Liquidity Services, Inc. (NASDAQ:LQDT), a leading online auction
marketplace for wholesale surplus and salvage assets, is pleased to
announce the appointment of Cayce Roy to its executive management team
as Executive Vice President and President of its Asset Recovery
Division. Mr. Roy will be responsible for scaling the current leadership
position of LSI’s commercial asset recovery
business to drive its market expansion and capitalize on the substantial
growth opportunities within the $60 billion reverse supply chain market.
Mr. Roy brings to LSI over 20 years of experience managing sophisticated
and high performance e-commerce, business-to-business services and
logistics organizations. From 2000 to 2007 Mr. Roy led some of the
fastest growing and largest business units within Amazon.com, Inc. that
were responsible for driving Amazon’s rapid
growth into the world’s largest online
retailer. Most recently, Mr. Roy served as Vice President and General
Manager of Amazon Services, LLC, focused on providing e-commerce,
marketplace, fulfillment, and technology solutions to Fortune 1000 and
small business customers. During his tenure, the group became one of
Amazon’s largest and fastest growing units by
serving large traditional and online retailers and small and mid-size
merchants. Prior to this, Mr. Roy led Amazon’s
North American fulfillment operations through a critical period of
growth and development, delivering significant innovations that enabled
it to achieve the highest quality service levels at far greater
efficiencies and scale. In this role, Cayce was responsible for all
aspects of Amazon’s fulfillment operations
spanning 20 facilities, up to 10,000 employees at peak operation and
over ten million units shipped annually. During most of the 1990’s
Mr. Roy served with TNT Post Group in Europe overseeing global field
operations and business process improvement for TNT’s
Express Division, a global leader in distribution, logistics and parcel
delivery, with over $3 billion in revenue and over 1000 depots in 200
countries.
"Cayce is a fine addition to our management
team and brings a tremendous amount of knowledge, experience and
leadership that will be invaluable to supporting LSI’s
future growth. Throughout his career, he has achieved impressive results
by fostering a culture of operational excellence, team building and
continuous improvement for the customer, making him an ideal addition to
our executive management team,” stated Bill
Angrick, Chairman and CEO of LSI. "His proven
ability to deliver innovative solutions and achieve sustainable growth
will help drive the expansion of our Asset Recovery Division and online
auction marketplace, www.liquidation.com.”
"I am excited to join LSI and a team that has
built a strong foundation and is poised to scale the business to meet
the growing needs of our customers and to attain the truly remarkable
opportunity for growth and positive impact on a large and relatively
untouched element of the global supply chain.”
stated Mr. Roy. "Many of the opportunities
remind me of when I joined Amazon in early 2000 and I look forward to
building something remarkable for our customers, investors, and team
members.”
Mr. Roy earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering
from Lehigh University and has completed the financial management
executive education program at Stanford University’s
Graduate School of Business.
About Liquidity Services, Inc. (LQDT)
Liquidity Services, Inc. (NASDAQ:LQDT) and its subsidiaries enable
corporations and government agencies to market and sell surplus assets
and wholesale goods quickly and conveniently using online auction
marketplaces and value-added services. The company is based in
Washington, D.C. and has 685 employees. Additional information can be
found at: www.liquidityservicesinc.com.