David Hindawi
{{Short description|Iraqi-born, American billionaire software entrepreneur}}
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| native_name = ديفيد هنداوي
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1944}}
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| education = University of California, Berkeley
| occupation = investor, philanthropist
| known_for = co-founder of Tanium, Inc.
| children = 2
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David Hindawi (Arabic: ديفيد هنداوي; born 1944) is an Iraqi-born, American billionaire software entrepreneur, and co-founder of cybersecurity firm Tanium.{{Cite news|date=2017-04-13|title=Tanium's Family Empire Is in Crisis|language=en|work=Bloomberg.com|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-13/tanium-s-family-empire-is-in-crisis|access-date=2021-03-16}}
Biography
Hindawi was born on December 8, 1944, to an Iraqi-Jewish family in Baghdad and moved to Israel in 1951.[https://www.forbes.com/profile/david-hindawi/?list=billionaires Forbes: The World's Billionaires - David Hindawi] July 2019[https://www.forbes.com/sites/briansolomon/2015/04/15/meet-tanium-the-secret-cybersecurity-weapon-of-target-visa-and-amazon/#233702c2f907 Forbes: "Meet Tanium, The Secret Cybersecurity Weapon Of Target, Visa And Amazon"] 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=972788&privcapId=60509712|title=David Hindawi: Executive Profile & Biography - Businessweek|website=www.bloomberg.com|access-date=2016-07-15}} 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, he founded the cybersecurity firm, 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 Symantec 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/briansolomon/2016/02/22/tanium-has-a-new-ceo-as-it-prepares-to-take-on-hostile-ipo-market/#903ad17b59ab|title=Tanium Has A New CEO As It Prepares To Take On Hostile IPO Market|last=Solomon|first=Brian|website=Forbes |access-date=2016-07-15}}
Personal life
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