Melih Abdulhayoğlu
Turkish-American entrepreneur
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Melih Abdulhayoğlu (born 10 March 1968) is the CEO of MAVeCap, an incubator Venture capital firm funded by his family office.[2] His first company was Comodo Group, which is now branded as Xcitium.[3] Another part of the company, the Comodo certificate authority, is now branded as Sectigo.
BS Electronic Engineering, 1991
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| Born | 10 March 1968 |
| Alma mater | University of Bradford (UK) BS Electronic Engineering, 1991 |
| Occupations | Technologist, Entrepreneur |
| Known for | Founder & Chairman of Comodo |
| Website | melih |
Early life
Melih Abdulhayoglu was born in Turkey, where he studied at a Hatay high school.[4] 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.[5]
Career
Abdulhayoglu is the founder of Comodo, an internet security company,[6] 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.[7][8][9]
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.[10][11][12][13]
Abdulhayoglu is featured in Forbes Turkey's 12th "100 Richest Turks" list, announced in March 2017.[6][14] Forbes announced that he is estimated net worth of US$1.6 billion as of April 2018.[15]