

As Natalya Kasperskaya herself stated, she has been watching G Data for many years and believes that it “deserves more international success.” “Over the course of several years, G Data has made a serious technological breakthrough. As a member of the board of directors of G Data, I will be focused on strengthening the company’s highest reputation in the international market, and I also want to bring my knowledge and experience in the antivirus industry to the company,” noted Natalya.

As the press service of InfoWatch commented to Tadviser, the company has long been looking towards European companies, and this acquisition fits into plans for promotion in this market. Moreover, this is not the last acquisition, but the press service declined to comment in more detail. Further plans to increase the stake in G data are also unknown, as is 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 Moscow region, in picturesque places in the Serpukhov region, Natalya Kasperskaya confirmed to TAdviser. More details in a separate section.

2017: Head of the Information Security Committee

On August 2, 2017, the president of the InfoWatch group of companies (GC) Natalya Kasperskaya was elected head of the Information Security Committee created in the Association of Software Developers "Domestic Software". The committee was formed as part of the implementation of the “Digital Economy of the Russian Federation” program, which determines the goals, objectives, directions and timing of the implementation of key 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, Natalya Kasperskaya, CEO of the InfoWatch group of companies, spoke about how she was forced to become the owner of Neklis Bank. According to her, the deal was not carried out out of 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 is not so many. And, if there had been an opportunity earlier, she would have given birth again.

After publishing a message on the ITpedia website that Natalya Kasperskaya was celebrating 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 Natalia's fourth child. It was not known for certain who Natalya was expecting - a girl or a boy. Therefore, the list of names spontaneously began to include both female and male names. It may be 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, in tune with the professional interests of Natalya Ivanovna
• Klava- no comments
• Bagomir- bringing peace to software filled with bugs
• Optimizander- consonant with “optimizer” (the occupation of Natalya’s husband, Igor Ashmanov)
• IPiona- there is an assumption that an IPO is Natalia’s desired goal
• Aitislav- Glory to information technology
• Insider- in tune with Natalia’s professional interests
• Virusiliy- a derivative of the name Vasily and the word “virus”
• Yuesbina- from USB - the main weapon of the 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 my son - from KAV - Kaspersky AntiVirus
• Keys- for my daughter - from KIS - Kaspersky Internet Security
• Kasperit- for son - shortened from surname and IT
• Masha!- just Maria, without reference to IT or profession.
• Runetta Igorevna- sonorous
• Verusoid- a derivative of the name Vera and the word “virus”
• IvanNKa- derived from the Patronymic, First and Last Name of Natalya Ivanovna, whom I respect very much
• Skyper- a derivative of the Skype program, and also means free communication with the whole world without borders
• Bluetooth or Bluetooth- you yourself understand where the name comes from
• Connectin- derived from Konstantin and connect
• Immunity- with strong immunity
• Camputador and Camputadora- Spanish computer names that echo Toreador

Hobby

He enjoys playing the guitar, skiing, hiking, reading professional literature, and loves traveling with friends and children. Fluent in English and German.

Quotes

• About Evgeniy Kaspersky as a manager- Kaspersky is not a manager. He is engaged in other activities that have little to do with the formal title of “CEO.” Since Evgeniy 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 Laboratory has rather strongly focused its product portfolio (in fact) in the field of protection for Windows... The problem is that modern technologies are developing quite quickly - new platforms are appearing, for which there are either no viruses, or they are very rare . They require 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 draw attention to is the so-called. targeted attacks. Those. attacks pursuing a specific goal. For example, special Trojans written for Alfa Bank systems. Antiviruses are powerless against such threats. New solutions are needed. 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 precisely for the purpose of purchasing 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 don’t see drivers of new growth within the company that would give LC the opportunity to organically grow faster than the market. Consequently, the rate of business growth will continue to decline.
• About your own employment- Mainly, I deal with company affairs. Another 2-3 times a week questions arise about the Kribrum project - this is an automatic monitoring project social networks, Infowatch has a significant share in it. In third place is Nanosemantics, a company that works in the field of 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. A last week, for example, the Cebit exhibition took up all my time... I have a couple more small projects, but I take significantly less personal participation in them.
• About your teachers- I consider Kami’s manager, Alexey Borisovich Remizov, to be my first business teacher. My second husband, Igor Ashmanov, who has a number of businesses in the field of high technology, had a huge influence on my formation as a businessman (or businesswoman??):).
• About the female president of Russia- We have so many women in government. Two ministers and a deputy speaker, not counting a bunch of officials of lower rank. Perhaps the next president will be a woman. It’s just that for this purpose a worthy candidate must (more precisely, must) appear. So far, such politicians are not visible on our horizon.
• About 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 Akademgorodok 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 government departments and state-owned companies on the volume of purchased domestic and imported software. They proposed some measures to support government patenting abroad, as well as the opportunity for enterprises in the high-tech sector to invest money 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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