David Hindawi

Hindawi was born to an Iraqi Jewish family in Baghdad but moved to Israel in 1951.[1][2] 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 UC Berkeley.[1]

In 1984, he founded a telecommunications company, Software Ventures, which was sold to an Internet service provider in 1995.[2][3] In 1997, he founded BigFix Inc, an IT systems management company that was acquired by IBM for $400 million in 2010.[2] In 2007, along with his son, Orion Hindawi, he founded the cybersecurity firm, Tanium Inc.[1] In September 2015, they raised $120 million in new funding that valued Tanium at $3.5 billion and making each of them a billionaire.[1] 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.[2] In February 2016, Orion took over as CEO from his father, who continued to serve as the company's executive chairman.[1][4]

Hindawi is married and has two children.[1]