The history of modern business has shown that one smart, proven, and capable leader can have immense impact on a company, or even an entire industry. Our goal as a retained executive search firm is to quickly identify and attract that individual - or group of leaders – who has the leadership, strategic vision, requisite capabilities, influencing ability, and sense of urgency and ownership to outpace competitors and drive compelling results for our private equity and Fortune 500 clients.

In the 1990’s, in our earlier days as a firm, The Lancer Group focused our search services on technology-driven companies. We still have a good dose of technology in our firm’s DNA (as almost all companies of scale have had to leverage technology heavily to support and drive their growth), but today The Lancer Group is a diversified firm that has deep expertise in three very broad and transformative industries: Healthcare, Consumer, and Technology & Business Services.

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Cathy is a Partner with The Lancer Group and has a decade of experience placing top executives into private equity-backed and public companies. Since joining the firm she has been instrumental in rapidly scaling The Lancer Group’s Consumer and Digital Practices. Cathy advises private equity partners, CEOs and board leaders of portfolio companies on critical hiring and talent assessment decisions. 

Her search expertise includes CEO, Board, Operating Partner, CMO, and Digital Leadership placements. Cathy has significant experience and a continued deep interest in service delivery excellence (her business school coursework included an analysis of Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipients), and has helped shape the firm’s proprietary service delivery model, which is attuned to the unique needs of private equity clients and their portfolio companies. Prior to joining The Lancer Group, Cathy spent seven years with a larger executive search firm where she placed executives into Fortune 500 and private equity-backed companies.

Cathy brings to her search practice a deep understanding and appreciation of the organizational development demands and executive talent needs of a rapidly scaling company. She was a member of the pre-launch team at The New York Times Digital as well as the pre-launch team at FairMarket, Inc., an e-commerce technology company that went through an initial public offering and was later acquired by eBay. In this role she developed and executed high-profile online promotions on behalf of the company's media and consumer-focused clients: New Line Cinema, WWF, Major League Baseball, Playboy, Miller Brewing Company, and The New York Times. Cathy was the sixth employee hired by Bluebeam Software, a software solutions provider focused on the engineering and design industry. Bluebeam Software was acquired by European CAD software leader, Nemetchek. 

Cathy has worked with clients in the US, Canada, Mexico, Australia, UK, Germany, Sweden, Israel, and India. She holds an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and a BA in History from Dartmouth College.

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