Zvi Schreiber

British-Israeli executive, and author (born 1969)

Zvi Schreiber

צבי שרייבר

Personal details
Born|  (1969-06-09) 9 June 1969 (age 56)
London, England
Nationality| British-Israeli
Spouse| Rina Frei Schreiber
Residences|

* Barcelona, Spain
* Jerusalem, Israel

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

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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

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Schreiber is the CEO of startup logistics technology company Freightos, a digital booking platform for international air and ocean freight[6] that he describes as the "equivalent of Expedia/Orbitz/Kayak for the shipment of goods rather than people".[7] Under Schreiber's leadership Freightos also acquired WebCargo[8] which is a booking platform for freight forwarders, airlines and ocean liners, and launched the daily Freightos Baltic Index (FBX) of containerized shipping prices.[9]

In 2011 Schreiber was CEO of Lightech Electronic Industries Ltd,[10] based in Israel, where he had served as a director since 1996. His father David Schreiber, an experienced businessman and investor, chaired the board.[11] Lightech was acquired by GE Lighting at the end of 2011, during Schreiber's tenure.[12]

Schreiber founded the following companies:

* IsraTec Limited
* Tradeum Inc, acquired by VerticalNet[13]
* Unicorn Inc, acquired by IBM[14]
* Ghost Inc[15] (which traded as G.ho.st and has now closed operations).
* Freightos Limited

Schreiber has been invited to speak at software industry events[16][17][18] and economic conferences.[19]

He is a co-inventor of several patents and patent applications.[20] He is the author of a paper presenting a Distributed Ledger Technology (Blockchain) algorithm named k-root-n.[21]

## Published works

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* Money, Going out of style, a book which explains the fundamentals of money and explores modern issues of inequality and money printing without inflation.[22]
* 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

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1. ^ One team, two offices: Israel and Palestine Fortune Small Business, 10 March 2009.
2. ^ "Tech Startup Bridges Mideast Divide", BusinessWeek, 27 December 2007
3. ^ "Co-operation in the ether", The Economist, 23 July 2009
4. ^ "Lightech Announces Zvi Schreiber as CEO", Edison Report, 1 February 2011
5. ^ "The Nine Lives of Schroedinger's Cat", MSc thesis, Imperial College, January 1995.
6. ^ "About Us". Freightos.
7. ^ Abel, Shira (9 June 2013). "Freightos: Bringing Sexy Back to the Freight Industry". The Next Web.
8. ^ "Freightos Buys Air-Cargo Rival to Boost Online Marketplace". Wall Street Journal. 31 August 2016.
9. ^ "Container freight rates soar on consumer goods boom, supply chain kinks". Reuters. 18 November 2020.
10. ^ [1] Lightech's website
11. ^ [2] Lightech's team as of 2010
12. ^ "GE Lighting buys LED co Lightech for $20m - Globes". 20 July 2011.
13. ^ VerticalNet Buys B2B Trading Partner Internet News, 8 March 2000.
14. ^ "IBM Acquires Yet Another Business Intelligence ISV", Enterprise Systems, 17 May 2006
15. ^ "Israelis and Palestinians Launch Web Start-Up", New York Times, 29 May 2008.
16. ^ "The Entire D6 G.ho.st Demo", Wall Street Journal, D: All Things Digital conference 2008
17. ^ G.ho.st at Demo 2008 conference
18. ^ "Innovate Events - A Moments of Technology". Innovate Events.
19. ^ "Milken Institute Global Conference 2009".
20. ^ US Patent Office search
21. ^ 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.
22. ^ "MONEY GOING OUT OF STYLE | Kirkus Reviews" - via www.kirkusreviews.com.

## External links

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* Books by Zvi Schreiber at Amazon.com
* Fizz official web site Archived 9 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine
* Freightos' web site

Authority control databases

International|

* ISNI
* VIAF
* WorldCat

National|

* United States
* Israel

Other|

* Yale LUX