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.
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 people related 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.
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.
Andreas Dinges became the regional head of the Adecco Group’s Germany and Austriadivision in 2009 and is an executivecommittee member. He joined Adecco in 2006 as CEO of DIS DeutscherIndustrie Service AG. From 2002 to 2006, he was the spokesman of the executiveboard of 3M ESPE AG. He started his career at 3M Company in 1988. Dinges isa 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.
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. Prisingjoined ManpowerGroup in 1999 and previously served as managing director of Manpower Italy; director of Manpower Global Accounts— Europe, Middle Eastand 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
