Zvi Schreiber
Zvi Schreiber | |
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צבי שרייבר | |
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| Born | 9 June 1969 |
| Spouse | Rina Frei Schreiber |
Zvi Schreiber (/ˈtsviː/, Hebrew: צבי שרייבר; born 9 June 1969) is a British-Israeli businessman, executive, and author. He founded high-tech startups like G.ho.st, which at the time was considered the only high-tech startup with a joint Palestinian–Israeli team.[1][2][3] In 2011 Schreiber was CEO of Lightech which he sold to GE Lighting.[4]
Biography
Zvi Schreiber has a BA in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge, an MSc in Theoretical Physics (Quantum Fields) from Imperial College London, and a PhD in Computer Science from Imperial College London.[5] He is the brother of Daniel Schreiber, CEO and co-founder of Lemonade. Schreiber also studied at Yeshivat Har Etzion.
Business career
Schreiber is the former CEO of startup logistics technology company Freightos,[6] a digital booking platform for international air and ocean freight[7] that he describes as the "equivalent of Expedia/Orbitz/Kayak for the shipment of goods rather than people".[8] Under Schreiber's leadership Freightos also acquired WebCargo[9] which is a booking platform for freight forwarders, airlines and ocean liners, and launched the daily Freightos Baltic Index (FBX) of containerized shipping prices.[10]
In 2011 Schreiber was CEO of Lightech Electronic Industries Ltd,[11] based in Israel, where he had served as a director since 1996. His father David Schreiber, an experienced businessman and investor, chaired the board.[12] Lightech was acquired by GE Lighting at the end of 2011, during Schreiber's tenure.[13]
Schreiber founded the following companies:
- IsraTec Limited
- Tradeum Inc, acquired by VerticalNet[14]
- Unicorn Inc, acquired by IBM[15]
- Ghost Inc[16] (which traded as G.ho.st and has now closed operations).
- Freightos Limited
Schreiber has been invited to speak at software industry events[17][18][19] and economic conferences.[20]
He is a co-inventor of several patents and patent applications.[21] He is the author of a paper presenting a Distributed Ledger Technology (Blockchain) algorithm named k-root-n.[22]
Published works
- Money, Going out of style, a book which explains the fundamentals of money and explores modern issues of inequality and money printing without inflation.[23]
- Bad Hair Day, a small picture book with his own photography
- Fizz: Nothing is as it seems, which tells the story of the history of physics through a novel about a troubled young girl who time travels to meet Galileo, Newton, Einstein, and others, in the genre of Sophie's World.
References
- ^ One team, two offices: Israel and Palestine Fortune Small Business, 10 March 2009.
- ^ "Tech Startup Bridges Mideast Divide", BusinessWeek, 27 December 2007
- ^ "Co-operation in the ether", The Economist, 23 July 2009
- ^ "Lightech Announces Zvi Schreiber as CEO", Edison Report, 1 February 2011
- ^ "The Nine Lives of Schroedinger's Cat", MSc thesis, Imperial College, January 1995.
- ^ Jeffrey, Rebecca (18 December 2025). "Freightos founder Schreiber to step down as chief executive - Air Cargo News". Air Cargo News - Airfreight updates, insights and news. Retrieved 24 February 2026.
- ^ "About Us". Freightos.
- ^ Abel, Shira (9 June 2013). "Freightos: Bringing Sexy Back to the Freight Industry". The Next Web.
- ^ "Freightos Buys Air-Cargo Rival to Boost Online Marketplace". Wall Street Journal. 31 August 2016.
- ^ "Container freight rates soar on consumer goods boom, supply chain kinks". Reuters. 18 November 2020.
- ^ [1] Lightech's website
- ^ [2] Lightech's team as of 2010
- ^ "GE Lighting buys LED co Lightech for $20m - Globes". 20 July 2011.
- ^ VerticalNet Buys B2B Trading Partner Internet News, 8 March 2000.
- ^ "IBM Acquires Yet Another Business Intelligence ISV", Enterprise Systems, 17 May 2006
- ^ "Israelis and Palestinians Launch Web Start-Up", New York Times, 29 May 2008.
- ^ "The Entire D6 G.ho.st Demo", Wall Street Journal, D: All Things Digital conference 2008
- ^ G.ho.st Archived 28 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine at Demo 2008 conference
- ^ "Innovate Events - A Moments of Technology". Innovate Events.
- ^ "Milken Institute Global Conference 2009".
- ^ US Patent Office search
- ^ Schreiber, Zvi (February 2020). "k-root-n: An Efficient Algorithm for Avoiding Short Term Double-Spending Alongside Distributed Ledger Technologies such as Blockchain". Information. 11 (2): 90. doi:10.3390/info11020090.
- ^ "MONEY GOING OUT OF STYLE | Kirkus Reviews" – via www.kirkusreviews.com.
External links
- Books by Zvi Schreiber at Amazon.com
- Fizz official web site Archived 9 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- Freightos' web site