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 | |
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| Born | 10 March 1968 |
| Nationality | American, Turkish |
| Alma mater | University of Bradford (UK) BS Electronic Engineering, 1991 |
| Occupation(s) | Technologist, Entrepreneur |
| Known for | Founder & Chairman of Comodo |
| Website | melih |
Early life
editMelih 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
editAbdulhayoglu 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
edit- ^ TurkofAmerica Magazine, turkofamerica.com (December 5, 2010). "The Security of the Internet Is in the Hands of A Turk". Retrieved October 9, 2011.
- ^ Hendric, William. "About Private Equity Group MAVeCap". melih.com. Retrieved July 4, 2021.
- ^ Murphy, Ian (November 2, 2018). "Comodo CA becomes Sectigo and expands to cover IoT -".
- ^ "Melih Abdulhayoglu". Forbes. Retrieved 2021-01-04.
- ^ a b "Melih Abdulhayoglu in Forbes Turkey's 12th "100 Richest Turks" List". Forbes.com. Retrieved 2017-03-02.
- ^ "Do You Need EV-SSL? [VIDEO]". www.esecurityplanet.com. 9 May 2014.
- ^ Larry Seltzer (2008-05-09). "Melih was the original force behind the CA/Browser Forum and EV-SSL". Eweek.com. Retrieved 2013-06-11.
- ^ "Melih Abdulhayoglu co-founded the CAB Forum". Scribd.com. 2012-09-14. Retrieved 2013-06-11.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "AV vendors fight 'scareware' with new whitelist - Techworld.com". News.techworld.com. Retrieved 2013-06-11.
- ^ "Melih Abdulhayoğlu - CNN TÜRK Video". Video.cnnturk.com. 2012-10-16. Archived from the original on 2013-01-19. Retrieved 2013-06-11.
- ^ "Melih Abdulhayoğlu - CNN TÜRK Video". Archived from the original on 2013-12-19. Retrieved 2013-12-19.
- ^ "Forbes Turkey's 12th 100 Richest Turks". sabah.com. Retrieved 2017-03-02.
- ^ "Forbes announcement about Melih". Forbes.com. Retrieved 2018-04-04.