2022

Nathalie Jaoui

Nathalie Jaoui

Groupe CRIT
Deputy CEO
Groupe CRIT

Nathalie Jaoui is deputy CEO and head of Groupe Crit, a France-based €1.7 billion temporary recruitment provider with 8,200 employees in 12 countries. In 2021, Groupe Crit was featured on Institut Choiseul’s New Conquerors of the Economy, a study honouring 150 companies engaged in conquering their markets. Jaoui has led the group’s external growth strategy in the US market and engaged it in corporate social responsibility. She has also been on the board of directors of Prism’emploi, the French staffing association, and an executive council member of MEDEF.

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Zoë Morris

Zoë Morris

Frank Recruitment Group
President
British

As president of Frank Recruitment Group, Zoë Morris oversees the company’s ongoing business and sales operations, employee training and hiring initiatives. Under her leadership, the group swiftly adapted to evolving market conditions by helping more than 6,000 organisations secure new talent in 2021 and placing 12,000 candidates in new roles. Most recently, she oversaw the expansion of the group’s global footprint, with new offices opening in Zurich, Tokyo, Milan, Frankfurt, Montreal and Toronto. Committed to ensuring well-being and equality for her own employees, Morris is also a mentor at Migrant Leaders, a charity that inspires and develops disadvantaged young migrants across the UK.

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Steve Rousseau

Steve Rousseau

House of Talents
CEO and Founder
Belgian

Steve Rousseau is CEO and founder of House of Talents, an international human resources services group that comprises companies in Belgium, the Netherlands, France and Germany. In 2021, Rousseau continued his ambition to grow the group’s footprint internationally with the purchase of recruitment parent company The Human Network in the Netherlands and consulting firm Quintessence in Belgium. While growing House of Talents, Rousseau aims to keep its 2,500 employees feeling proud and valued. He is also the co-owner of Get Driven, a chauffeur service.

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Jean-Philippe Papin

Jean-Philippe Papin

Actual Leader Group
Founder and CEO
French

Jean-Philippe Papin is general director of France-based Actual Leader Group, established in November 2018 after the merger of temporary employment firms Groupe Actual and Leader Intérim. He had been CEO of the latter, which he founded in 1992. The combined group is now the seventh-largest staffing firm in France. Earlier this year, the group acquired France-based HR services firm Ressources RH Group. Also this year, Flexfamily, owned by Actual Leader Group, acquired Evolon, a Dutch-based training provider. Actual Leader has 2,300 internal and 135,000 temporary workers in a network of more than 470 agencies in Europe.

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Kelvin Stagg

Kelvin Stagg

PageGroup plc
CFO
British

A chartered management accountant, Kelvin Stagg joined PageGroup plc as group finance controller and company secretary in 2006 and became acting CFO of the £1.64 billion global business in 2013; he was named CFO the following year. In 2017, Stagg and his team launched Page Outsourcing to operate in recruitment process outsourcing and as a managed service programme. Stagg has significant international experience and has high levels of compliance, change management, large teams and systems experience across almost every finance discipline. Additionally, Stagg is a member of the Professional Business Services Council.

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Ben Batten

Ben Batten

Volt
Senior VP & Managing Director
Australian

Market disrupter Ben Batten serves as senior vice president and managing director – international at Volt, leading operations across the United Kingdom, Belgium, France and Singapore. With a passion for innovative technology, Batten headed the upgrade of Volt’s tech stack, enabling international teams to transition seamlessly to remote work during Covid-19 lockdowns. Batten also led an international rebrand and realignment of service lines, creating a highly focused STEM business. Recently, Batten championed a DE&I programme across Europe and Asia, empowering staff and clients to integrate DE&I into the workplace. Batten is active in Apsco and the American Chamber of Commerce.

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Christophe Catoir

Christophe Catoir

The Adecco Group
President, Adecco
French

Appointed president of the global business unit Adecco in January 2021, Christophe Catoir is responsible for the firm’s business globally, overseeing the group’s workforce solutions operations (general staffing). He has been serving as a member of The Adecco Group’s executive committee since 2015. Catoir was elected to the board of the Global Apprenticeship Network in April 2021; he previously served as president of GAN in France from 2017 to the end of 2020. Prior to his current role, Catoir was regional head of France and Northern Europe and has held a number of leadership roles across France.

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Miles Hunt

Miles Hunt

Cobalt Recuitment, Darwin Recruitment, Davidson
Chairman
British

Industry veteran Miles Hunt became the first-ever chairman of Cobalt Recruitment in 2019. Miles also chairs several other companies, including Apsco Global, which represents the professional recruitment sector in Germany, Singapore and Australia as well as the UK. In 2013, he launched private equity investment firm Benula Capital, which has nine investments in the staffing sector, HR consulting firms and providers of recruiting technology. Prior to Benula, Hunt founded UK-based international staffing specialist Empresaria Group in 1996 and led its IPO in 2004 before stepping down as chief executive in 2012.

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Simon Blockley

Simon Blockley

Impellam Group plc
CEO, Impellam Global Managed Services
British

As CEO of Impellam Global Managed Services, Simon Blockley oversees Impellam Group’s Guidant Global, Comensura and Flexy brands, which together delivered £838.7 million in revenue in 2021, exceeding pre-pandemic revenue of £785.3 million. Blockley’s leadership led the business through the uncertainty of the pandemic while maintaining its reputation as a people-first employer and a builder of better client businesses. Blockley has appeared on the Staffing 100 Europe list for six consecutive years. Impellam Group is a £2.26 billion UK-based staffing firm that was ranked as the 19th-largest global staffing firm by SIA.

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Rob Zandbergen

Rob Zandbergen

Recruit Holdings Co.
CEO, RGF Staffing; Managing Corporate Executive Officer, Recruit Holdings Co.
Dutch

Rob Zandbergen is the managing corporate executive officer at Recruit Holdings Co. Ltd. and CEO of RGF Staffing. He strives to make a material social impact in RGF Staffing’s local communities by providing mentoring schemes for disadvantaged groups, raising funds for LGBTQ+ charities and supporting local schools’ early career initiatives. Zandbergen’s team trained and hired many thousands of certified employees for testing and vaccination sites. The company also supports relief efforts for Ukraine and is helping refugees find work in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and France. RGF Staffing aims to be the world’s most sustainable staffing company by 2030.

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