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Simon Blockley brings more than two decades of recruitment industry experience to his role as CEO of Impellam Global Managed Services. He now oversees Impellam Group’s Guidant Global, Comensura and Flexy brands, which together delivered £974.4 million in revenue in 2022, a 16% year-over-year increase. One of Blockley’s passions is championing workplace inclusivity. A leading example of this is acting as chair of the Employment Advisory Board for HM Prison Chelmsford, a team that aids transitioning people leaving prison into rewarding careers.

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Timo Lehne began his career in staffing in 2006 at SThree’s Progressive Recruitment business in Germany. Now Lehne serves as CEO for SThree. He is also a member of Apsco Germany and the World Economic Council, and he is a founding member of the German Freelance Association. In 2022, Lehne led SThree to a record net fee and profit performance for the year with like-for-like net fees up 19% and profits up 24%. This was due to the successful execution of strategies Lehne put in place. Going forward, Lehne plans on growing SThree and enhancing its candidate and client experience through a targeted technology improvement programme.

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Under founder and Chairman Alan Savage’s leadership, Orion Group delivers manpower solutions to some of the world’s leading blue-chip organisations in the world. Employing 2,500 contractors per year, Savage is spearheading the global expansion of his business, now reaching 32 offices throughout Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and Africa. In business for over 35 years, Savage celebrated a historic milestone this past year by donating £35,000 to dozens of charitable groups worldwide. Savage also led Orion Group to receiving the coveted Highland Business Award for Global Growth in 2022.

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Edilson Camara is CEO of Swiss executive search firm Egon Zehnder. Based in the US, Camara provides board consulting, executive search and leadership assessment services to global, local and family-owned companies. He joined Egon Zehnder in 1999, working with industrial clients in Brazil where he opened Egon Zehnder’s first office in Rio de Janeiro. He then advanced to become the leader of the Brazilian practice while growing it to become the firm’s most profitable worldwide. Camara was appointed to the executive committee in 2009 and later also joined the finance committee. He also led the Canadian practice’s three offices from 2013-2019.

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As CEO of AMS since 2019, David Leigh is bringing talent technology to the forefront of strategy at the global talent solutions firm. Over the past 12 months, Leigh and his AMS colleagues have led several humanitarian efforts during the Ukraine crisis, including collecting medical supplies, repurposing office space for temporary accommodation and establishing job clinics to assist displaced people seeking paid work. Prior to AMS, Leigh was CEO and executive chair at international education company Study Group and CEO at talent assessment provider SHL. Leigh is also a non-executive director of research provider Third Bridge and a trustee of Action for ME.

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Viktor Calabrò founded Coople Holding AG in 2009 to enhance staffing processes for finding flexible workers. Today, Coople employs a team of 180 in offices across Europe and has a user base of more than 30,000 clients and 950,000 flexible workers. Calabrò is immensely proud of Coople’s ability to sail through unpredictable market challenges and secure market shares in recent years. A visionary trailblazer, Calabrò’s mission is to digitalise flexible workforce management and create a rewarding experience for both companies and job seekers. Calabrò is also an acclaimed keynote speaker in the HR and management field.

Staffing 100 Europe | 2023

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As VP of EMEA for Allegis Global Solutions since 2020, Simon Bradberry drives operational excellence, innovation and growth for AGS. In the past year, Bradberry directed efforts toward aligning workforce channels and skill-task matching. Under his leadership, the team also fostered a partnership with EcoVadis, an independent sustainability assessment organisation. The collaboration ensures AGS remains at the forefront of sustainability, providing clients with unparalleled transparency. With more than 26 years of experience, Bradberry offers advisory and practical support to companies embarking on a workforce productivity transition journey. Additionally, he is the co-author of Universal Workforce Model: An Outcome-First Approach to Getting Work Done.

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Dirk Hahn has served Hays plc for nearly 27 years and was named CEO in September. While much his tenure was spent as COO, in 2020 Hahn became CEO of Hays AG, assuming responsibility for nearly half of the 32 countries in which the company operates, including continental Europe and the Middle East markets. In 2022 Germany alone accounted for 26% of the company’s revenue and over 2,000 of Hays’ consultants. Hahn believes in a leadership and communication style that is approachable, present, vulnerable, and authentic — a strategic mindset that he credits for his team’s long success at Hays.

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Rosario Rasizza is the CEO of Openjobmetis S.p.A., which currently has over 150 branches throughout Italy and works with over 9,000 companies. His commitment to growth while enhancing the temporary employment sector through economic value drivers has not gone unnoticed in recent years. In 2023, Rasizza led Openjobmetis to receive an ESG risk rating of 9.6, which puts the company in the top 5% of HR Service organizations in the Sustainalytics Global Universe. He also was recognised for his commitment to job placement of refugees and asylum seekers, awarded the “Welcome. Working for refugee integration” by the UN for Refugee Agency.

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President Alexandre Pham founded digital staffing provider Mistertemp’ group in France in 2009 and has since expanded into Italy. Mistertemp’ has more than 55,000 job seekers on its platform. Under Pham’s leadership, Mistertemp’ became one the first staffing firms in France to integrate AI and ChatGPT into the job offer process. After developing Mistertemp’ in Italy, Pham hopes to expand further. Mistertemp’ joined the French association PAQTE (Pact with Neighborhoods for All Businesses), which works to improve economic and social inclusion for disadvantaged areas, and developed a partnership with Proxite, an association promoting employment in underprivileged urban areas.