Melih Abdulhayoğlu

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
Born	(1968-03-10) 10 March 1968 (age 57) Hatay, Turkey[1]
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.com

Early life

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]

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]