Orion hindawi cofounded cybersecurity firm tanium with his father david in 2007. David hindawi born 1944 is an iraqiborn, american software entrepreneur and billionaire biography. In 1997, during the dotcom boom, david hindawi started a tech company in emeryville. At the tanium conference, orion hindawi talked about the importance of software patching and security hygiene. Tanium bootstrapped first, raised money later on one million by one million. David hindawi cofounder executive chairman david hindawi, an accomplished entrepreneur and inventor, cofounded tanium in 2007 and serves as its executive chairman.
Today, bigfix solutions are proven in production at more than 350 companies, government agencies and public sector institutions worldwide, and on hundreds of thousands of pc clients, workstations, and servers managing millions of changes. Lightning doesnt often strike twice, but in the case of the fatherandson team of david and orion hindawi, founders of tanium, inc. The companys initial product was a user selfservice system management application that was marketed to oem pc manufacturers. An introduction to tanium the technology partner for. David and orion hindawi s family business is a unicorn. In 2007, orion hindawi set up tanium with his father in partnership. Talia hermanthe new york times via redux david hindawi is an iraqiborn jew who moved with his family to israel when.
After college he served in the israeli air forces operations research department. Tanium transforms it pros into proactive cybersecurity. He presided as the chairman of the board and ceo of bigfix. David hindawi iraqiborn, american software entrepreneur. Prior to bigfix, david was founder and chief executive officer of software ventures and a leader in telecommunications software. David hindawi born 1945 is an iraqiborn, american software entrepreneur and billionaire biography. Tanium an enterprisescale realtime security and systems management company is a prime example of a modern enterprise software company.
Patents by inventor david salim hindawi david salim hindawi has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. He also founded it management system called bigfix inc. Ibm changed the name of the bigfix product to ibm tivoli endpoint manager tem, but then shortened the name to ibm endpoint manager iem in 20. Orion hindawi and david hindawi, a fatherson duo recognized that it management issues and increasing cybercrimes could not be solved by technology alone. In an interview, bigfix chief executive officer david hindawi said the software works by first analyzing a pc, then finding fixlets that pertain to that system. Theyre fabulousi love bigfix, says david giambruno, director of engineering and security at pitney bowes. Controversial tanium ceo explains why he and his dad have. He previously occupied the position of chief executive officer of bigfix, inc.
Both david and orion hindawi left bigfix several years. Bigfix experts will keep you informed with the latest information about the software and upcoming events. David hindawi was bornon 1944 in berkeley, california, united states, is executive chairman, tanium. Tanium was founded by david and orion hindawi in 2007, who previously had started endpoint security system management vendor bigfix in 1997.
Serving in the israeli air force after college, he would make. Dr david hindawi is the chairman of the board and chief executive officer at tanium inc. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the united states patent and trademark office uspto. Tanium hires facebooks chris bream as cto, orion hindawi. In february 2016, orion took over as ceo of tanium from.
Prior to founding bigfix, hindawi held several executive management roles, including serving as ceo of software ventures, a market leader in telecommunications software. The cybersecurity specialist tanium was founded in 2007 by father and son duo david and orion hindawi after they sold their first business, bigfix, to ibm in 2010. Tanium has hired chris bream, facebook product security director, as cto. Of course, patching is just as much of a security issue as it is an operation. Hindawi founded software ventures and led the company to its acquisition by psinet, inc. In 1997 he founded a leading systems management company, bigfix, inc. Le duo avait déjà démarré bigfix, un système de correction de logiciels informatiques quils ont vendu à. The startup bigfix helped other businesses manage the software. By then, the hindawis already had moved on to tanium, building the software in secret for five years before unveiling a new, superfast way to scan and.
Born in iraq to a jewish family in 1944, david hindawi grew up in baghdad before moving to israel in 1951. Emeryville, californiabased tanium was founded in 2007 by the father and son team of chairman david hindawi and ceo orion hindawi david has previously founded bigfix, acquired by ibm. Read whats happening with endpoint manager on the official product blog. An accomplished entrepreneur and inventor, hindawi holds a number of software patents. David hindawi, an accomplished entrepreneur and inventor, founded bigfix in 1997. David hindawi iraqiborn, american software entrepreneur and billionaire. David hindawi, an accomplished entrepreneur and inventor, cofounded tanium in 2007 and serves as the executive chairman. He received a doctorate from the university of california, berkeley and an undergraduate degree and a graduate degree from technionisrael ins. Tanium is a triple unicorn ready for ipo take off private. Bigfix was founded in 1997 by david hindawi, who was the companys chairman of the board until several years ago, when he was replaced by dave robbins, the companys current president, chief. Operationally, its one of the best technologies weve put in, giambruno says. See, tanium was founded by david and orion hindawi, the father and son team that created the bigfix management software that was later sold to ibm. David founded software ventures a telecom company in 1970 which he ran as the chief executive officer and then later in 1995, he sold it to an internet service provider, psinet.
The two had previously cofounded an earlier company, bigfix, which they sold to. In 1970, he immigrated to the united states where he earned a phd from uc berkeley. David hindawi s idea for bigfix was to simplify control of networked computers, which eventually expanded into an entire management package, including. David hindawi is ceo and chairman of the board of tanium inc. Thus, the duo took the next step and set up a company called tanium. As mentioned previously, both bigfix and tanium were created by fatherson duo david and orion hindawi. The father and son pair founded tanium in 2007, a cybersecurity firm that works. David, left, and orion hindawi at the offices of tanium in 2015. Bigfix is a global company that provides comprehensive and innovative security configuration management solutions. Hindawi occupies the position of executive chairman of tanium, inc. Tanium executives exit amid allegations ceo mistreats staff.
A decade before founding tanium in 2007, the team developed bigfix for enterprise endpoint managementthe company was later sold to ibm in. David hindawi cofounded cybersecurity firm tanium with his son orion in 2007. Hindawi was born to an iraqi jewish family in baghdad but moved to israel in 1951. The duo previously started bigfix, an it software patching system that they sold to. Hindawi somewhat famously started tanium with his father, david hindawi, who is the companys executive chairman. Ibm changed the name back to ibm bigfix on july 7, 2015.
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