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Melih Abdulhayoğlu

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Melih Abdulhayoglu
Born (1968-03-10) 10 March 1968 (age 56)
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

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]

Early life

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Melih Abdulhayoglu was born in Turkey, where he studied at Hatay high-school.[citation needed] 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

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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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  1. ^ TurkofAmerica Magazine, turkofamerica.com (December 5, 2010). "The Security of the Internet Is in the Hands of A Turk". Retrieved October 9, 2011.
  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. ^ a b "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 2013-01-19. 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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