Orion Hindawi

Last updated
Orion Hindawi
Born1980 (age 4344)
Education University of California, Berkeley
Occupationsoftware entrepreneur
Known forco-founder of Tanium, Inc.
Children2
Parent David Hindawi

Orion Hindawi (born 1980) is an American billionaire software entrepreneur, and co-founder of cybersecurity firm Tanium. [1]

Contents

Biography

Hindawi was born and raised in Berkeley, California, [2] [3] and attended the University of California, Berkeley. He is the son of billionaire David Hindawi, an Iraqi Jewish immigrant from Israel. [3]

In 2007, along with his father, he founded the cybersecurity firm, Tanium. [2] In September 2015, they raised $120 million in new funding that valued Tanium at $10 billion. [2] Tanium uses a novel 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 linear chain 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. [3]

In February 2016, Orion took over as CEO from his father. [2] In 2023, Orion stepped down as CEO and appointed Dan Streetman as a replacement.

Personal life

Hindawi is married and has two children. [2]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Vinod Khosla</span> Indian-American businessman (born 1955)

Vinod Khosla is an Indian-American billionaire businessman and venture capitalist. He is a co-founder of Sun Microsystems and the founder of Khosla Ventures. Khosla made his wealth from early venture capital investments in areas such as networking, software, and alternative energy technologies. He is considered one of the most successful and influential venture capitalists.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">David Filo</span> American businessman (born 1966)

David Robert Filo is an American billionaire businessman and the co-founder of Yahoo! with classmate Jerry Yang. His Filo Server Program, written in the C programming language, was the server-side software used to dynamically serve variable web pages, called Filo Server Pages, on visits to early versions of the Yahoo! website.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Thomas Siebel</span> American businessman

Thomas M. Siebel is an American billionaire businessman, technologist, and author. He was the founder of enterprise software company Siebel Systems and is the founder, chairman, and CEO of C3.ai, an artificial intelligence software platform and applications company.

Donald George Fisher was an American billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He co-founded The Gap Inc. clothing stores with his wife Doris F. Fisher.

David Elliot Shaw is an American billionaire scientist and former hedge fund manager. He founded D. E. Shaw & Co., a hedge fund company which was once described by Fortune magazine as "the most intriguing and mysterious force on Wall Street". A former assistant professor in the computer science department at Columbia University, Shaw made his fortune exploiting inefficiencies in financial markets with the help of state-of-the-art high speed computer networks. In 1996, Fortune magazine referred to him as "King Quant" because of his firm's pioneering role in high-speed quantitative trading. In 2001, Shaw turned to full-time scientific research in computational biochemistry, more specifically molecular dynamics simulations of proteins.

Tom Gores is an American billionaire businessman. He is the founder of Platinum Equity, a private equity firm headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In June 2011, Gores and Platinum Equity became the owners of the National Basketball Association's Detroit Pistons. He became the sole owner in 2015. As of March 2022, his net worth was estimated at $6 billion.

World Wide Technology, Inc. (WWT) is a privately-held technology services provider based in St. Louis, Missouri. The company has an annual revenue of $17.0 billion and employs over 9,000 people. WWT works in the areas of cloud computing, computer security, data centers, data analytics and artificial intelligence, computer networks, application software development, cell phone carrier networking, and consulting services.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Marc Benioff</span> American businessman (born 1964)

Marc Russell Benioff is an American internet entrepreneur and philanthropist. Benioff is best known as the co-founder, chairman and CEO of the software company Salesforce, as well as being the owner of Time magazine since 2018.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ken Xie</span> American billionaire businessman (born 1963)

Ken Xie is an American billionaire businessman who founded Systems Integration Solutions (SIS), NetScreen, and Fortinet.

Saket Modi is an entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Safe Security, a cybersecurity and digital business risk quantification company, based out of Palo Alto, California.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lei Jun</span> Chinese billionaire entrepreneur (born 1969)

Lei Jun is a Chinese billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is known for founding the consumer electronics company Xiaomi. As of October 2022, Lei's net worth was estimated at either US$8.1 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, making him the 203rd richest person in the world, or at $7.5 billion by Forbes, ranking him 265th worldwide.

David Hindawi is an Iraqi-born, American billionaire software entrepreneur, and co-founder of cybersecurity firm Tanium.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tanium</span> American cybersecurity and systems management company

Tanium is a privately held cybersecurity and systems management company founded in 2007 with headquarters in Kirkland, Washington, and its operations center in Emeryville, California.

John Zanni is the Chief Executive Officer of Acronis SCS, an Arizona-based edge data security and cyber protection company that provides software to the US public sector. As part of this role, he often speaks at conferences, publishes articles, and participates in media interviews to discuss cybersecurity strategies, tools, and best practices. Prior to becoming Acronis SCS' CEO, Zanni held various leadership and management positions at Acronis, Parallels, and Microsoft.

Shlomo Kramer, is an Israeli information technology entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder of cyber-security companies Check Point and Imperva, as well as Cato Networks, a cloud-based network security provider.

Ashar Aziz is a Pakistani–American electrical engineer, business executive, and philanthropist. He is best known as the founder of Silicon Valley-based cybersecurity company FireEye. A former billionaire, Aziz had an estimated net worth of over $ 233 million as of 2015.

BitSight Technologies, Inc. is a cybersecurity ratings company that analyzes companies, government agencies, and educational institutions. It is based in Back Bay, Boston. Security ratings that are delivered by BitSight are used by banks and insurance companies among other organizations. The company rates more than 200,000 organizations with respect to their cybersecurity.

SentinelOne, Inc. is an American cybersecurity company listed on NYSE based in Mountain View, California. The company was founded in 2013 by Tomer Weingarten, Almog Cohen and Ehud ("Udi") Shamir. Weingarten acts as the company's CEO. Vats Srivatsan is the company's COO. The company has approximately 2,100 employees and offices in Mountain View, Boston, Prague, Tokyo, and Tel Aviv. The company uses machine learning for monitoring personal computers, IoT devices, and cloud workloads. The company's platform utilizes a heuristic model, specifically its patented behavioral AI. The company is AV-TEST certified.

Apoorva Mehta is a billionaire Indo-Canadian businessman and the founder of Instacart and Cloud Health Systems. As of September 2023 he had a net worth of $1.1 billion, owing to his 10% ownership share of Instacart and his stake in Cloud Health Systems.

References

  1. "Tanium's Family Empire Is in Crisis". Bloomberg.com. 2017-04-13. Retrieved 2021-03-16.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Forbes: The World's Billionaires - Orion Hindawi 2 March 2020
  3. 1 2 3 Forbes: "Meet Tanium, The Secret Cybersecurity Weapon Of Target, Visa And Amazon" April 15, 2015