
John McAfee Found Dead Hours after Spanish Court Approved His Extradition to US
McAfee maintained both British and American citizenship while alive and he once tried to run for US presidency under the Libertarian Party.
Software engineer and British-American entrepreneur.
John David McAfee is a British-American computer programmer and businessman. He founded the software company McAfee Associates in 1987 and ran it until 1994, when he resigned from the company. McAfee Associates achieved early success as the creators of McAfee, the first commercial antivirus software, and the business now produces a range of enterprise security software. The company was purchased by Intel in 2011 and spun back out in 2017 with TPG Capital owning a majority stake, though the software has always borne the McAfee brand name. McAfee’s wealth peaked in 2007 at $100 million, before his investments plummeted in the global financial crisis that began that year.
Since leaving McAfee Associates, he has founded the companies Tribal Voice (makers of the PowWow chat program), QuorumEx and Future Tense Central, among others, and has been involved in leadership positions in the companies Everykey, MGT Capital Investments and Luxcore, among others. His personal and business interests include smartphone apps, cryptocurrency, yoga, and all-natural antibiotics. He resided for a number of years in Belize, but later returned to the United States in 2013.
McAfee is also a political activist, who sought the 2016 Libertarian Party nomination for President of the United States in the 2016 election, losing to former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson.
McAfee Associates
Sep 18th, 1945
American-British
Lexington, Tennessee, United States
Roanoke College, BS in Mathematics
Luxcore - CEO
McAfee Associates - Founder - 1987-1994
MGT Capital Investments - Chief Executive Chairman and CEO - 2016-2018
McAfee maintained both British and American citizenship while alive and he once tried to run for US presidency under the Libertarian Party.
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