Disruptive insurtech player Lemonade appoints co-CEO

Lemonade, the artificial intelligence and behavioral economics-powered insurtech company, has appointed a new co-chief executive officer alongside Daniel Schreiber, as well as filled the vacant position of chief operating officer (COO).

Shai Wininger (pictured) will share the CEO position with Schreiber and relinquish his COO responsibilities with immediate effect.

Adina Eckstein, the company’s vice president of operations, will take over the position of COO.

Eckstein will continue to report to Wininger, who will continue to serve as president, secretary and a member of the company’s board of directors.

Eckstein has served as the company’s vice president of operations since November 2020. Prior to joining Lemonade in 2019, she served as COO of HSBC. Prior to that, from 2014 to 2016, she served as vice president of programme and portfolio at BBC Worldwide, where she led the development and operations of all consumer digital technology.

Wininger has served in various roles at Lemonade, including as its co-founder, president, secretary, treasurer, COO, chief technology officer, and a member of the company’s board, since its founding in June 2015. Prior to that, Wininger founded Fiverr in 2009, and as its CTO managed the engineering, design, and product departments, and continued to serve on its board of directors until 2019.

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