Melih Abdulhayoğlu (born March 10, 1968) is the

CEO A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especially ...

of MAVeCap, an incubator Venture Capital firm funded by his family office. MAVeCap focusses on building tomorrow's technology platform companies. His first company was Comodo The firm is now branded as Sectigo.

Early life

Melih Abdulhayoglu was born in Turkey, where he studied at

Hatay Hatay Province ( tr, Hatay ili, ) is the southernmost province of Turkey. It is situated almost entirely outside Anatolia, along the eastern coast of the Levantine Sea. The province borders Syria to its south and east, the Turkish province of ...

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.

Career

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 Common Computing Security Standards Forum (CCSS Forum) is a voluntary organization of vendors and providers of security software, operating systems, and Internet browsers. Goals The CCSS Forum was formed to with the following goals: * Mitigating ...

, initially to deal with the problem of faux antivirus software being used by cyber-criminals. Abdulhayoglu features 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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Melih Abdulhayoğlu

Comodo Newsroom - Melih in the News

CNN Interview
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