2014

Oct 4, 2014

SI 100 Europe - 2014, German -

Martin Weiß is the co-founder and managing director of ZAG Zeitarbeit, headquartered in Hanover, Germany. In 2007, Weiß founded the non-profit ZAG foundation Pro Chance, which supports the young and disadvantaged in various projects. Founded in 1984, ZAG Zeitarbeit operates more than 100 branches, employs more than 10,000 workers with approximately 17,000 client companies. With turnover of €280 million in 2012, ZAG Zeitarbeit is one of the 10 largest staffing companies in Germany. It is a member of the BAP Federal Employers’ Association of Personnel Services.

Oct 4, 2014

SI 100 Europe - 2014, British -

Steve Ingham is chief executive of PageGroup, the 12th-largest staffing firm in Europe. He joined Michael Page (as the company was then called) in 1987 as a consultant and was promoted to operating director in 1990 and appointed to the board as executive director of U.K. operations in 2001. He became managing director of U.K. operations in 2005 and was appointed chief executive in 2006.

Oct 4, 2014

SI 100 Europe - 2014, British -

James Kelly joined technology recruitment specialist Lorien Resourcing as CEO in August 2008. He has successfully guided Lorien through a period of rapid growth during which revenues increased from £147 million to £296 million and both contract and permanent placement numbers have doubled. With Lorien, Kelly has sold and delivered large-scale managed service and recruitment process outsource solutions for the likes of Fujitsu, Monitise, Phoenix and KPMG. Lorien currently has more than 200 staff members.

Oct 3, 2014

SI 100 Europe - 2014, Italian -

Stefano Colli-Lanzi is chief executive officer of Gi Group, an Italian staffing firm that operates directly or through partnerships in more than 30 countries worldwide. He has extensive professional and managerial experience and established Gi Group in 1998. The company is ranked the eighth-largest staffing firm in Europe by Staffing Industry Analysts. Colli-Lanzi is also vice chairman of Assolavoro and professor of business economics at the Milan Catholic University.

Oct 4, 2014

SI 100 Europe - 2014, Dutch -

Since 2000, Aart van der Gaag has been director of ABU, the larger of the two Federations of Private Employment Agencies in the Netherlands. He became ABU’s president in May. With long-time experience at the director-level in a number of public and private staffing organisations, he is known as an influential contributor to one of the most mature staffing markets in Europe.

Oct 3, 2014

SI 100 Europe - 2014, British, Pakistani -

James Caan made his fortune through the global, multi-million pound success of his companies Alexander Mann and Humana International. In 2004, he founded private equity firm Hamilton Bradshaw, which has more than 20 recruitment companies in its portfolio. He is best known for being on the hit BBC show Dragons’ Den, and more recently, The Business Class on CNBC. Caan chairs the U.K. government’sStart Up Loans scheme, which provides funding and mentoring to budding entrepreneurs.

Oct 4, 2014

SI 100 Europe - 2014, Dutch -

Mariette Patijn is an official at FNV Bondgenoten, the largest union in the Netherlands, and a member of the union’s executive committee since May 2013. She represents the interests of temporary workers. Since 1995 she contributed substantially to the creation of collective labour agreements for temporary workers, including the one concluded last year, with equal pay from day one of an assignment.

Oct 3, 2014

SI 100 Europe - 2014, American -

Carl Camden is president and CEO of Kelly Services, the fifth-largest staffing firm in the world and the 10th largest in Europe, although the company has reduced its European network in recent years. Having earned a doctorate by the age of 25, Camden has been a marketing executive for a bank holding company, co-president of an advertising agency and co-founder of a behavioural research group. He is also a tenured university professor. A recipient of numerous awards throughout his career, Camden is a big supporter of mandated health benefits for temporary workers. He is a member of The Business Roundtable and an executive committee member of the Committee for Economic Development.

Sep 30, 2014

SI 100 Europe - 2014, German -

Georg Breucker is the CEO of Persona Service. Headquartered in Lüdenscheid, North Rhine Westphalia, the company is one of the five largest in the German staffing market. The company has a branch network of 185 locations in Germany and Switzerland with its first office outside of Germany opening in Basel in 2002. It was founded in 1967 by Brigitta and Werner Müller and was one of the first staffing agencies to operate in Germany. Persona Service places about 18,000 workers with about 10,000 clients annually, and had a turnover of €662 million in 2012.

Oct 4, 2014

SI 100 Europe - 2014, British -

Steve Russell is group chief executive of Bond International Software, a provider of specialist staffing software for recruitment agencies worldwide. During Russell’s career in software development, he has held a number of senior management positions, including group managing director of Scan Data International plc. Russell formed the company, which then acquired a controlling interest in Bond Associates Ltd. in 1988. On the acquisition of Bond Associates Inc., he became the group’s chief executive, and following a successful flotation on AIM, became CEO.