19 Facts About Natalya Kaspersky

Natalya Kaspersky was elected as a member of her school pioneer council, and later as a member of the district pioneer headquarters, and was a Komsomol member and organizer.

Alongside her main education, Natalya Kaspersky played basketball in the Children's and Youth Sports School and seriously intended to become a veterinarian until giving up on the dream because of difficulties with studying chemistry.

Natalya Kaspersky started her career in IT at the age of 28, when she took on a job, in January 1994, as a salesperson for a computer accessories and software firm with a 50-dollar monthly salary.

Natalya Kaspersky believes that all personal data, such as search history, geolocation, contacts, correspondence, photo and video materials, should belong to the State.

In September 1994, Natalya became head of a distribution department of AntiViral Toolkit Pro, which had been under development by Eugene Kaspersky's team since 1991.

Revenue was divided between the team and the mother company until 1997, when the future founders of 'Natalya Kaspersky Lab' decided to start their own business.

Under Natalya's supervision, Kaspersky Lab turned into a leading antivirus corporation with a network of regional offices worldwide.

At the moment of the power change in 2007, annual sales revenue had reached $126 million, while the company had an estimated capitalization of over $1.3 billion and yearly revenue of $700 million by 2011, when Natalya Kaspersky sold her remaining stake and departed.

Natalya Kaspersky Kasperskaya has been CEO and majority owner of 'InfoWatch' since October 2007, with her stake in the company being linked to the business separation deal with her ex-husband.

Natalya Kaspersky Kasperskaya is a member of the board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs and the Association of Software Developers 'Domestic Software'.

Natalya Kaspersky is a member of the Expert Russian Software Council affiliated to the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of Russia, the Grant Committee of Skolkovo Foundation, and the supervisory board of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology.

Furthermore, Natalya Kaspersky Kasperskaya is a member of the Russian Mechanical Engineering Union.

From April 2008 until March 2012, Natalya Kaspersky was a member of the board of the Russian-German chamber of commerce.

Natalya Kaspersky Kasperskaya has enjoyed participating in social activities ever since being at school, where she remembers singing in a children's choir, taking part in school performances and concerts, and even leading a pioneer's team of agitators.

Natalya Kaspersky perceives gadgets and social networks somewhat negatively as she understands that they provide capabilities for increased surveillance.

In 1989, in her fifth year at the institute, Natalya Kaspersky gave birth to her first son Maxim, with a second son, Ivan, following in 1991.

Natalya Kaspersky met her second husband, Igor Ashmanov, in 1996 at the CeBIT computer expo in Hannover, where they were working at neighboring stands.

Natalya Kaspersky Kasperskaya remembers that they started dating two or three years later, after the divorce with Eugene, with the couple deciding to marry in 2001.

In 2005, Igor and Natalya Kaspersky had a daughter, Alexandra, who was followed by a second daughter, Maria, in 2009 and a third daughter, Varvara, in 2012.