2022

Adrian Adair

Adrian Adair

Morson Group
COO
British

Adrian Adair joined the UK’s largest engineering staffing rm, Morson Group, in November 2011 as operations director and was promoted to chief operating officer in October 2018. A strategic leader, Adair has played a pivotal role in creating the group’s recruitment process outsourcing solution, bringing new value-adding services to market, developing the next generation of Morson talent and enabling overseas expansion in Australia and North America via organic growth and acquisition. As a passionate advocate and ally, Adair is working on several diversity, inclusion and digital poverty initiatives to enable opportunities for all and create positive change in the industry and beyond.

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Jan Gupta

Jan Gupta

The Adecco Group
President, Akkodis
German

Jan Gupta joined The Adecco Group’s executive committee as president of the global business unit Modis in 2019, focusing on delivering cross-industry expertise in technology and digital engineering consulting, talent services and skilling. In 2021, Modis merged with R&D services and engineering consulting firm Akka to form Akkodis, where Gupta serves as president. A German national with an academic background in mechanical engineering and economics, Gupta holds a doctorate in mechanical engineering from Aachen University. His career spans more than 20 years in the technology industry, most recently as COO and board member of Schunk Group, a German advanced engineering company.

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Yvon Drouet

Yvon Drouet

Synergie
Deputy GM and CFO
French

As deputy general manager and CFO, Yvon Drouet oversees finance and investment at global staffing firm Synergie and plays a key role in the group’s expansion efforts. Paris-based Synergie ranks as the sixth-largest staffing firm in France. It also ranks as the 18th-largest in the world, operating in 17 countries with 770 branches. In 2021, Synergie increased its stake in DCS Easyware, a digital services company based in Lyon, France, to 100% from 66%. DCS operates in France, Belgium and Spain.

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Laurence Kirk

Laurence Kirk

PRO Unlimited
VP, EMEA/APAC
British

Known for making complicated staffing problems feel simple, Laurence Kirk serves as vice president, EMEA/APAC for Magnit (formerly Pro Unlimited), the industry’s fourth-largest contingent workforce management provider with more than $21 billion in spend under management. He joined Magnit in September 2020. Passionate about driving change and a leading expert on workforce solutions and international strategy, Kirk helps clients prepare for the talent challenges of tomorrow by sharing his 20-plus years of industry expertise paired with innovative solutions for managing the entire CW ecosystem. Kirk previously held MSP and RPO leadership roles at Capita and Allegis Global Solutions.

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Dinette Koolhaas

Dinette Koolhaas

Kelly
SVP and President, Kelly International
Dutch

Senior VP and President Dinette Koolhaas leads Kelly’s international business unit overseeing 16 countries, including in Europe and Mexico. Koolhaas has a focus on growth strategies and has delivered more than $1 billion in revenue in 2021. Koolhaas has also overseen the implementation of diversity, equity and inclusion and sustainability programmes in all 16 countries. Koolhaas took on her role in 2020, having previously served as VP and operations leader for Kelly’s Europe, Middle East and Africa region. She spent 12 years with USG People before joining Kelly in 2008. Koolhaas is based in Switzerland.

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Ingrid Hofmann

Ingrid Hofmann

Hofmann Corp.
Founder and CEO
German

Ingrid Hofmann 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. She expanded rapidly into Eastern Germany upon the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. That same year, the birth of her daughter led to her commitment to make the worlds of work and family compatible. I.K. Hofmann is the fifth-largest staffing firm in Germany and the 22nd largest in Europe. In 2007, Hofmann was awarded the Federal Order of Merit by then-Federal President Horst Köhler.

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Bev White

Bev White

Nash Squared
CEO
British

Since joining the Harvey Nash Group nearly three years ago, CEO Bev White has focused on growing the business beyond standard recruitment services. Today, the group offers technology solutions as much as talent solutions, leading to a name change from Harvey Nash Group to Nash Squared. White’s next goals are to build the Nash Squared brand, gain market share and keep the group’s growth momentum. White is also a board member and strategy board member of French company SQLI, an advisor to the board of Career Star Group, and a member of the Skills and Inclusion Working Group of HM Government’s Professional and Business Services Council.

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Ralf Weissbeck

Ralf Weissbeck

The Adecco Group
CIO
German

CIO of The Adecco Group since January 2020 and a member of the executive committee since January 2021, Ralf Weissbeck is responsible for the company’s corporate IT infrastructure, enterprise architecture and global solution delivery management. He joined the company in February 2019 as chief technology officer. His career has spanned more than 16 years of IT leadership experience inside global organisations, most recently as CIO at APM Terminals; he has also held executive IT roles at Deutsche Post DHL and Maersk.

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Thierry Geffroy

Thierry Geffroy

Samsic RH
President and CEO
French

President and CEO Thierry Geffroy has been with France-based Samsic RH since 1992. In 2010, he became president with the strong ambition to design a global service offering in the management and development of human resources. Under Geffroy’s leadership, Samsic acquired a majority stake in recruitment services firm Sellick Partnership and made two acquisitions in Ireland and Morocco, its first expansion into the African continent. Today, Samsic RH is one of the major players in the employment sector in France and operates all across Europe.

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Dirk Hahn

Dirk Hahn

Hays plc
Managing Director, Continental European & Middle East
German

As CEO of Hays plc’s German and continental European and Middle East markets, Dirk Hahn leads 14 of the 33 countries in which the company operates. Hays plc is the sixthlargest staffing firm in the world, according to SIA. Germany contributed £245 million of Hays’ reported net fees of £1.19 billion in fiscal 2022. Hahn joined Germany’s board as COO in 2008 and the group’s executive board in 2018. He began his career in 1997 at Ascena, which was acquired by Hays in 2003. Hahn holds an MBA from the University of Tübingen in Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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