Meet the 2023 champions of change in the €230 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 honour the 21 members of the Staffing 100 Europe Hall of Fame 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.
Lassi Määttä

Lassi Määttä

Lassi Määttä serves as CEO of Finland-based staffing firm Barona, which operates in nine countries. Under his leadership, Barona has evolved from traditional staffing services to a diverse set of solutions designed to meet the quickly changing needs of the world of work. With a strategic focus on international labour, Määttä recently spearheaded the company’s(…)

Christophe Catoir

Christophe Catoir

Leading Adecco as its global president since January 2021, Christophe Catoir was selected as co-host for the first European Tent Business Summit this year to help pledge jobs for refugees. At this conference, he announced Adecco’s commitment to help at least 50,000 refugees find quality jobs in the next three years. Catoir joined The Adecco(…)

James Reed

James Reed

James Reed joined Reed Global in 1992 as a non-executive director, became CEO in 1997 and has served as chairman since 2004. In December 2022, Reed was awarded the Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to business and charity. Among his initiatives: Everyone at Reed Global spends one day a week(…)

Edilson Camara

Edilson Camara

Edilson Camara is CEO of Swiss executive search firm Egon Zehnder. Based in the US, Camara provides board consulting, executive search and leadership assessment services to global, local and family-owned companies. He joined Egon Zehnder in 1999, working with industrial clients in Brazil where he opened Egon Zehnder’s first office in Rio de Janeiro. He(…)

Toby Fowlston

Toby Fowlston

Spending 24 years of his career with Robert Walters Group, Toby Fowlston was appointed group CEO in April 2023. With a focus on international expansion, discipline diversification, building a purpose-led business and driving an entrepreneurial culture, Fowlston has been able to leverage new opportunities while ensuring outstanding customer service is at the foundation of what(…)

Miles Hunt

Miles Hunt

Miles Hunt is a recruitment industry entrepreneur, investor and strategic advisor with more than three decades of expertise in the sector. In 2013, he founded Benula Capital, a private equity firm with nine investments in the staffing sector, HR consulting firms and recruiting technology providers. Prior to Benula, Hunt established UK-based international staffing specialist Empresaria(…)