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Turkish-American entrepreneur
Melih Abdulhayoglu
Born (1968-03-10 ) 10 March 1968 (age 56) 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
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.
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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.
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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 .
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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 .
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Abdulhayoglu features in Forbes Turkey's 12th "100 Richest Turks" list, announced in March, 2017.
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[13] Forbes announced that he is estimated net worth of US$1.6 billion as of April 2018.
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References
^ TurkofAmerica Magazine, turkofamerica.com (December 5, 2010).
"The Security of the Internet Is in the Hands of A Turk" . Retrieved October 9, 2011 .
^ Hendric, William.
"About Private Equity Group MAVeCap" . melih.com . Retrieved July 4, 2021 .
^ Murphy, Ian (November 2, 2018).
"Comodo CA becomes Sectigo and expands to cover IoT -" .
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"Melih Abdulhayoglu" . Forbes . Retrieved 2021-01-04 .
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"Melih Abdulhayoglu in Forbes Turkey's 12th "100 Richest Turks" List" . Forbes.com . Retrieved 2017-03-02 .
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"Do You Need EV-SSL? [VIDEO]" . www.esecurityplanet.com . 9 May 2014.
^ Larry Seltzer (2008-05-09).
"Melih was the original force behind the CA/Browser Forum and EV-SSL" . Eweek.com. Retrieved 2013-06-11 .
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"Melih Abdulhayoglu co-founded the CAB Forum" . Scribd.com. 2012-09-14. Retrieved 2013-06-11 .
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Dunn, John (July 16, 2009).
"AV vendors fight 'scareware' with new whitelist" . TechWorld. Archived from
the original on July 1, 2013. Retrieved June 6, 2013 .
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"AV vendors fight 'scareware' with new whitelist - Techworld.com" . News.techworld.com. Retrieved 2013-06-11 .
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"Melih Abdulhayoğlu - CNN TÜRK Video" . Video.cnnturk.com. 2012-10-16. Archived from
the original on 2013-06-14. Retrieved 2013-06-11 .
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"Melih Abdulhayoğlu - CNN TÜRK Video" . Archived from
the original on 2013-12-19. Retrieved 2013-12-19 .
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"Forbes Turkey's 12th 100 Richest Turks" . sabah.com. Retrieved 2017-03-02 .
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"Forbes announcement about Melih" . Forbes.com . Retrieved 2018-04-04 .
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