Orion Hindawi and David Hindawi, a father-son duo recognized that IT management issues and increasing cybercrimes could not be solved by technology alone. Thus, the duo took the next step and set up a company called Tanium. In 2007, Orion Hindawi set up Tanium with his father in partnership. Presently, Tanium stands out differently than the other competitors McAfee, Symantec, etc. Because the company uses a novel approach to cybersecurity that is unique.
All this achieved under the guidance of father-son duo. However, Orion is playing a crucial role in exploring the business of the company. Currently, he leads product strategy and development of the Tanium platform. Also, responsible for all customer-facing technical operations as well as management functions.
Tanium’s co-founder and CEO- Orion Hindawi
American businessman Orion Hindawi is the present CEO of the Tanium. Earlier, he worked at VP technology for more than 8 years. Orion is a technology executive with deep technical experience in enterprise management software. Let’s see the details of personal as well as the professional life of Orion Hindawi.
Personal Life
He was born in 1980 in an Iraqi Jewish family. However, he spent most of his childhood in Berkeley, California. As his father David Hindawi was shifted to California from Israel to earn a Ph. D. at UC Berkeley. Following father’s path, he also admitted to the same college. But he dropped out before graduation to help his father at work.
Career achievements of Orion Hindawi
Before setting up Tanium, Orion co-founded another security management platform called BigFix. He served more than 17 years in the firm where he led the development of endpoint security and management platform. This firm later on acquired by IBM in 2010. Also, he had a great contribution to what the Tanium is today. As well, he works with Tanium costumers daily so that the Tanium platform would find out new approaches for solving the significant challenges of securing and managing large enterprise environments. Presently, he is one of the board of directors at Tanium. In 2016, he succeeded his father and became the new CEO of the company.
The Tanium foundation Backstory
The vision of the founders behind the Tanium establishment was to empower the largest organizations of the world to manage and secure their networks. Tanium is a resultant of this idea that solves the biggest security issues of the firms. Especially, focusing on the IT sector. With this vision, Orion and David Hindawi established Tanium in 2007. In a short duration, the company managed to provide a new way to manage and secure the networks against cyber threats. Today, it has a team of smartest people with the deepest expertise in the market. In fact, the duo spent almost five years to develop a cybersecurity platform so that the technology would scale across the largest global networks.
About Tanium
It is American system management and endpoint security firm. It headquartered at Emeryville in California. However, the firm managed to understand the security issues the IT industry faced and enable the best cybersecurity solution. Tanium uses advance technology along with a deep understanding of the processes and people. Thus, enabling the best service to keep the client’s most precious data secure.
Under Orion and his father’s guidance, several largest and most respected firms in the world re-platformed endpoint security as well as management with Tanium. Includes, AutoNation, Barclays, GoDaddy, Whirlpool, Sutter Health as well as U. S. Navy.
Bottom Line
The firm Orion and his father David Hindawi established in 2007 raised 120 million dollars in funding in the past. However, the company successfully raised many fundings that valued Tanium at 3.5 billion dollars firm. In return, the father-son duo became a billionaire. Presently, it is one of the leading endpoint security companies that ensures the client’s sensitive data security.
Presently, 1,000+ experts worked at Tanium to make its platform more advanced. The company is unstoppable and consistently working to transform IT management. Also, aims to solve unsolvable problems of IT management and cybersecurity.
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