The Lancer Group Recruits CHRO for Liquidity Services

October 21, 2026 – La Jolla, CA-headquartered search firm The Lancer Group recently assisted in the recruitment of Karen Fascenda as chief human resources officer of NASDAQ-traded Liquidity Services. Chairman and CEO Bill Angrick highlighted Ms. Fascenda’s strong track record of aligning talent strategies with business growth. Ms. Fascenda, in turn, described Liquidity Services as a proven market leader with significant growth prospects and identified attracting, retaining, developing and motivating its employees as central to realizing those ambitions.

“That alignment is what makes the appointment so compelling,” Mr. Angrick said. “Karen understands that people strategy is not separate from growth strategy. It is one of the primary ways a company turns its market opportunity into sustained performance.” Ms. Fascenda will report directly to Mr. Angrick and succeeds Novelette Murray, who is retiring after 16 years with Liquidity Services, including six years as CHRO.

“We are delighted to welcome Karen to Liquidity Services,” said Mr. Angrick. “She brings a wealth of experience and a strong track record of aligning talent strategies with business growth, and we look forward to her leadership as we continue to drive a better future for organizations, individuals, and the planet by using our marketplace platform to unleash opportunity for sellers and buyers.”

Ms. Fascenda brings more than 20 years of experience developing human capital strategies for high-growth e-commerce, technology and business services companies. She previously served as chief people officer at Udemy, a U.S.-based education technology company, from January 2023 to May 2026. Before joining Udemy, Ms. Fascenda served as vice president, people, at GoPuff, a consumer goods and food delivery company, from June 2020 to January 2023. She previously spent more than four years at Comcast, a telecommunications conglomerate, where she held multiple positions, including vice president, human resources, from January 2018 to June 2020. Before that, Ms. Fascenda held various positions at eBay, Inc. from June 2006 to January 2016.

“I am excited to join Liquidity Services at such an important time in its growth journey,” said Ms. Fascenda. “The company is a proven market leader with tremendous growth prospects and I look forward to working with the leadership team to build on the Company’s strong foundation to achieve its ambitions by attracting, retaining, developing and motivating the talented employees that drive Liquidity Services’ success.”

“The Lancer Group was proud to support this search,” the search firm said. “Congratulations to Karen and the entire Liquidity Services team.”

Liquidity Services operates the world’s largest B2B e-commerce marketplace platform for surplus assets, connecting more than six million qualified buyers with 15,000 corporate and government sellers worldwide. Its platform has facilitated more than $15 billion in completed transactions, while helping organizations recover value from surplus assets, extend their useful life and reduce unnecessary waste.

With relationships at over 50 of the top 100 private equity firms, The Lancer Group provides a range of pre-deal private equity advisory services beyond traditional executive search. These include deal origination, diligence support and introductions to “backable” executives. The firm, which is privately held, operates from offices in Boston, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, and Sydney, Australia.

Scott Dunklee is a founder and managing partner of The Lancer Group. He has been instrumental in the firm’s development since 1998, overseeing over 350 C-suite searches predominantly for private equity-backed software companies. Mr. Dunklee has led The Lancer Group’s focus on software, and personally recruited out of more than 100 industry verticals as well as led the firm’s value creation services effort – linking C-suite executives with actionable deal ideas for the firm’s PE clients. Notably, one of those introductions led to a $200 million equity check “in” and over $800 million back to the PE fund.

Minitab Search

Lancer Group recently recruited Kevin Gordon as chief technology officer of Minitab. “We’re excited to welcome Kevin Gordon as chief technology officer at Minitab,” the company said. “This is an exciting step forward in the evolution of our technology strategy and will help accelerate innovation across our organization and solutions platform.”

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“Kevin brings extensive experience in platform transformation, cloud adoption, and AI-driven innovation,” Minitab said. “He has led global organizations through the modernization of their technology ecosystems and the unification of solutions platforms, achieving measurable results through the advanced use of data and AI.”

Mr. Gordon is a technology executive with extensive leadership experience across the life sciences, healthcare, consulting, and software sectors. He previously held chief technology officer and chief digital officer roles at Red Nucleus and Ori Biotech, respectively. Earlier in his career, Mr. Gordon was vice president of information technology at Tmunity Therapeutics and held a series of senior leadership positions with IQVIA and HighPoint Solutions, including vice president, technology principal; vice president, solutions development; managing director; senior director of application services; and director of program management.

Contributed by Scott A. Scanlon, Editor-in-Chief and Dale M. Zupsansky, Executive Editor – Hunt Scanlon Media

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