LendingTree CEO Doug Lebda Dies in ATV Accident, Company Names Successor

LendingTree founder and CEO Doug Lebda in 2016.

LendingTree founder and CEO Doug Lebda unexpectedly died Oct. 12 in a North Carolina all-terrain vehicle accident. The board named COO Scott Peyree as the new CEO and vowed to honor Lebda’s vision. LendingTree, the online loan marketplace Lebda founded in 1996, announced Monday that its chairman and CEO, Doug Lebda, died Sunday at age … Read more