Zvi Schreiber (, ; born 9 June 1969) is a British-Israeli businessman, executive, and author. He founded high-tech startups like Freightos, and G.ho.st, which at the time was considered the only high-tech startup with a joint Palestinian–Israeli team.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 In 2011 Schreiber was CEO of Lightech which he sold to GE Lighting."Lightech Announces Zvi Schreiber as CEO", Edison Report, 1 February 2011
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."The Nine Lives of Schroedinger's Cat", MSc thesis, Imperial College, January 1995. He is the brother of Daniel Schreiber, CEO and co-founder of Lemonade. Schreiber also studied at Yeshivat Har Etzion.
Freightos Schreiber is Founder and former CEO of startup logistics technology company Freightos (Nasdaq:CRGO), a digital booking platform for international air and ocean freight that he describes as the "equivalent of Booking.com for the shipment of goods rather than people". Under Schreiber's leadership Freightos also acquired WebCargo which is a booking platform for freight forwarders, airlines and ocean liners, and launched the daily Freightos Baltic Index (FBX) of containerized shipping prices..
In December 2025, Schreiber and the Company announced his departure as CEO effective 31 January 2026; he subsequently resigned from the company's board of directors effective 28 February 2026. On 29 June 2026, he filed a Schedule 13D reporting beneficial ownership of approximately 6.1% of Freightos' outstanding shares and stating that he believed the company should pursue changes to its strategy, management or board in order to enhance shareholder value.
Earlier business career
In 2011 Schreiber was CEO of Lightech Electronic Industries Ltd, Lightech's website based in Israel, where he had served as a director since 1996. His father David Schreiber, an experienced businessman and investor, chaired the board. Lightech's team as of 2010 Lightech was acquired by GE Lighting at the end of 2011, during Schreiber's tenure.
Schreiber founded the following companies: IsraTec Limited Tradeum Inc, acquired by VerticalNetVerticalNet Buys B2B Trading Partner Internet News, 8 March 2000. Unicorn Inc, acquired by IBM"IBM Acquires Yet Another Business Intelligence ISV", Enterprise Systems, 17 May 2006 Ghost Inc"Israelis and Palestinians Launch Web Start-Up", New York Times, 29 May 2008. (which traded as G.ho.st and has now closed operations). Freightos Limited
Schreiber has been invited to speak at software industry events"The Entire D6 G.ho.st Demo", Wall Street Journal, D: All Things Digital conference 2008G.ho.st at Demo 2008 conference and economic conferences.
He is a co-inventor of several patents and patent applications.US Patent Office search He is the author of a paper presenting a Distributed Ledger Technology (Blockchain) algorithm named k-root-n.
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. 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
External links
Fizz official web site Freightos' web site