Melih Abdulhayoğlu (born 10 March 1968) is the

CEO A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a chief executive or managing director, is the top-ranking corporate officer charged with the management of an organization, usually a company or a nonprofit organization. CEOs find roles in variou ...

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 Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...

, where he studied at

Hatay Hatay Province (, ) is the southernmost Provinces of Turkey, province and Metropolitan municipalities in Turkey, metropolitan municipality of Turkey. Its area is , and its population is 1,686,043 (2022). It is situated mostly outside Anatolia, ...

high-school. At the age of 18, he moved to the

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, where he earned a

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Electronic Engineering Electronic engineering is a sub-discipline of electrical engineering that emerged in the early 20th century and is distinguished by the additional use of active components such as semiconductor devices to amplify and control electric current flo ...

from the

University of Bradford The University of Bradford is a public research university located in the city of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. A plate glass university, it received its royal charter in 1966, making it the 40th university to be created in Britain, but ...

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 web browsers. Goals The CCSS Forum was formed with the following goals: * Mitigating the risk ...

, 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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