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Meet the 100 most influential people in European staffing. This list, compiled by Staffing Industry Analysts, includes those who have helped to shape the development of a market estimated to be worth (temp and perm) approximately ?113 billion in 2013.
Meet the 100 most influential people in European staffing. This list, compiled by Staffing Industry Analysts, includes those who have helped to shape the development of a market estimated to be worth (temp and perm) approximately ?113 billion in 2013. The list is in alphabetical order (by surname).
How do you measure influence?
Contributing to a company?s financial success is one way of measuring influence, but not the only one. Influence comes in a number of ways and forms and is often subjective. We?ve also included people who have played an important role ? albeit indirectly ? in influencing legislation that has affected the staffing market. Entrepreneurs, strategists, reformers, businesspeople ? the European Staffing 100 covers a gamut of accomplishments. It?s a multicultural melting pot that reflects the diversity of staffing markets in Europe.
The idea here is to give our audience a look at the leading lights of the industry today, people who have taken the staffing industry to the next level. We are not ranking these individuals, merely showcasing them as they have made a difference in some way ? big and small ? to the world of work.
Where do the Staffing 100 come from? Thirty three are British, 16 are French, 14 are Dutch, 11 are German and six each are Belgian and Italian. In addition five are American. The rest come from Ireland, Spain, Denmark, Hungary, Japan, Russia and Sweden. However, only 12 of the Staffing 100 are female, but that could change in future years.
Company Rankings
Any reference to a company?s rank worldwide or within a country or region is based on Staffing Industry Analysts? annual rankings.
Here are the rankings:
Martin Alonso
Spanish
Martin Alonso was appointed regional head of Northern Europe, Adecco, in August 2011. Alonso joined Adecco Spain in 1993 as branch manager. In 1998, after having held various operational positions, he was appointed as the finance manager for Adecco Spain and Portugal. From 2003 to 2005, he was the regional finance manager for Adecco Central Europe. As of 2007, he also took on the role of operational manager for Adecco Portugal. From 2009 to September 2011, he held the position of finance manager for Iberia and South America.
eZ Publish PDF export 1 of 27 Lord Michael Ashcroft
British/Belizean
Lord Michael Ashcroft, KCMG PC, is a successful businessman, philanthropist and former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party between 2005 and 2010. His many business interests include U.K. staffing firm Impellam, which had revenue of £1.2 billion in its last financial year. In 2010 his 57 percent holding, via the Lombard Trust, was transferred to his children and ?remoter issue.? According to The Sunday Times, his personal fortune is estimated to be more than ?1 billion, half of which he has pledged to donate to charity.
Daniel Augereau
French
Daniel Augereau is the chairman and CEO of Synergie, the fifth-largest staffing firm in France. He trained as a technical blue collar worker in the aeronautic industry and soon founded his first staffing firm, Europe Technique Assistance, in 1969. Ten years later, the company merged with another staffing firm, Sydergie, resulting in the launch of the Synergie brand.
François Béharel
French
François Béharel is president and CEO of Randstad for France. He joined VediorBis in 1999 as a regional director in the North of France. He had just become CEO of the Vedior group in France when he was appointed president and CEO of the newly combined Randstad Group France in 2009. In 2012, the supervisory board of Randstad appointed Béharel to the executive board for an initial four-year term.
Rosaleen Blair
Irish
Rosaleen Blair is chief executive officer of Alexander Mann Solutions. She has worked in the recruitment industry since 1990 and established Alexander Mann Solutions as an autonomous division of the Alexander Mann Group in 1996. Blair is widely credited as the pioneer of recruitment process outsourcing in Europe. In 2007, she led the management buyout backed by Graphite Capital and stayed with the firm after it was sold to New Mountain Capital for almost ?315 million in 2013.
eZ Publish PDF export 2 of 27 Georg Breucker
German
Georg Breucker is the CEO of Persona Service. Headquartered in Lüdenscheid, North Rhine Westphalia, the company is one of the five largest in the German staffing market. The company has a branch network of 185 locations in Germany and Switzerland with its first office outside of Germany opening in Basel in 2002. It was founded in 1967 by Brigitta and Werner Müller and was one of the first staffing agencies to operate in Germany. Persona Service places about 18,000 workers with about 10,000 clients annually, and had a turnover of ?662 million in 2012.
Luigi Brugnaro
Italian
Luigi Brugnaro is president of Italian staffing firm Umana Holdings. In 1986, at age 25, he founded Everap, a provider of commercial networks, which he still co-owns. In 1997, he founded Umana, which today has more than 700 employees and 114 branches. From 2009 to 2013, he was president of Confindustria Venice (Italian employers? federation). In October 2012 he was elected president of Assolavoro, the Italian National Association for Employment Agencies. In 2006, he bought S.S.D. Reyer Venezia Mestre, the oldest basketball sports club in Italy.
Jean-Marc Brun
French
Jean-Marc Brun is the CEO of the French staffing Groupe Adequat, a family-run company that he founded in 1987. He has grown the business to be among the top 10 staffing firms in the French market. In 1999, Brun founded the Domitis network, an innovative structure that enables member staffing companies to provide services nationwide to large accounts.
James Caan
British/Pakistani
James Caan made his fortune through the global, multi-million pound success of his companies Alexander Mann and Humana International. In 2004, he founded private equity firm Hamilton Bradshaw, which has more than 20 recruitment companies in its portfolio. He is best known for being on the hit BBC show Dragons? Den, and more recently, The Business Class on CNBC. Caan chairs the U.K. government?s Start Up Loans scheme, which provides funding and mentoring to budding entrepreneurs.
eZ Publish PDF export 3 of 27 Carl Camden
American
Carl Camden is president and CEO of Kelly Services, the fifth-largest staffing firm in the world and the 10th largest in Europe, although the company has reduced its European network in recent years. Having earned a doctorate by the age of 25, Camden has been a marketing executive for a bank holding company, co-president of an advertising agency and co-founder of a behavioural research group. He is also a tenured university professor. A recipient of numerous awards throughout his career, Camden is a big supporter of mandated health benefits for temporary workers. He is a member of The Business Roundtable and an executive committee member of the Committee for Economic Development.
Stefano Colli-Lanzi
Italian
Stefano Colli-Lanzi is chief executive officer of Gi Group, an Italian staffing firm that operates directly or through partnerships in more than 30 countries worldwide. He has extensive professional and managerial experience and established Gi Group in 1998. The company is ranked the eighth-largest staffing firm in Europe by Staffing Industry Analysts. ColliLanzi is also vice chairman of Assolavoro and professor of business economics at the Milan Catholic University.
Alistair Cox
British
Alistair Cox is chief executive of Hays, which had revenue of £3,697 million in its last financial year. He has been CEO since 2007. Prior to Hays, he was chief executive at Xansa plc from 2002. Cox is also a nonexecutive director of 3i Group plc. He is a chartered engineer and has an MBA from the Stanford Business School in California.
Nick Cox
British
Nick Cox became Hays? managing director for Continental Europe and Rest of the World (CERoW), in 2006, reporting directly to the CEO. As one of Hay?s three operating divisions, CERoW comprises 22 countries out of 32 in the Group. Cox joined Hays in 1983 working in the accountancy and finance/banking division as a recruitment consultant, progressing to regional director and then U.K. director. He was made managing director (U.K. and Europe) for Hays Information Technology in 1997. He was promoted to Hays U.K. board director in 2003, eZ Publish PDF export 4 of 27 responsible for seven specialisms, including HR, sales and marketing and contact centres.
Giles Daubeney
British
Giles Daubeney is COO of Robert Walters. He joined the group in 1988, after working in recruitment for Accountancy Selection Limited and Badenock & Clark Ltd. From 1990 to 1994, he was based in Amsterdam and responsible for the Robert Walters Dutch and Belgian operations. Daubeney was appointed to his current role in 1999, and was appointed to the board in 2000.
Alexis de Bretteville
French
Alexis de Bretteville is Hudson?s CEO of Europe, responsible for the management and operational leadership of the company?s European business. Prior to joining Hudson in 2013, de Bretteville was with Michael Page for more than 20 years, serving most recently as the managing director of the company?s Americas region and as a member of its global executive board. After spending four years helping to grow the company?s French operations into the market leader, he served as managing director of Michael Page Spain, Portugal and South America, and then as regional managing director of Central and Northern Europe.
Dominik de Daniel
German
Dominik de Daniel joined the Adecco Group as CFO in 2006, following Adecco?s acquisition of DIS Deutscher Industrie Service AG. De Daniel was a bank trainee at Deutsche Bank AG before completing vocational studies in banking and business administration at the Bankakademie. Starting in 1993, he worked for Deutsche Bank in Germany in various roles, including stock analyst. De Daniel joined DIS AG in 2000, and was appointed to the executive board in 2001 with responsibility for investor relations, M&A and strategic controlling. He became CFO in 2002.
Patrick De Maeseneire
Belgian
Patrick De Maeseneire rejoined the Adecco Group as CEO in 2009. He had held leading eZ Publish PDF export 5 of 27 positions within the Adecco Group between 1998 and 2002, starting as country manager for the Benelux region before leading the Adecco Group?s worldwide professional staffing business from New York. De Maeseneire served as CEO of Barry Callebaut from 2002 to 2009 and in 2007, he was granted the title of Baron by King Albert II of Belgium. From 1980 to 1997, De Maeseneire held executive positions at Sun International and Apple Computer, as well as senior positions at Wang in Belgium and Arthur Andersen Consulting.
Alain Dehaze
French
Alain Dehaze joined the Adecco Group in 2009 as regional head of Northern Europe and was appointed regional head of France in 2011. From 1987 until 2000, Dehaze held a number of senior positions at Henkel and ISS. In 2000, he became managing director of Creyf?s Interim in Belgium (now Start People). From 2002 to 2005, he was CEO of Solvus. Following the acquisition of Solvus by USG People in 2005, he became the COO of USG People. From September 2007 until joining Adecco, he was CEO of the Humares. Dehaze is VP of the board of the Eurociett, the European Confederation of Private Employment Agencies, and is also on the board of the Ciett, the International Confederation of Private Employment Agencies.
Andreas Dinges
German
Andreas Dinges became the regional head of the Adecco Group?s Germany and Austria division in 2009 and is an executive committee member. He joined Adecco in 2006 as CEO of DIS Deutscher Industrie Service AG. From 2002 to 2006, he was the spokesman of the executive board of 3M ESPE AG. He started his career at 3M Company in 1988. Dinges is a commercial judge at the district court in Dusseldorf, Germany. He is a member of the board of the Bundesarbeitgeberverband der Personaldienstleister (BAP), Germany?s national staffing association.
Yvon Drouet
French
Yvon Drouet is the CFO of Synergie, the fifth-largest staffing firm in France and one of the largest staffing firms in Europe. Publicly listed on NYSE Euronext Paris, the company is expanding rapidly outside its home market.
Gary Elden
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Gary Elden has been CEO of SThree since January 2013 after serving as its deputy CEO since May 2012. Prior to that, Elden was SThree?s chief strategy officer. He has held a number of senior positions, including that of founding managing director of Huxley Associates. As chief strategy officer, he was responsible for the expansion of the group?s international operations and non-ICT disciplines. Last year, the company had revenue of £634 million.
Albert Ellis
British
Albert Ellis is CEO of the Harvey Nash Group, which had revenue of nearly £700 million in its most recent fiscal year. Ellis was originally appointed to the board in 2000 as chief financial officer and then CEO in 2005. In 1998 he joined Harvey Nash from Hays plc. Prior to that he worked in the accounting and auditing profession after qualifying as a chartered accountant. He is also on the board of Asia House and is an advisor at London City University?s Cass Business School masters in information leadership course.
Volker Enkerts
German
Volker Enkerts is president of BAP, Germany?s national staffing association. Since 1989, he has owned and operated Hamburg-based FLEX-TIME GmbH. In 1992, Enkerts became a board member of the BZA ? Bundesverband Zeitarbeit Personal Dienstleistungen (German Association of Private Employment) ? and then president in 2004. In 2010/2011, BZA merged with AMP ? Arbeitgeberverband Mittelständischer Personaldienstleister (Employers? Association of Medium-Sized Personnel Services) ? to form BAP. He was elected as president after the merger. Enkerts has also been a board member of the BDA, Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbände (Confederation of German Employers? Associations), since 1998.
Eckard Gatzke
German
Eckard Gatzke has served as CEO of Randstad Germany since 2003. He is responsible for the sales organisation, marketing and communications and human resources. In addition, he contributes as country general manager for Tempo-Team, Randstad Professionals and GULP (sister companies). Under his leadership, Randstad Germany became the leading staffing firm in Germany. Prior to joining Randstad, Gatzke distinguished himself as an expert in the restructuring and reorganisation of leading companies in the logistics industry in Germany and Europe. His previous employers included Kuehne & Nagel, TNT, BahnTrans and Rhenus.
eZ Publish PDF export 7 of 27 Leen Geirnaerdt
Belgian
Leen Geirnaerdt is the CFO of the Dutch group USG People. She has held various senior management positions within the group, including that of general manager of USG People Belgium?s shared service centre transactions and support. She previously acted as corporate controller at Solvus N.V. until the firm was acquired by USG People.
Frits Goldschmeding
Dutch
Frits Goldschmeding is the founder of Randstad and the former president and CEO of Randstad Holding nv. Under his leadership, Randstad grew into one of the world?s largest temporary employment organisations. In 1999, he became a member of the supervisory board of the Randstad Group. In March 2011 he stepped down, but as the major shareholder, he still keeps an eye on his company.
Roland Gomez
French
Roland Gomez is the managing director of the French staffing group Proman, which was founded in 1990. Proman is the seventh-largest staffing firm in France and the largest privately held staffing firm operating in the French market. Prior to this, Gomez trained as an industrial steelworker, and later worked as a branch manager for an engineering services firm.
Philip Gracco
Belgian
Philip Gracco is the co-founder and CEO of Accent Jobs, a Belgian staffing group. He negotiated the entry of the private equity firm Gimv into the group?s capital in 2006 (which exited in 2012), an investment that boosted Accent?s growth and profitability.
Darryl Green
American eZ Publish PDF export 8 of 27 Named ManpowerGroup?s first COO in May 2014, Darryl Green leads ManpowerGroup?s four regions ? Americas, Asia Pacific Middle East, Northern and Southern Europe. He had been president and executive VP, Asia Pacific Middle East and Northern Europe. Green joined the company in 2007 as executive VP, leading the Asia Pacific Region. Green also led the development of ManpowerGroup?s Borderless Talent Solutions. Green previously served as CEO for several mobile/data communications companies, including Tata Teleservices, J-Phone (Vodafone Japan) and Global Crossing Japan. Green speaks fluent Japanese and is a director of the Japan Staffing Service Association (JASSA).
Kevin Green
British
Kevin Green is chief executive of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC), the professional body for the U.K.?s £26.5 billion recruitment industry. Green joined the REC in 2008, having been HR director at Royal Mail where he was responsible for all peoplerelated issues for the business with its 165,000 employees. The REC is committed to raising recruitment standards and highlighting excellence throughout the industry. It represents 3,506 corporate members and 4,744 individual members within the Institute of Recruitment Professionals (IRP), all of whom must abide by a code of professional practice.
Claude Guedj
French
Claude Guedj has been chairman and CEO of Groupe Crit since 2002. He founded the company in 1962 and was first appointed to the board in 1969. Under Guedj?s management, Groupe Crit rose to be among the five largest staffing firms in France and top 25 globally.
Adrian Gunn
British
Adrian Gunn is CEO of Matchtech Group plc. He was appointed to the board in 2004 as business development director. Gunn became CEO shortly after the group floated on AIM. He joined Matchtech as a recruitment consultant in 1988. Gunn is a fellow of the Institute of Recruitment Professionals and is a member of the CBI?s Employment and Skills Board.
Chris Hartman
American eZ Publish PDF export 9 of 27 Chris Hartman is president of Allegis Global Solutions (AGS). He has more than 20 years? experience with the Allegis Group family, and is responsible for growing the AGS footprint throughout the globe. In his previous role as global development officer for Allegis Group, Hartman was responsible for executing and establishing dominant offerings outside of North America. Before moving over to his global roles, he was a founding member and president of Allegis Group Services. Under his direction, AGS grew into one of the largest MSP and RPO providers.
Nigel Heap
British
Nigel Heap is managing director of Hays U.K. & Ireland and chairman of Hays Asia Pacific. Heap has been with the company since 1988. In 1997, he was appointed managing director of Hays Australia, plus New Zealand in 1999, Hong Kong and China in 2006, Japan and Singapore in 2007 and Malaysia in 2012. In 2006, Heap was appointed managing director of Asia Pacific and joined the group management board.
Anne Heraty
Irish
Anne Heraty is the co-founder, major stakeholder and CEO of CPL Resources plc. In 1989, Heraty and Keith O?Malley founded Computer Placement Ltd., which placed people at IT companies setting up businesses in Ireland. In 1992, she became sole shareholder. In 1996, Heraty?s husband, Paul Carrol, joined the group and in 1999 they took CPL to the Irish and London stock markets, making Heraty the first female CEO of an Irish company floated on the stock exchange. In 2006, she won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award for Ireland.
Ingrid Hofmann
German
Ingrid Hofmann is CEO and founder of I.K. Hofmann (also known as Hofmann Personal). Hofmann is a member of the board of BAP, the German national staffing association, and also belongs to the Confederation of German Employers? Associations (BDA). I.K. Hofmann was awarded the Ludwig Erhard Prize for business excellence in 2010 and holds the Great Place to Work Gold Trust Champion Award for being named a Great Place to Work seven times in a row. Founded in 1985, I.K. Hofmann is one of the largest staffing agencies in Europe and Germany.
Andrew Hogarth
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Andrew Hogarth is CEO of Staffline, which had revenue of £416 million in its latest financial year. He has been with the company since 2002. ISIS funded the buy in/management buyout of the firm in 2000 and introduced Hogarth as finance director. Hogarth helped float the firm on AIM in 2004 and has been chief executive since 2003. He is a certified neuro-linguistic programming coach.
Henrik Höjsgaard
Danish
Henrik Höjsgaard has been CEO and president at Proffice AB since January 2014. Prior to joining Scandinavia?s third-largest staffing firm, he had been CEO of Postnord Logistics since 2007. Höjsgaard has a long international career, including as a ship broker in Copenhagen, Oslo, London and Hong Kong. He has also been CEO of Keolis Nordic AB and has had various managerial roles in Sweden and Denmark, including as CEO of TNT International Express AB.
Ron Icke
Dutch
Ron Icke is chairman of the supervisory boards of Orizon GmbH, the 10th-largest staffing company in Germany, and DPA, a Dutch secondment provider. Icke entered the staffing industry in 1995, when he joined Goudsmit (part of USG People) as CEO. In 2006, he was appointed as CEO and chairman of the Board in USG People, a role he fulfilled until 2009. Icke qualified as a chartered accountant at PwC before becoming CFO of investment company Wolter Schaberg, and then Euronext-quoted Goudsmit, where he started to develop his expertise in both acquisitions and temporary staffing.
Steve Ingham
British
Steve Ingham is chief executive of PageGroup, the 12th-largest staffing firm in Europe. He joined Michael Page (as the company was then called) in 1987 as a consultant and was promoted to operating director in 1990 and appointed to the board as executive director of U.K. operations in 2001. He became managing director of U.K. operations in 2005 and was appointed chief executive in 2006.
Nathalie Jaoui
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Nathalie Jaoui became deputy CEO and head of temporary employment and recruitment at Groupe Crit in 2002. Jaoui oversees the ongoing series of acquisitions that is driving Groupe Crit?s growth in the U.S. market. She joined in 1989, served as a director of the company since 1992 and later served as the CFO. Jaoui has also been a director of the French staffing association Prism?emploi since 2003
Jeffrey A. Joerres
American
Jeffrey A. Joerres became executive chairman of ManpowerGroup in May 2014 after serving as CEO for 15 years. He joined the organisation in 1993 as VP of marketing and senior VP of European operations and global account management. He was named CEO in 1999 and chairman in 2001. ManpowerGroup is the third-largest staffing firm in the world as well as Europe. Joerres was Corporate Responsibility magazine?s inaugural ?Lifetime Achievement Award? winner in 2011 and was asked to co-chair the B20 Task Force on Employment in 2012. Joerres is the chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago board of directors, serves on the boards of several companies and committees.
Johnathan Johnson
British
Johnathan Johnson is the chief executive officer of Fircroft. Johnson joined Fircroft in 1997 as a consultant and was promoted to operations director for the IT, commercial and rail sectors in 2001. Since taking the helm in 2005 from his father and company founder John Johnson, he has overseen the global expansion of the company. Fircroft now operates in more than 60 countries and reported an annual turnover of £898 million in 2013. Johnson was awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2011 in the globalisation category.
James Kelly
British
James Kelly joined technology recruitment specialist Lorien Resourcing as CEO in August 2008. He has successfully guided Lorien through a period of rapid growth during which revenues increased from £147 million to £296 million and both contract and permanent placement numbers have doubled. With Lorien, Kelly has sold and delivered large-scale managed service and recruitment process outsource solutions for the likes of Fujitsu, Monitise, Phoenix and KPMG. Lorien currently has more than 200 staff members.
eZ Publish PDF export 12 of 27 Stefan Kölbl
German
Stefan Kölbl is chairman of the management board for German firm Dekra SE, which includes Dekra Personnel, a temporary work and training & education division of the company that posted revenue of ?390.3 million in 2013. Kölbl joined Dekra in 2000 after working as a management consultant. He took on the chairman role in 2010. In 2003, Kölbl was appointed managing director of the economically ailing Dekra Akademie. Within only two years, Kölbl succeeded in turning around what is today?s largest private training service provider in Germany. He was then assigned to Dekra?s automotive services unit in 2006.
Hans Leentjes
Dutch
Hans Leentjes has been president, Northern Europe and executive VP at ManpowerGroup since 2011. When he joined ManpowerGroup as manager of the Netherlands in 2005, he brought 15 years of employment services experience gained at Randstad. In 2008, he successfully finalized the acquisition of Vitae, a specialty engineering and finance firm with revenues in excess of ?74 million.
Olivier Lemaitre
French
Olivier Lemaitre is executive board director Europe at PageGroup, in charge of the group?s operations in continental Europe. He launched Michael Page Brazil in 1999 and returned to Europe in 2002 to lead the Frankfurt office. He was later appointed as managing director of Michael Page in Germany and Switzerland and launched the Austrian business.
Leo Lindelauf
Dutch
Leo Lindelauf joined Randstad in 1979 as district manager and has held various management roles, such as becoming managing director operations for Randstad Europe in 1994 and general manager of Randstad Netherlands in 1999. In 2001 he was appointed to the executive board and is now responsible for the Randstad and Tempo-Team brands in the Netherlands, Nordics, Eastern Europe, Greece and Turkey.
eZ Publish PDF export 13 of 27 Ged Mason
British
Ged Mason is CEO of Morson, a U.K.-based technical staffing firm. He joined the company in 1986 and took over as managing director in 1999 from his father, Gerry Mason (see separate entry), with backing from Barclays Private Equity. The company was floated on AIM in 2006 and taken private again in 2012.
Gerry Mason
British
Gerry Mason trained as a design engineer at Salford Technical College in the mid-1950s before emigrating to Toronto, Canada, where he studied mechanical engineering at the Ryson Institute for Technology. He then founded Morson in 1969, which he led until turning control over to his son, Ged Mason, in 1999 (see separate entry). He continues to serve as nonexecutive director on the board.
Hitoshi Motohara
Japanese
Hitoshi Motohara is the senior corporate executive officer of Recruit Holdings Co. Ltd, the largest staffing company in Japan and fifth-largest in the world. Responsible for expanding Recruit?s business internationally, including within Europe, Motohara led Recruit?s purchase of international recruiter Advantage Resourcing and global job site Indeed in 2012. Motohara joined Recruit in 1983 as a sales and marketing associate. In 2003, he became CEO of Recruit Staffing and in 2008, became CEO of Staff Services, the No. 1 staffing firm in Japan, following Recruit?s acquisition of the company. He is a past president of Japan Staffing Services Association (JASSA).
Alex Mulder
Dutch
Alex Mulder has been a supervisory board member of USG People NV since 2006. As the founder of Unique Uitzendbureau in 1972, he is also effectively the founder of USG People, of which he was chairman and chief executive officer up to 2006. It was during his tenure that the acquisition of Belgian staffing group Solvus was successfully completed.
eZ Publish PDF export 14 of 27 Annemarie Muntz
Dutch
Annemarie Muntz is president of Ciett, the International Confederation of Private Employment Services, and Eurociett, the European Confederation of Private Employment Agencies. She is an influential lobbyist in the European Union, helping to create a legal environment in which private employment agencies are able to prove their important role in a functioning labour market; she has been tireless in her work on the Agency Work Directive.
Herwig Muyldermans
Belgian
Herwig Muyldermans is the general director of the Belgian staffing association, Federgon. He plays a central role in negotiating collective agreements on behalf of the Belgian staffing industry. Before joining the association in 1990, he occupied senior positions at the Belgian association representing the clothing industry.
Jean-Philippe Papin
French
Jean-Philippe Papin is the CEO of the French staffing firm Leader Intérim. The company was founded in 1992 and claims an average annual growth of 35 percent since its inception. Leader Intérim is among the top 15 staffing firms in France and provides temporary workers, permanent recruitment services and training.
Károly Pataki
Hungarian
Károly Pataki became CEO of Trenkwalder International AG in December 2013 after serving as chief sales officer. Prior to Trenkwalder, Pataki was deputy general manager of Dunapack Ltd. and CFO and later CEO of Prinzhorn Holding. Since 2013, he has been a member of the Senate of Economy in Austria. Trenkwalder is the largest staffing provider in Austria and a market leader in Hungary and in the Black Sea region. The company has approximately 70,000 employees and recorded turnover of ?1 billion in 2012. Trenkwalder has 300 branches in Central and Eastern Europe.
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Mariette Patijn is an official at FNV Bondgenoten, the largest union in the Netherlands, and a member of the union?s executive committee since May 2013. She represents the interests of temporary workers. Since 1995 she contributed substantially to the creation of collective labour agreements for temporary workers, including the one concluded last year, with equal pay from day one of an assignment.
Denis Pennel
Belgian
Denis Pennel was appointed managing director of Ciett, the International Confederation of Private Employment Agencies, in April 2005. Pennel promotes the interests of the staffing industry before international institutions, such as the European Union, the International Labour Organisation, the World Bank or the OECD. Prior to his appointment, he served as corporate communications director for Manpower France (1998-2005). He is best known for his advocacy work during the writing phase of the Agency Work Directive as well as his efforts to ensure the optimal transposition of the directive across Europe.
François Pinte
French
François Pinte is general secretary of the French group Synergie, the fifth-largest staffing firm in France. Pinte holds a number of positions at key institutions: president of the French staffing industry social fund FASTT; president of the audit committee of Prism?emploi, the French national staffing association; and elected member of the council of the Pays de Loire region.
Jonas Prising
Swedish
Jonas Prising took the helm of ManpowerGroup Inc. in May 2014. Prior to that, Prising oversaw all aspects of ManpowerGroup?s ?9 billion business in North, Central and South America and Southern Europe. Prising joined ManpowerGroup in 1999 and previously served as managing director of Manpower Italy; director of Manpower Global Accounts ? Europe, Middle East and Africa; and president, North America. Before joining the company, Prising worked for Electrolux, a Swedish multinational. Prising also serves on the board of directors for Junior Achievement Worldwide and speaks five languages: English, French, German, Swedish and Italian.
eZ Publish PDF export 16 of 27 Steven Quinn
Irish
Steven Quinn was appointed CEO, Americas, of SThree in December 2013, after serving as the chief operating officer since 2012. Prior to that, he was group managing director of SThree?s brands across the U.K., Ireland, Benelux and the Middle East. Quinn came to the company from the Real Staffing Group (formerly Real IT) in 2010, where he was managing director. He is a lawyer by training.
Alessandro Ramazza
Italian
Alessandro Ramazza is president of Obiettivo Lavoro, the fifth-largest Italian staffing firm. Before becoming president in 2005, he was director of the human resources groups CMC of Ravenna and then Rodano consortium of Reggio Emilia. Obiettivo Lavoro has more than 800 employees and 172 branches offices (160 in Italy and 12 in other parts of Europe and South America). Ramazza has a degree in business economics and a master?s from the London Business School.
Rosario Rasizza
Italian
Rosario Rasizza is CEO of Openjobmetis, which he launched (as Openjob) in 2000 to take advantage of the rapidly developing staffing market and was rebranded in 2012 following the acquisition of Metis. In 2003, he embarked on a rapid expansion scheme through a series of acquisitions. Rasizza was awarded the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 2008 and was nominated president of Assosomm, an association representing employment agencies in Italy, in 2013. He founded Globalservice in the early 1990s and in 1997, with the introduction of new legislation regulating temporary agencies in Italy, Rasizza opened the first temporary staffing agency in Varese.
Sir Alec Reed
British
Sir Alec Reed, CBE, FCMA, founded REED in 1960. In 1972, he founded the Reed Business School and in 1995, he launched reed.co.uk, one of the leading job sites in the U.K. He also has launched various charities, including Womankind Worldwide, Ethiopiaid and the Big Give. He is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and was awarded the institute?s outstanding contribution to business performance award. He has written several books eZ Publish PDF export 17 of 27 and was knighted in 2011 for services to business and charity. Reed is the sixth-largest staffing firm in the U.K. and was floated in 1971.
James Reed
British
James Reed is the chairman of the REED group of companies, which was founded by James?s father, Sir Alec Reed (see separate entry), in 1960. The company has 3,000 permanent employees working across 417 business units in 158 locations worldwide. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and was formerly an associate of the Prime Minister?s Delivery Unit and a member of the Institute for Public Policy Research?s business-led taskforce on race equality and diversity in the private sector. Reed is co-author of the award-winning and best-selling book Put Your Mindset to Work.
Julia Robertson
British
Julia Robertson was appointed CEO of the Impellam Group in April 2013. She joined Carlisle in 2000 following the acquisition of Tate. Following the 2008 Impellam merger, she was appointed as the divisional CEO of Impellam?s U.K. staffing businesses. Prior to Impellam/Carlisle, Robertson was chief executive of the Institute of Employment Consultants (now known as the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, a U.K. confederation of staffing firms), the professional body for the U.K. recruitment industry, and founded her own recruitment business, which was sold to Carlisle alongside Tate. Robertson is also a non-executive director, and sits on the board of trustees for Trinity Hospice.
Christian Roulleau
French
Christian Roulleau is the founder and CEO of the French facility management group Samsic, which provides staffing services with the Samsic Emploi brand. Samsic Emploi features among the top 10 largest staffing firms in France, and is one of the largest privately owned firms in the market. Roulleau previously held a wide range of positions within the GSF group operating in the cleaning services industry, and founded Samsic in 1986.
Alain Roumilhac
French eZ Publish PDF export 18 of 27 Alain Roumilhac is ManpowerGroup?s president of Southern Europe, the largest region for the business in terms of revenue. Previously, he served as president of Experis and ManpowerGroup Solutions in France as well as segment leader for Experis Southern Europe. Before he joined ManpowerGroup, Roumilhac was CEO of the French IT Management services firm Osiatis, and previously spent 20 years in various positions in IBM, the latest being vice president of business lines, IBM Global Services West Region.
François Roux
French
François Roux has been general manager of the French national staffing association (Prism?emploi) since 2001. In this role, he represents the interests of the staffing industry, lobbying government and negotiating with social partners and French institutions. In 2013, Roux led the talks with trade unions that resulted in the creation of a form of indefinite duration contract for temporary agency workers.
Steve Russell
British
Steve Russell is group chief executive of Bond International Software, a provider of specialist staffing software for recruitment agencies worldwide. During Russell?s career in software development, he has held a number of senior management positions, including group managing director of Scan Data International plc. Russell formed the company, which then acquired a controlling interest in Bond Associates Ltd. in 1988. On the acquisition of Bond Associates Inc., he became the group?s chief executive, and following a successful flotation on AIM, became CEO.
Enrique Sanchez
Spanish
Enrique Sanchez has been Adecco?s regional head of Iberia and South America since October 2009. Sanchez joined Adecco Spain in 1993 as branch manager. In 1995, he became manager of the central region. Two years later, he was appointed operations manager, and in 2001 president and general manager of Adecco Spain and Portugal. From 2003 to 2005, Sanchez was general manager for Spain and Portugal, and was also responsible for the development of the company in Latin America and Eastern Europe. In 2005, he returned to Spain, becoming responsible for Adecco Group Iberia.
Matthew Sanders
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Matthew Sanders is CEO and founder of de Poel, a vendor-neutral managed service provider in the U.K. He is also a director of Paraplus, an umbrella company. Sanders founded de Poel 10 years ago with Michael Campbell. Prior to that, he worked for Manpower UK and Corporate Services Group plc (now Impellam).
Alan Savage
British
Alan Savage established the Orion Group in 1987. As a mechanical technician he worked his way through the ranks of engineering. Following a stint as a sales and marketing consultant, he formed the Orion Group to provide personnel to the booming engineering sector. Savage is a former chairman of Inverness Caledonian Thistle Football Club and a Manchester United supporter. Based in Inverness, Orion Group employs 425 staff across its 44 worldwide offices and manages more than 4,000 contractors annually throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific.
Helga Schwitzer
German
Helga Schwitzer is the executive board member of the IG Metall Union and is responsible for collective bargaining. Schwitzer successfully negotiated a new collective agreement for the metal and electrical industry and agreed to a 15 percent wage increase for agency workers in the sector, an agreement that led to collective bargaining agreements in other industries. From 1985 to 2007, Schwitzer was the union secretary of IG Metall district headquarters of Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt. She is also an honorary judge at the Federal Labour court in Erfurt and is a member of the SPD.
Robert Scott
British
Robert Scott is group managing director of Rullion, which had revenue of £278 million in its latest reported year. The company operates in the engineering, IT, construction, commercial and industrial sectors and has 260 staff across 25 offices nationwide.
Peter Searle
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Peter Searle rejoined Adecco in October 2009 as regional head of U.K. and Ireland. He first joined the Adecco Group with its 1999 acquisition of The Delphi Group, of which he was group managing director. Searle was responsible for Adecco?s Ajilon offices in Europe and APAC. In 2005, he became CEO of Adecco UK. From 2006, he was CEO of Spring Group, which was acquired by Adecco in 2009. Peter Searle holds an honours degree in business and a post- graduate diploma in marketing.
Jai Shekhawat
American
Jai Shekhawat is founder and CEO of vendor management system provider Fieldglass. Under his leadership, the Fieldglass platform grew to be used in 100 countries, available in multiple languages and currencies and has a spend management of more than $25 billion annually. The company was acquired by SAP in 2014 for a reported sum of nearly $1 billion. He was Ernst & Young?s 2012 Midwest ?Entrepreneur of the Year? as well as the 2012 recipient of Staffing Industry Analysts? Peter Yessne Staffing Leadership Award (formerly called the Peter Yessne Innovator Award) for his work in pioneering the VMS space.
Phil Sheridan
British
Phil Sheridan is managing director, U.K. and South America, with Robert Half International Inc. He trained with Ernst & Young before he joined Robert Half in 1996, where he focused on accounting and finance recruitment, progressing to regional director in 2000 and managing director in 2005. He assumed responsibility for the South American operations last year. His background in finance has been instrumental in developing and executing strategy, helping the business successfully navigate the challenges of recent years.
Natalia Shuman
Russian/American
Natalia Shuman is senior VP and general manager, EMEA and APAC regions, Kelly Services Inc. Shuman also serves as COO of Kelly?s joint venture, TS Kelly Workforce Solutions, in North Asia. She joined Kelly in 1997 and was responsible for successfully launching Kelly?s recruitment business in the Moscow market and later moved to New York to launch Kelly?s Wall Street office. Since 2008, Shuman has been managing global account teams and developing global programmes for Kelly. Over the last two years, she has also served as vice president of Global Solutions.
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German
Dr. Christian Speidel is chairman and CEO of 7S Group GmbH, the Germany-based firm ranks on Staffing Industry Analysts? list of largest global staffing firms. Speidel has also served as managing director of 7S Group since 1997. Prior to 7S, Speidel was chairman at Röder Zeltsysteme und Service AG from 1994 to 1996, and he was managing director of Wilh. Ispert AG & Co. KG from 1987 to 1994. Speidel holds a doctorate from the University of Freiburg.
Margriet Spijker
Dutch
Margriet Spijker is general manager of Timing, the seventh-largest staffing company in the Netherlands and part of the ADG Group. She joined Timing in 1988 as a consultant, followed by various management positions, up to deputy manager, a role in which she worked alongside Annemarie Laan van Dongen, who retired as general manager in January 2012 after 18 years.
Ann Swain
British
Ann Swain is chief executive officer of the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo) and, before that, its predecessor, ATSCo. In 1988, she founded Learning Curve, a specialist recruitment training company that was acquired by the Delphi Group in 1997. With more than 30 years? experience in the recruitment sector, Swain is an authority in the industry, an international speaker, and a passionate advocate for the U.K. staffing sector. She is also the author of the Professional Recruiter?s Handbook.
Gilles Tanneur
French
Gilles Tanneur is COO of Groupe Crit; he also manages the North American operations of the group, including the recently acquired U.S. firms that are driving the group?s international growth. Prior to joining Groupe Crit in 2010, Tanneur was president and CEO of the recruitment firm, Brill Street + Company.
Maurizio Uboldi
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Maurizio Uboldi is international global head for Gi Group. Since January 2007, Uboldi has been responsible for the company?s international expansion programme. The company operates directly or through partnerships in more than 30 countries worldwide. In 1997, Uboldi co-founded Cronos Spa (Temporary Employment) and was member of the board from 1999 until 2002. He also has extensive experience with labour markets in China and Eastern Europe.
Phillip Ullmann
British
Phillip Ullmann is chief executive officer of the Cordant Group, which had revenue of £490 million in its latest reported year. The company provides security, cleaning and recruitment services, was originally founded in 1959 by Jack Ullman (as Securiplan) and continues to be owned and run by the Ullmann family.
Wessel van Alphen
Dutch
Wessel van Alphen is founder (1986) and owner of the Dutch company IT-Staffing, one of the largest IT specialist firms in the European staffing market. Following the launch in 1978 of his first company providing the services of self-employed IT specialists to clients, van Alphen was involved in the creation of numerous other businesses, ranging from staffing brands to Internet radios. He passed the daily management of the company to his son, Wessel van Alphen Jr., in December 2013.
Jan Arie van Barneveld
Dutch
Jan Arie van Barneveld is CEO of Brunel International nv, a Dutch firm with global operations focusing on the recruitment of professionals in sectors such as IT, engineering, legal and finance. Van Barneveld succeeded founder and major shareholder Jan Brand in 2000, which makes him one of the longest-sitting CEOs in the Dutch staffing market.
Robert Jan van de Kraats
Dutch eZ Publish PDF export 23 of 27 Robert Jan van de Kraats became Randstad Holding nv?s CFO in 2001 and vice chairman of the executive board in 2006. He is responsible for group finance and accounting, tax, treasury, business risk and audit, IT and investor relations. He is also responsible for Randstad?s operations in India and the Yacht business. A qualified chartered accountant, van de Kraats began his career with one of the big four accountancy firms and from 1989 until joining Randstad, he held various senior finance positions in the technology and credit insurance sectors. Between 2004 and November 2013, van de Kraats was supervisory board member of two listed Dutch companies.
Jacques van den Broek
Dutch
Jacques van den Broek is CEO and chairman at Randstad Holding nv, the second-largest staffing firm in Europe and the world. He joined the company in 1988 and was appointed to the executive board of Randstad Holding in January 2004. Since that time, he has been responsible for a significant boost to Randstad?s global accounts, which account for approximately a quarter of Randstad Group?s revenue.
Aart van der Gaag
Dutch
Since 2000, Aart van der Gaag has been director of ABU, the larger of the two Federations of Private Employment Agencies in the Netherlands. He became ABU?s president in May. With long-time experience at the director-level in a number of public and private staffing organisations, he is known as an influential contributor to one of the most mature staffing markets in Europe.
Paul Venables
British
Paul Venables has been group finance director of Hays since 2006. He has previously worked at Deloitte and Touche in the U.S. and Exel plc for 13 years prior to its purchase by Deutsche Post and DHL Logistics in 2006. He is also a senior independent director of Wincanton plc.
Mark Verstraete
Belgian
eZ Publish PDF export 24 of 27 Mark Verstraete is the managing director of T-Groep, the sixth-largest staffing firm in Belgium and the 31st largest in Europe with operations in the Netherlands and Poland. In 2008, Verstraete led the acquisition of the Dutch privately held human resource company Luba by T- Groep, starting its international expansion and strengthening its position in the Benelux market for personnel services.
Federico Vione
Italian
Federico Vione is regional head of Italy, Eastern Europe, Middle East, North Africa and India for Adecco. He originally joined Adecco in 1999 as branch manager and was soon promoted to zone manager for central Italy and has been a member of the executive committee since October 2009. From 2010 to 2012, Vione was president of Assolavoro, the Italian National Association for Employment Agencies, which represents the staffing industry in Italy. He graduated in economics from Università G. D?Annunzio in Pescara, Italy.
Robert Walters
British
Robert Walters is chief executive of the firm bearing his name. After three years at Touche Ross & Co., Walters joined the recruitment firm Michael Page as one of its first employees. After an eight-year period, which included setting up the firm?s New York office, he returned to London and established Robert Walters in 1985, specialising in junior to middle management professional positions. Robert Walters plc now has 53 offices in 24 countries.
Simon Wassall
British
Simon Wassall has been with Harvey Nash for more than 15 years and is responsible for the U.K. and European IT recruitment operations. Prior to joining Harvey Nash, Wassall opened several new operations for Austin Benn, which led to his board appointment to a newly acquired advertising and marketing company.
Oliver Watson
British
Oliver Watson is an executive board director for the PageGroup. He is responsible for all eZ Publish PDF export 25 of 27 Michael Page, Page Executive and Page Personnel operations in the U.K., U.S., Canada, Middle East and South Africa. Prior to this he was regional managing director for Michael Page UK. Watson joined the company as a consultant in London in 1995.
Tim Watts
British
Tim Watts is lifetime president of Pertemps Network Group, which is made up of Pertemps Ltd. and Network Group. The former has been in the Sunday Times? Top 100 Companies to Work For from 2007 to 2013, while Network Group is made up of 41 subsidiary companies. Watts is ?High Sheriff of the West Midlands,? a ceremonial position he will undertake for 12 months.
Martin Weiß
German
Martin Weiß is the co-founder and managing director of ZAG Zeitarbeit, headquartered in Hanover, Germany. In 2007, Weiss founded the non-profit ZAG foundation Pro Chance, which supports the young and disadvantaged in various projects. Founded in 1984, ZAG Zeitarbeit operates more than 100 branches, employs more than 10,000 workers with approximately 17,000 client companies. With turnover of ?280 million in 2012, ZAG Zeitarbeit is one of the 10 largest staffing companies in Germany. It is a member of the BAP Federal Employers? Association of Personnel Services.
Steve Weston
British
Steve Weston is Hays? chief information officer and global head of Hays Talent Solutions. He joined Hays in 2008 as CIO. Prior to Hays, he was U.K. managing director for Xansa, a publicly quoted outsourcing and technology firm. He has also worked in the manufacturing and financial services sectors.
Rob Zandbergen
Dutch
Rob Zandbergen has been CEO and a member of the executive board of USG People nv since 2010. Prior to that he served as an interim CEO of USG People nv and interim CFO. He has been active in the temporary employment sector since early 2003, starting off as CFO of eZ Publish PDF export 26 of 27 Solvus nv, the publicly listed company acquired by USG People in 2005. USG People is the fourth-largest staffing firm in Europe.
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