2016

Natalia Shuman

Natalia Shuman

Kelly Services
SVP and GM, EMEA and APAC

Natalia Shuman is SVP and GM, EMEA and APAC regions for Kelly Services. Shuman joined Kelly in 1997 and launched the company’s recruitment business in the Moscow market. She has taken responsibility for managing Kelly’s largest and most complex customer programs across the US, Europe and Asia and led strategic cross-divisional projects with focus on results and value creation for the customer. In 2011, Shuman moved to Singapore to focus on Kelly’s customers and partners in the APAC region. She sits on the boards of Kelly’s recently expanded North Asia joint venture, TS Kelly Asia Pacific as well as Ciett.

Jilko Andringa

Jilko Andringa

Manpower Group
President of Northern Europe

Jilko Andringa joined ManpowerGroup in 2008 as general manager, Netherlands, and was named president of Northern Europe in January 2016. He previously served as the regional managing director of Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Austria. Andringa is a graduate in business economics and marketing. He spent five years at Exxon in different management positions. He also worked at Randstad, in the Netherlands, for four years as director of operations and four years as managing director of operations in Atlanta, Ga., USA.

Bernard Zen-Ruffinenis

Bernard Zen-Ruffinenis

Korn Ferry
President, Europe, Middle East and Africa

Bernard Zen-Ruffinenis is president, Europe, Middle East and Africa, for Korn Ferry, which he joined in 2009. From 2000 to 2009, he was the Swiss managing partner for Heidrick & Struggles and European head of the board and CEO practice. Previously, he served as president and CEO of DHL/Danzas Latin America, a company belonging to Deutsche Post World Net group. In the 1990s he was a founding member of Precious Woods (PRWN.SW) and more recently he was a founder of Monarca Coffee Wood, two companies dedicated to counteracting the effect of deforestation and global warming. Zen-Ruffinen is the 2013 recipient of the AESC European Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Executive Search Profession.

James Reed

James Reed

Reed Global
Chairman

James Reed is chairman of the Reed Global group of companies, which was founded by Reed’s father, Sir Alec Reed, in 1960. The company has 2,931 permanent employees working across 456 business units in 134 locations worldwide. Reed is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and was formerly an associate of the Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit and a member of the Institute for Public Policy Research’s business-led taskforce on race equality and diversity in the private sector. Reed is coauthor of the award-winning and best-selling book Put Your Mindset to Work.

Samuel Tual

Samuel Tual

Groupe Actual
President

Samuel Tual is president of Groupe Actual, one of the top privately held staffing firms in the French market. Tual co-founded the company with his father, Gérard Tual, in 2001 from the merger of their respective staffing firms. In 2014, Tual was able to secure funding from private equity partners CM-CIC Capital Finance and Ouest Croissance in order to pursue the group’s growth strategy in its home market. In 2015, Actual acquired four additional firms, including Athmos, thus extending its network in the southeast of France.

Kate Donovan

Kate Donovan

ManpowerGroup Solutions
SVP

ManpowerGroup’s Kate Donovan has been Global RPO president since 2012 and was also named SVP ManpowerGroup Solutions and TAPFIN in 2014. RPO and TAPFIN are workforce solutions delivered to clients globally. Donovan’s insights help clients deliver on their business objectives and execute workforce strategies. Under Donovan’s leadership, ManpowerGroup Solutions RPO was named global leader by Everest Research Group for the past four years and has been ranked industry leader by NelsonHall for five consecutive years.

Kevin Green

Kevin Green

Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC)
CEO

Kevin Green is CEO of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC), the professional body for the UK’s £31.5 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 has more than 9,000 individual members within the Institute of Recruitment Professionals (IRP), all of whom must abide by a code of professional practice.

Darryl Green

Darryl Green

ManpowerGroup
President

Darryl Green was named president of ManpowerGroup in 2012 and COO in 2014. As COO, he is responsible for ManpowerGroup’s four regions — Americas, APME, Southern and Northern Europe. Green previously served as president of ManpowerGroup’s Asia Pacific and Middle East operations. He holds an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and a BA in Japanese/Asian studies from Brigham Young University. Green speaks fluent Japanese and is a director of the Japan Staffing Service Association (JASSA).

Rosaleen Blair

Rosaleen Blair

Alexander Mann Solutions
CEO and Founder

Rosaleen Blair is the CEO and founder of Alexander Mann Solutions, a global talent acquisition and management company that enables people and organisations to achieve their fullest potential. She is widely credited as a pioneer of talent acquisition and management globally, and has received a number of awards, including Veuve Clicquot Businesswoman of the Year, E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year and National Outsourcing Awards Strategic Leader of the Year. In 2007, she led a management buyout backed by Graphite Capital and in 2013 brought in new investor New Mountain Capital, securing an investment of almost €315 million. She invests her time, resources and knowledge in entrepreneurs and small businesses through coaching, sponsorship and mentoring

Claude Guedj

Claude Guedj

Groupe CRIT
CEO

Claude Guedj has been chairman and CEO of Groupe CRIT since 2002. He founded the company in 1962 and was first appointed to the board in 1969. Guedj is considered a pioneer and innovator in the French staffing industry. Under his management, Groupe CRIT rose to the top five largest staffing firms in France, and top 20 globally. In 2015, Groupe CRIT largely outpaced the French market and boosted its operations in Spain and the United States.