British

James Saoulli

James Saoulli

Rullion
CEO
British

James Saoulli is CEO of Rullion, the 17th largest recruitment company in the UK with £374 million in 2019 revenue. The company helps UK businesses and public-sector organisations recruit people for specialist permanent and temporary roles. Saoulli held several leadership roles in Rullion Management Services and Rullion Solutions before becoming the CEO in 2017. Under his leadership, the company has launched several programmes aimed at modernisation and business growth. Pre-Covid, Rullion introduced its remote working policy for all employees, and this has served the company well.

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Alistair Cox

Alistair Cox

Hays
Chief Executive

Alistair Cox has been chief executive of London-based global staffing firm Hays plc since 2007. A chartered engineer, Cox began his career at British Aerospace, subsequently moving to Schlumberger in 1982 where he held a number of roles in field engineering, management and research science. After earning an MBA from Stanford, Alistair worked for McKinsey & Co. before joining Blue Circle Industries plc, where he was the group strategy director and then the regional director for Asia. Prior to joining Hays, Cox was chief executive of the IT outsourcing organisation Xansa plc. From 2009 to 2015, he was a nonexecutive director of 3i Group plc.

Alistair Cox

Alistair Cox

Hays
CEO

Alistair Cox is chief executive of Hays, which had revenue of £3,843 million in its last financial year. He has been CEO since 2007. Before Hays, he was chief executive at Xansa plc from 2002. He is a chartered engineer and has an MBA from the Stanford Business School in California.

Carmen Watson

Carmen Watson

Pertemps
Chairperson

Carmen Watson joined Pertemps in 1976 as a secretary and by 1983 progressed to the boardroom as commercial director. From 1983 to 2000, Watson was responsible for the formation of a corporate business team and turnover grew tenfold to £323 million from £32 million. In 2000, Watson was named managing director and then became chairperson in 2012. A long-term supporter of diversity in the workplace, she is one of the foremost speakers on the value of women in the boardroom. Watson is also a board member at the Race for Opportunity charity.

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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Steve Ingham

Steve Ingham

PageGroup
CEO

Steve Ingham is CEO of PageGroup, one of the largest staffing firms globally. PageGroup has won awards worldwide as a great place to work, was rewarded for Best Diversity Initiative at the CIPD People Management Awards in 2014 and recognised as the Most Socially Engaged Recruiter 2015 by LinkedIn. Ingham joined the company in 1987, when it was still known as Michael Page, as a consultant. He was promoted to operating director in 1990 and then to the board as executive director of UK operations in 2001. He became managing director of UK operations in 2005 and was appointed chief executive officer in 2006.

Simon Blockley

Simon Blockley

Guidant Group
Managing Director

Simon Blockley is the managing director of Guidant Group, a recruitment outsourcing provider division of Impellam. Blockley has 20 years of recruitment outsourcing and managed service expertise, covering MSP and RPO design, planning and implementation.

Blockley joined Guidant in February 2014 as client solutions director and, after achieving considerable success in this role, was recently promoted to managing director. He is responsible for implementing Guidant’s three-year strategy (“Lead, People, Grow”) which sets a framework for the future direction of the business while ensuring an exceptional standard of service for clients, candidates, suppliers and employees.

Phillip Ullmann

Phillip Ullmann

Cordant Group
CEO

Phillip Ullmann is chief executive officer of the Cordant Group, which had revenue of £490 million in its latest reported year. The company provides security, cleaning and recruitment services, was originally founded in 1959 by Jack Ullman (as Securiplan) and continues to be owned and run by the Ullmann family.

Neil Carberry

Neil Carberry

Recruitment and Employment Confederation
Chief Executive

Neil Carberry became chief executive of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation in June 2018.

The REC has been vocal under Carberry’s leadership in the media and government, representing recruitment in the economic debate. He began his recruitment career with executive search firm Fraser Watson in 1999 before earning a post-graduate degree in HR at the London School of Economics and joining the Confederation of British Industry in 2004. He is a member of the council of the conciliation service ACAS and of the Low Pay Commission and an ambassador for British charity Astriid, which connects businesses with professionals who have long-term health problems but who still have many skills to offer.

Andrew Hogarth

Andrew Hogarth

Staffline
CEO

Andrew Hogarth is CEO of Staffline, which supplies up to 35,000 workers daily to more than 1,300 clients. Staffline also provides services to the UK government-funded Welfare to Work and Skills arena. Hogarth has been with the company since 2002. Private equity firm Living Bridge funded the management buyout of the firm in 2000 and introduced Hogarth as finance director. Hogarth helped float the firm on AIM in 2004, became managing director in 2005 and has been chief executive since 2009. He is a certified neuro-linguistic programming coach.