Zvi Schreiber

Zvi Schreiber was born in 1969 in London

Zvi Schreiber was born in London on 9 June 1969. His family moved to Israel when he was a child, and he attended Himelfarb High School in Jerusalem before the family returned to Britain. His brother Daniel Schreiber co-founded Lemonade.

He earned a BA in mathematics at the University of Cambridge. At Imperial College London he received an MSc in theoretical physics and a PhD in computer science. He also studied at Yeshivat Har Etzion.

He has lived in Israel since 1994, where he set up the software consultancy IsraTec. He founded Tradeum in 1999, which was sold to VerticalNet in 2000, and Unicorn in 2001, which IBM bought in 2006. In 2006 he founded G.ho.st with a joint Palestinian and Israeli team, and in 2011 he led Lightech until its sale to GE Lighting.

In 2012 he founded Freightos, a digital booking platform for air and ocean freight. He stepped down as CEO and later left its board in February 2026. He has also written books, including a book on money and a novel about the history of physics.