Melih Abdulhayoğlu Explained

Melih Abdulhayoglu
Birth Date:1968 3, df=yes
Birth Place:Hatay, Turkey[1]
Nationality:American, Turkish
Occupation:Technologist, Entrepreneur
Alma Mater:University of Bradford (UK)
BS Electronic Engineering, 1991
Known For:Founder & Chairman of Comodo

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

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]

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Notes and References

  1. News: The Security of the Internet Is in the Hands of A Turk . TurkofAmerica Magazine, turkofamerica.com . December 5, 2010. October 9, 2011.
  2. Web site: About Private Equity Group MAVeCap . William . Hendric . melih.com . July 4, 2021.
  3. Web site: Comodo CA becomes Sectigo and expands to cover IoT -. Ian. Murphy. November 2, 2018.
  4. Web site: Melih Abdulhayoglu. 2021-01-04. Forbes. en.
  5. Web site: Melih Abdulhayoglu in Forbes Turkey's 12th "100 Richest Turks" List. Forbes.com . 2017-03-02.
  6. Web site: Do You Need EV-SSL? [VIDEO]]. www.esecurityplanet.com. 9 May 2014 .
  7. Web site: Larry Seltzer . Melih was the original force behind the CA/Browser Forum and EV-SSL . Eweek.com . 2008-05-09 . 2013-06-11.
  8. Web site: Melih Abdulhayoglu co-founded the CAB Forum . Scribd.com . 2012-09-14 . 2013-06-11.
  9. Web site: AV vendors fight 'scareware' with new whitelist . John . Dunn . John E. Dunn . July 16, 2009 . TechWorld . June 6, 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130701074227/http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/071609-av-vendors-fight-scareware-with.html . July 1, 2013.
  10. Web site: AV vendors fight 'scareware' with new whitelist - Techworld.com . News.techworld.com . 2013-06-11.
  11. Web site: Melih Abdulhayoğlu - CNN TÜRK Video . Video.cnnturk.com . 2012-10-16 . 2013-06-11 . dead . https://archive.today/20130119170657/http://video.cnnturk.com/video/arama/?t=12754 . 2013-01-19 .
  12. Web site: Melih Abdulhayoğlu - CNN TÜRK Video . 2013-12-19 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131219022952/http://www.cnnturkwebtv.net/video/arama/?t=12754 . 2013-12-19 .
  13. Web site: Forbes Turkey's 12th 100 Richest Turks. sabah.com . 2017-03-02.
  14. Web site: Forbes announcement about Melih . Forbes.com . 2018-04-04.

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