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Staffing 100 Europe | Hall of Fame |  2020

Sir Alec Reed in 1960 founded Reed, the largest family-run recruitment business in the world. In 1972, he founded Reed Business School, a residential training centre for accountants and the only business school to specialise in recruitment. In 1995, he and his son James founded UK job board reed.co.uk and in 1998 created Reed in Partnership, which has helped more than 150,000 unemployed people into work. Sir Reed has set up a number of charities including The Big Give, which has raised over £125 million for worthy causes, Reed Foundation, Womankind and Ethiopiaid. He has written several books and was knighted in 2011 for his service to business and charity.

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Staffing 100 Europe | Hall of Fame |  2020

Ann Swain is global CEO of APSCo, an international trade body she founded in 1999 that represents the professional recruitment sector in the UK, Germany, Singapore and Australia. Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, APSCo actively advocated for the industry in regard to government policy developments. In order to support recruitment business growth during these difficult times, Swain and the APSCo team launched a number of initiatives during lockdown, including AdvisorLink — a service to connect recruitment firms with some of the sector’s best business growth experts and non-executive directors. A platform speaker at UK and international recruitment conferences, Swain co-authored the Professional Recruiter’s Handbook and chaired the European team in the popular Top Recruiter documentary series.

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Staffing 100 Europe | Hall of Fame | 2022

For nearly 18 years, Steve Ingham CBE has served as CEO of PageGroup, a global business with over 8,500 people working across the four core brands in 37 countries. Always a proponent of DE&I agendas at PageGroup, Ingham became particularly focused on raising the profile of disability in the workplace after becoming a wheelchair user following a near-fatal skiing accident in 2019. As evidence of wholly integrating DE&I into everything the company does, PageGroup was awarded the Clear Assured Gold Standard. In 2022, Ingham was awarded a CBE, or Commander of the British Empire, for his services to business and people with disabilities.

Ingham in April 2022 announced his planned retirement; as of this writing, his successor has not been named.

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Staffing 100 Europe | Hall of Fame |  2020

Robert Walters established specialist professional recruitment consultancy Robert Walters in 1985 in London. The £1.22 billion Robert Walters Group now comprises three specialist brands providing recruitment consultancy, staffing, recruitment process outsourcing and managed services. The company operates across 31 countries and employs more than 3,700 people. Walters began his career with Touche Ross, and in 1978 he joined the recruitment firm Michael Page, where he set up its New York office before returning to London to found his own business. In 2015, the company’s operations were certified as 100% Carbon Balanced worldwide by the World Land Trust. In 2020, the group pledged to plant a tree for every permanent candidate it placed.

SI 100 Europe Hall of Fame - British -

Staffing 100 Europe | Hall of Fame |  2020

Denis Waxman retired in 2007 as CEO of UK-based Hays plc. He joined the staffing industry from a career in accounting with the 1968 launch of his own staffing firm, Career Care Group. The company served as Hays’ door into the staffing industry when the latter acquired it in 1986; Hays was founded in 1867 as an operator of wharves and warehouses on the River Thames. Waxman stayed on as managing director of the recruitment business, and moved up the ranks to become CEO in 2004. Hays plc is the sixth-largest staffing firm in the world.