Melih Abdulhayoglu | |
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Born | |
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 |
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 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]
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]
Melih Abdulhayoglu | |
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Born | |
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 |
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 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]
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]