Natalya Kasperskaya—is a Russian IT entrepreneur, President of the InfoWatch Group of companies and co-founder and former CEO of antivirus security software company Kaspersky Lab. In addition, she is one of the wealthiest women in Russia[ and one of the most influential figures in the Russian IT industry. Natalya Kasperskaya was born in Moscow into a family of engineers and Soviet defense research institute employees. Alongside her main education, Natalya also played basketball. In the eighth year of her education, Natalya moved from an ordinary secondary school to a physics-mathematical school run by the Moscow Aviation Institute. After finishing this school, Natalya took the entrance y into the Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics. From 1984 until 1989, Natalya studied applied mathematics in the Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics, where the topic of her diploma was a mathematical model of a nuclear reactor cooling system. Later, she earned a bachelor's degree from the Open University in the UK. After graduating from the institute, Natalya was assigned to the Central Scientific and Construction Bureau in Moscow ,where she worked for half a year as a research scientist. Natalya 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. The job was based in a newly opened store in the KAMI Information Technologies Center. In September 1994, Natalya became head of a distribution department, which Over two or three years, Natalya successfully built distribution channels and a technical support network and entered international markets, with sales growing rapidly. Revenue was divided between the team and the mother company until 1997, when the future founders of 'Kaspersky Lab' decided to start their own business. Natalya launched the Kaspersky Lab foundation in June 1997, was key to the naming of the new company, and worked as CEO for more than 10 years. In 1997, Kaspersky Lab sales started to double yearly, with turnover reaching around $7 million in 2001 and exceeding $67 million in 2006. Eventually, Natalya agreed to stay on as Chairperson of the newly established board of 'Kaspersky Lab', before finally breaking all ties with the previously family driven business in 2011, with Kaspersky Lab buying out Natalya's stake in the company in 2007 and 2011.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, and yearly revenue of $700 million by 2011, when Natalya sold her remaining stake and departed. After the change in management, the company's rate of growth dropped visibly, with global revenue growing. After 'Kaspersky Lab' had bought the antispam technology developed, an idea to use the antispam engine backwards for protection against data leaks. In December 2013, a subsidiary called 'InfoWatch' was established to develop and distribute new software. Natalya has been CEO and majority owner of 'InfoWatch' since October 2007, with her stake in the company being linked to the business separation . Natalya made her main investments in 'InfoWatch” co-owned by her and 'G Data Software' AG, a German antivirus company. 'InfoWatch' software had only vague prospects at the time of the spin-off and was an albatross around 'Kaspersky Lab's neck .Unlike 'Kaspersky Lab', the technological solutions and product line of the new company were initially targeted at large and medium enterprises, starting from 300 workstations, This required a fundamentally different skill set and approach, with Natalya's previous experience in management turning out not to be particularly relevant. Nevertheless, in 2012 InfoWatch, which went on growing at an annual rate. According to 'Forbes', InfoWatch annual revenue reached around $12 million in 2015.Today, InfoWatch is a group of companies working in two main business areas — corporate protection against internal threats and external targeted attacks. In addition, InfoWatch is actively developing the German, Middle East, and South-East Asian markets. Current InfoWatch shareholders are Natalya Kasperskaya and the company's Deputy CEO Rustem Khairetdinov.

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