SI 100 Europe - 2018, British -

Kevin Barrow is a partner with international law firm Osborne Clarke LLP. Since 1990, he has advised staffing companies on all types of legal work, including commercial deals, international joint ventures and M&A. His multi-country team has advised on about half of the higher-value staffing M&A transactions in the EMEA region since 2010, and works for more than 100 hirers and suppliers on market-leading UK, EU and international flexible workforce (MSP, RPO and VMS) projects. His team is a well-regarded advisor on regulation of digital recruitment and online exchanges, tax planning relating to flexible workforces, and worker misclassification and co-employment class actions. Barrow has led a campaign to change the regulatory regime affecting online exchanges, and has rolled out staffing/MSP deals in 40 countries in the last four years.

SI 100 Europe - 2018, British -

As chief commercial officer of Alexander Mann Solutions, Matthew Rodger is responsible for the performance of the Advanced Workforce Solutions division containing AMS’s most complex outsourcing arrangements. He is also accountable for the commercialisation of all products, services and partnerships and for corporate M&A activity. Rodger joined AMS in 2001 as sales director and has held a number of roles including COO APAC and managing director, contingent workforce solutions. He was recognised by the Association of Professional Staffing Companies for Outstanding Contribution in 2012 for championing APSCode, the RPO and MSP code of conduct. His 27-year staffing sector career started with an IT recruitment business where he became the UK sales director.

SI 100 Europe - 2022, British -

Matthew Rodger has worked at AMS, a global provider of RPO, MSP and TA advisory solutions, in a leadership capacity since 2001. Currently chief growth and commercial officer as well as member of the board, he oversees growth strategy and commercialisation of AMS’ products and solutions. He is also accountable for corporate M&A activity; most recently, Rodger led AMS in its July acquisition of Flexibility, its Indian partner, adding 1,000 new colleagues across seven Indian cities. Prior roles at AMS include commercial and corporate director; managing director, contingent workforce solutions; chief operating officer APAC and client services director.

Staffing 100 Europe | 2022

SI 100 Europe - 2014, 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.

SI 100 Europe - 2017, British -

Ann Swain has been the chief executive of the Association of Professional Staffing Companies since 1999. The trade body supports the needs of recruitment firms operating in professional staffing sectors in the UK, Asia Pacific and Germany. Swain has more than 20 years’ recruitment experience and is a leading commentator on professional recruitment trends, the co-author of the best-selling Professional Recruiter’s Handbook and speaks frequently at UK and international recruitment conferences. She appears in the 2017 docuseries Top Recruiter 5; North America v. Europe, as chair of the European team. In 2009, she accepted a fellowship from the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children charity in recognition of her outstanding work to support vulnerable children in the UK.

SI 100 Europe - 2017, British -

Kevin Barrow is a partner with law firm Osborne Clarke. Since 1990, he has advised staffing companies on all types of legal work including commercial deals, international joint ventures and M&A. His multicountry team works for more than 100 hirers and suppliers on market-leading UK, EU and international flexible workforce — MSP, RPO and VMS — projects, regulation of digital recruitment and online exchanges, tax planning relating to flexible workforces and worker misclassification and coemployment class actions. Barrow has led a campaign to change the regulatory regime affecting online exchanges, and in the last three years has rolled out staffing/MSP deals in 40 countries.