Melih Abdulhayoğlu

Melih Abdulhayoğlu (born 10 March 1968) is the CEO of MAVeCap, an incubator Venture Capital firm funded by his family office.[2] MAVeCap focusses on building tomorrow's technology platform companies. His first company was Comodo. The firm is now branded as Sectigo.[3]

Melih Abdulhayoglu
Born (1968-03-10) 10 March 1968
Hatay, Turkey[1]
NationalityAmerican, Turkish
Alma materUniversity of Bradford (UK)
BS Electronic Engineering, 1991
Occupation(s)Technologist, Entrepreneur
Known forFounder & Chairman of Comodo
Websitemelih.com

Early life

Melih Abdulhayoglu was born in Turkey, where he studied at Hatay high-school. At the age of 18, he moved to the United Kingdom, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Electronic Engineering from the University of Bradford in 1991.[4]

Career

Abdulhayoglu is the founder of Comodo, an internet security company,[5] and established the industry standards organization CA/Browser Forum in 2005, initially to promote new standards that resulted in the creation of Extended Validation SSL Certificates.[6][7][8]

In 2009, Abdulhayoglu organized the Common Computing Security Standards Forum, initially to deal with the problem of faux antivirus software being used by cyber-criminals.[9][10][11][12]

Abdulhayoglu features in Forbes Turkey's 12th "100 Richest Turks" list, announced in March, 2017.[5][13] Forbes announced that he is estimated net worth of US$1.6 billion as of April 2018.[14]

References
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  2. Hendric, William. "About Private Equity Group MAVeCap". melih.com. Retrieved July 4, 2021.
  3. Murphy, Ian (November 2, 2018). "Comodo CA becomes Sectigo and expands to cover IoT -".
  4. "Melih Abdulhayoglu". Forbes. Retrieved 2021-01-04.
  5. "Melih Abdulhayoglu in Forbes Turkey's 12th "100 Richest Turks" List". Forbes.com. Retrieved 2017-03-02.
  6. "Do You Need EV-SSL? [VIDEO]". www.esecurityplanet.com. 9 May 2014.
  7. Larry Seltzer (2008-05-09). "Melih was the original force behind the CA/Browser Forum and EV-SSL". Eweek.com. Retrieved 2013-06-11.
  8. "Melih Abdulhayoglu co-founded the CAB Forum". Scribd.com. 2012-09-14. Retrieved 2013-06-11.
  9. Dunn, John (July 16, 2009). "AV vendors fight 'scareware' with new whitelist". TechWorld. Archived from the original on July 1, 2013. Retrieved June 6, 2013.
  10. "AV vendors fight 'scareware' with new whitelist - Techworld.com". News.techworld.com. Retrieved 2013-06-11.
  11. "Melih Abdulhayoğlu - CNN TÜRK Video". Video.cnnturk.com. 2012-10-16. Archived from the original on 2013-06-14. Retrieved 2013-06-11.
  12. "Melih Abdulhayoğlu - CNN TÜRK Video". Archived from the original on 2013-12-19. Retrieved 2013-12-19.
  13. "Forbes Turkey's 12th 100 Richest Turks". sabah.com. Retrieved 2017-03-02.
  14. "Forbes announcement about Melih". Forbes.com. Retrieved 2018-04-04.
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