Spike Lipkin
AI @ WTW | Co-founder & CEO @ Newfront,
Experience
Career
2026WTW
Chief AI Officer · 2026 – Present
2017Newfront
Co-founderNewfront CEO / Co-Founder · 2017 – Present
2014Opendoor.com
Early team, then head of finance · 2014 – 2016
2011The Blackstone Group
Analyst, Real Estate · New York, United States · 2011 – 2013
Bio
Spike Lipkin is the co-founder and CEO of Newfront, a modern commercial insurance brokerage and technology-driven insurance platform. Prior to founding Newfront in 2017, he was one of the first employees at Opendoor, helping grow the company from a five-person startup into a multibillion-dollar business, and earlier worked as an investor at Blackstone on the team that built Invitation Homes into the largest owner of single-family real estate in the United States.[2][6][9][15] In 2026, following WTW's acquisition of Newfront, he also took on the role of Chief AI Officer at WTW.[1][10][14]