David Hindawi is an American entrepreneur and the self-made billionaire co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of Tanium, a global leader in cybersecurity and endpoint management. Born in Baghdad, Iraq, in 1944, to an Iraqi-Jewish family, his life was defined by geopolitical upheaval; he moved to Israel in 1951 and later immigrated to the United States in 1970.

His technical education was formidable: he earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Industrial and Management Engineering from the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology), and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the University of California at Berkeley. After college, he served in the Israeli Air Force's Operations Research department, instilling a mission-critical approach to technical problem-solving. This high-level technical and military background became the foundation for his serial entrepreneurship in enterprise software.

David Hindawi's career is marked by three successful enterprise software ventures. 1984: Software Ventures. He founded this telecommunications software company, which he sold in 1995. 1997: BigFix, Inc. He founded this enterprise systems management solution, which was acquired by IBM for $400 million in 2010. This success provided the capital and blueprint for his most significant venture.

2007: Tanium. He co-founded Tanium Inc. with his son, Orion Hindawi, recognizing the massive need for a fundamentally new approach to enterprise security. Their innovation was a unique peer-to-peer (P2P) system that allows large organizations to identify, assess, and fix security vulnerabilities across hundreds of thousands of endpoints in seconds. This technology set Tanium apart from competitors like Symantec and McAfee, achieving a valuation of $10 billion. Hindawi transitioned to Chairman Emeritus in 2016, securing his multi-billion dollar fortune, while his son assumed the CEO role.

David Hindawi's social impact is structural, stemming from Tanium's role in securing the world's largest corporate and government networks against cyber threats. His technology is essential for national and corporate security and provides thousands of high-value technology jobs.

His personal philanthropy often supports scientific and technical education. His career provides an inspirational narrative of a highly educated émigré who used his technical expertise to become a serial entrepreneur and a foundational leader in the multi-billion dollar cybersecurity sector.

David Hindawi maintains the professional, composed style of a technology executive and engineer. His attire is consistently formal and high-quality, favoring tailored suits. His aesthetic is one of serious authority, reflecting his engineering background and his high-stakes focus on network security.

Residing in Seattle, Washington, his luxury is the profound security and autonomy derived from his multi-billion dollar fortune. His life is defined by his commitment to technical problem-solving and his successful collaboration with his son in the highly competitive cybersecurity industry.