David Hindawi (Arabic: ديفيد هنداوي; born 1944) is an Iraqi-born, American billionaire software entrepreneur, and co-founder of cybersecurity firm Tanium.

Biography

Hindawi was born on December 8, 1944 to an

Iraqi-Jewish The history of the Jews in Iraq ( he, יְהוּדִים בָּבְלִים, ', ; ar, اليهود العراقيون, ) is documented from the time of the Babylonian captivity c. 586 BC. Iraqi Jews constitute one of the world's oldest and mos ...

family in Baghdad and moved to Israel in 1951.Forbes: The World's Billionaires - David Hindawi
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April 15, 2015 After college he served in the Israeli Air Force's Operations Research department. In 1970, he immigrated to the United States where he earned a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. In 1984, he founded a telecommunications company, Software Ventures, which was sold to an Internet service provider in 1995. In 1997, he founded BigFix Inc, an IT systems management company that was acquired by IBM for $400 million in 2010. In 2007, along with his son,

Orion Hindawi Orion Hindawi (born 1980) is an American billionaire software entrepreneur, and co-founder of cybersecurity firm Tanium. Biography Hindawi was born and raised in Berkeley, California,Tanium Inc. In September 2015, they raised $120 million in new funding that valued Tanium at $10 billion. Tanium uses an approach to cybersecurity different from its main competitors

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and Intel's McAfee which have a central data center that communicates directly with individual computers (and requiring a massive investment in data centers), Tanium instead uses a peer-to-peer system where each computer on a network talks to the computer adjacent to it, pooling data, and then relaying the information in a chain before sending it back to a single server. In February 2016, Orion took over as CEO from his father, who continued to serve as the company's executive chairman.

Personal life

Hindawi is married to Hanna Hindawi and has two children.

References

American billionaires American people of Iraqi-Jewish descent 1944 births Living people Israeli emigrants to the United States Iraqi emigrants to Israel Iraqi people of Indian descent Israeli people of Indian-Jewish descent American people of Indian descent American businesspeople {{business-bio-stub