Meet the 2022 influencers in the €206 billion European staffing market. This list, compiled by SIA, includes entrepreneurs, CEOs, reformers, lawyers and businesspeople with a wide range of skills and accomplishments who hail from a multitude of staffing markets in the region. We also welcome four new inductees to the Staffing 100 Europe Hall of Fame, which comprises pioneers and champions whose indelible impact is at the core of the industry’s evolution. These lists are not a ranking, but a shout-out to those who have made a difference in the world of work.
René Steenvoorden

René Steenvoorden

As chief digital officer at Randstad nv since 2019 and a member of its executive board, René Steenvoorden is responsible for Randstad’s digital strategy, digital strategy and its implementation across the group worldwide. He also serves as CIO and oversees IT, marketing and communications globally. Steenvoorden is passionate about AI and its influence on the(…)

Adrian Adair

Adrian Adair

Adrian Adair joined the UK’s largest engineering staffing rm, Morson Group, in November 2011 as operations director and was promoted to chief operating officer in October 2018. A strategic leader, Adair has played a pivotal role in creating the group’s recruitment process outsourcing solution, bringing new value-adding services to market, developing the next generation of(…)

David Leigh

David Leigh

David Leigh is CEO of AMS, a London-based provider of RPO, MSP and other talent services. Leigh joined the firm in 2019 from Study Group, where he served as CEO and then executive chair. Leigh’s other experience includes serving as CEO of SHL, a provider of talent assessment solutions. He is only the second CEO(…)

Thierry Geffroy

Thierry Geffroy

President and CEO Thierry Geffroy has been with France-based Samsic RH since 1992. In 2010, he became president with the strong ambition to design a global service offering in the management and development of human resources. Under Geffroy’s leadership, Samsic acquired a majority stake in recruitment services firm Sellick Partnership and made two acquisitions in(…)

Jean-Philippe Papin

Jean-Philippe Papin

Jean-Philippe Papin is general director of France-based Actual Leader Group, established in November 2018 after the merger of temporary employment firms Groupe Actual and Leader Intérim. He had been CEO of the latter, which he founded in 1992. The combined group is now the seventh-largest staffing firm in France. Earlier this year, the group acquired(…)

Dimitri Yocarini

Dimitri Yocarini

Dimitri Yocarini is CEO and a majority shareholder of Olympia, the seventh-largest staffing firm in the Netherlands. He is also a board member of the Dutch Federation of Private Employment Agencies (ABU). Yocarini and the ABU board last year published research into the future of work in the Netherlands and what the labour market would(…)