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FILE – Douglas “Doug” Lebda, chief executive officer of LendingTree Inc., pauses during a Bloomberg Television interview in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, March 8, 2016. (Photographer: Chris Goodney\/Bloomberg via Getty Images) <\/p>\n
LendingTree CEO and founder Doug Lebda died in an accident over the weekend, the company announced on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lebda, 55, died unexpectedly following an all-terrain vehicle accident on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What they’re saying:<\/p>\n
“Doug was a visionary leader whose relentless drive, innovation and passion transformed the financial services landscape, touching the lives of millions of consumers,” LendingTree\u2019s board of directors said in a statement. “His passion will continue to inspire us as we move forward together.”<\/p>\n
What’s next:<\/p>\n
Scott Peyree, LendingTree\u2019s chief operating officer and president, has been appointed CEO effective immediately.\u00a0<\/p>\n
ATV accident on family farm <\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
The accident took place on Lebda’s family farm in North Carolina, according to the Wall Street Journal.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n The backstory:<\/p>\n Lebda founded LendingTree in 1996.<\/p>\n The platform launched nationally in 1998 and has gone on to become a central online loaning marketplace that helps users find and compare loans for a variety of things.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Source: Information for this article was taken from The Associated Press and reporting by FOX Business. This story was reported from San Jose.\u00a0<\/p>\n U.S.<\/a>Business<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article FILE – Douglas “Doug” Lebda, chief executive officer of LendingTree Inc., pauses during a Bloomberg Television interview…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[558,115,135,137,136,628],"class_list":{"0":"post-3700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-tampa","11":"tag-tampa-headlines","12":"tag-tampa-news","13":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}