Kirkland-based cybersecurity company Tanium is looking to move its headquarters, but it won't be going very far.
The move is happening more than three years after Tanium relocated its headquarters from Emeryville, California, to Kirkland's Carillon Point in late 2020.
The company on Tuesday confirmed it is looking for a larger space in Bellevue to accommodate its growing team. It didn't have details, however, on where it is looking or how large the new space will be.
"We've completely outgunned our office in Kirkland," said Orion Hindawi, Tanium's co-founder and executive chairman. "Everybody already knows this, but the talent pool here is exceptional for what we do. I expect that we're going to continue hiring quite a bit here."
Tanium has more than 1,800 employees, including 81 based in Washington. The company had just under 6,800 square feet at Carillon Point as of 2022. Hindawi said the company is still figuring out its office policy, adding that some roles are hard to do remotely, but Tanium doesn't want to be punitive to employees working remotely.
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Tanium protects clients' end devices, like laptops and smartphones, from cybercriminals. Its clients include Barclays, Honeywell and AutoNation. The company had a valuation of over $9 billion as of 2020. The company still has an office in Emeryville, as well as offices in North Carolina, Texas and Maryland.
Hindawi co-founded Tanium in 2007 with his father, David Hindawi. Orion Hindawi relinquished the CEO role to former Tibco Software CEO Dan Streetman in February 2023. Hindawi stepped into the executive chairman role instead, and his father moved into the chairman emeritus role.
Streetman was the CEO at Tibco for more than three years. He has also worked at Salesforce and the information technology company BMC Software.
Hindawi said Streetman has the necessary skills to run a large company, and moving into the executive chairman role allows Hindawi to focus on his strengths.
"It gave me the chance to go back to doing a lot of the product and customer work that I really love doing," Hindawi said. "I'm spending most of my time now meeting with our customers, which I love doing. Now that we can do it in-person again, that feels really nice. And then I'm talking to our engineering team."
