2020

Harld Peters

Harld Peters

ManpowerGroup
President, Northern Europe
Dutch

Staffing 100 Europe | 2020

Harld Peters joined ManpowerGroup in November 2019 as regional president of Northern Europe, responsible for executing the company’s strategic business plan across the region and overseeing all ManpowerGroup’s brands and offerings: Manpower, Experis and Talent Solutions. Peters is passionate about enabling companies to transform and digitise in a fast-changing environment and is experienced in leading technology-driven transformation. Before ManpowerGroup, he was at UPS where he held multiple leadership positions across Europe and Asia.

Stefano Scabbio

Stefano Scabbio

ManpowerGroup
President, Southern Europe and Talent Solutions Global Brand Leader
Italian

Staffing 100 Europe | 2020

Stefano Scabbio is accelerating growth and driving next generation innovation across the region as ManpowerGroup president of Southern Europe and talent solutions global brand leader. He joined ManpowerGroup in 2003 as finance director of Italy, was appointed managing director in 2006 and named president in 2007. Passionate about helping people develop in-demand skills while connecting business with the talent they need to succeed, he previously was the president of Assolavoro, the Italian Association of Private Employment Agencies, and regularly leads discussions on workforce strategy, skills development and upskilling people for the digital age.

Sergey Salikov

Sergey Salikov

ANCOR
CEO
Russian

Staffing 100 Europe | 2020

Sergey Salikov joined recruitment company Ancor as a professional consultant in 1994, and in 2008 he became CEO. In 2019, Ancor experienced 27% year-over-year organic growth under Salikov’s leadership, retaining the top position in Russia and all CIS countries. Additionally, Ancor purchased businesses in Thailand, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, with no plans to slow down any time soon. In addition to continued territorial expansion, Salikov’s plans for 2020 include digital transformation and exploring new product niches.

Neil Carberry

Neil Carberry

Recruitment and Employment Confederation
CEO
British

Staffing 100 Europe | 2020

Neil Carberry in 2018 became CEO of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, the professional body representing the UK’s £39 billion recruitment industry. Carberry and his team have played a critical role in getting recruiters access to key government support in the ongoing Covid-19 crisis. Before moving to REC, Carberry was managing director for people and infrastructure at the CBI, where he led the work of the UK’s leading business organisation on employment law and relations, the labour market, education and skills, energy, climate and infrastructure. He is a council member of the conciliation service ACAS and was appointed to the Low Pay Commission in 2014.

Richard Jager

Richard Jager

Randstad NV
CEO Randstad Germany; CEO Randstad Group DACH
Dutch

Staffing 100 Europe | 2020

CEO of Randstad Germany since 2018, Richard Jager in January took on the additional role of CEO Randstad Group DACH. Randstad now has an active role in Germany’s Federal Employers’ Association of Personnel Service Providers and the German Association of Employers as well as in the lobbying circuit in political Berlin. Randstad Germany is the country’s leading personnel service provider with 2019 sales volume of nearly €2.1 billion; under Jager’s leadership it has gained market share for two years in a row in a heavy downturn market. Jager takes every opportunity to improve the image of the staffing industry in Germany.

Jack Beaman

Jack Beaman

Syft (Indeed Flex)
Co-Founder & CEO
British

Staffing 100 Europe | 2020

CEO Jack Beaman, along with co-founder Novo Abakare, developed Syft (Indeed Flex) out of a drive to change how temp staffing works by helping to democratise access to both people and work. Since 2015, the on-demand staffing platform has expanded throughout the UK from London, connecting thousands of employers in hospitality, light industrial, facilities management and care sectors with more than 35,000 verified workers on the app. The company in 2017 also launched SyftForce, an SaaS workforce management platform, enabling enterprises to efficiently manage internal and external casuals in one place, maximising productivity and cost-efficiency. In June 2019, Indeed acquired Syft.

Mark Maeson

Mark Maeson

Actief Group
CEO
Belgian

Staffing 100 Europe | 2020

Mark Maesen is CEO of Belgium-based Actief Group, a €600 million staffing company active in Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and Austria. Maesen in 2020 became CEO of Actief Interim, the group’s brand in Belgium, bringing leadership experience as former CEO of Sara Lee. In 2015, he became CEO of Actief Group. The company has continued to expand and make acquisitions and now employs more than 20,000 temporary workers on a daily basis. Maesen is also closely involved with the Private Art Support Foundation, which collects, preserves and discloses works of art by Belgian artists.

Ingrid Hofmann

Ingrid Hofmann

Hofmann Corp.
Founder & CEO
German

Staffing 100 Europe | 2020

Ingrid Hofmann is one of Germany’s most successful temporary work entrepreneurs. She is CEO of Hofmann Corp., parent company of global staffing and recruiting agency I.K. Hofmann (also known as Hofmann Personal), which she founded in 1985 in Nuremberg, Germany. Guided by her philosophy that growth occurs by recommendation, Hofmann Corp. has become the fifth-largest staffing agency in Germany. The company has 19,800 employees in more than 100 international branches located in the US, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.

Tim Cook

Tim Cook

nGage
Group CEO
British

Staffing 100 Europe | 2020

As group CEO of London-based nGage Specialist Recruitment, a portfolio of highly specialist recruitment companies, Tim Cook enables member businesses to develop their strategies and empowers management to execute their plans. Cook has more than 30 years of experience in recruitment and was the global head of digital and business innovation at Hays, where he oversaw digital activities in 32 countries before attaining his current position in 2013. In 2019, two nGage businesses were named in The Sunday Times Best Companies list. Cook places the customer above all else, leading the boards of each group company to deliver exemplary service on high-profit growth targets to create value for shareholders.

Sven Hennige

Sven Hennige

Robert Half International
Senior Managing Director, Central Europe & France
German

Staffing 100 Europe | 2020

Sven Hennige is the senior managing director, Central Europe, at Robert Half, the world’s largest specialised recruitment firm, and leads its business in Germany, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Austria and the Netherlands. Since joining Robert Half in 2000, Hennige has established 11 branches in Germany and is considered one of the market’s skilled experts for the placement of specialists and managers in finance, accounting and banking on temporary as well as permanent basis. This year, Hennige has been leading Robert Half safely through the crisis by communicating transparently with employees.