Melih Abdülhayoğlu
Turkish-American entrepreneur
Melih Abdulhayoğlu (born 10 March 1968) is the CEO of MAVeCap, an incubator Venture capital firm funded by his family office. His first company was Comodo Group, which is now branded as Xcitium.2
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Born Mar 10, 1968.1
About
Another part of the company, the Comodo certificate authority, is now branded as Sectigo.
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Companies
- Comodo GroupChief executive officer13
- Comodo GroupChair13
- Comodo GroupFounder13
Early life and education
- 1991University of Bradford Bachelor of Science; electronics engineering3
Melih Abdulhayoglu was born in Turkey, where he studied at a 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.
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Career
Occupation: engineering technologist, entrepreneur, computer scientist.9
- Date not recordedFounded Comodo Group4
- Date not recordedFounded CA/Browser Forum5
- Date not recordedFounded Common Computing Security Standards Forum6
- Date not recordedChief executive, Comodo Group7
- Date not recordedChair, Comodo Group8
Abdulhayoglu is the founder of Comodo, an internet security company, 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.
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.
Abdulhayoglu is featured in Forbes Turkey's 12th "100 Richest Turks" list, announced in March 2017. Forbes announced that he is estimated net worth of US$1.6 billion as of April 2018.
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Personal life
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- 1WikidataMelih Abdülhayoğlu on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaMelih Abdülhayoğlu on Wikipedia
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- 14Wikimedia CommonsMelih Abdülhayoğlu photo by Lakshmi Narsimhan, Public domain