SI 100 Europe - 2019, British -

Steve Ingham is CEO of PageGroup, one of the largest global staffing firms. Ingham joined the company in 1987 — when it was still known as Michael Page — as a consultant. He became operating director in 1990 and was appointed to progressively larger roles until becoming CEO in 2006. The group now employs 7,500 people in 36 countries and in 2018 reported more than £800 million in gross profit. Ingham ranked in Glassdoor’s Top CEO list for 2018. The company has also won a number of awards, including recently the Most Socially Engaged Staffing Agency on LinkedIn and Britain’s Most Admired Companies Award in the Support Services, People and Places sector category.

SI 100 Europe - 2017, British -

Nicola McQueen has worked in the recruitment industry for 19 years, joining Capita as a recruitment consultant in 1999. By 2010, she was appointed as managing director of Capita Resourcing and significantly grew the business, launching new services internationally and integrating strategic acquisitions to enhance the existing proposition.

In 2016, McQueen was appointed as executive director of the Workplace Services division, which includes all HR and recruitment businesses and responsibilities for the Recruiting Partnering Project — Capita’s partnership with the MOD to recruit into the British Army.

Earlier this year, McQueen led a management buyout of Capita’s specialist recruitment businesses, Affinity Workforce, now one of the largest privately owned, public service recruitment specialists in the UK.

SI 100 Europe - 2016, British -

Paul Venables has been group finance director of Hays since 2006. He has previously worked at Deloitte and Touche in the US and Exel plc for 13 years before to its purchase by Deutsche Post and DHL Logistics in 2006. 2016

SI 100 Europe - 2022, British -

Ged Mason OBE has been CEO of Morson Group, the UK’s largest engineering staffing firm, since 1999. As one of the most respected names in the industry, Mason has spearheaded the organisation’s success with an entrepreneurial vision, identifying revenue-generating opportunities, driving organic growth and leading strategic acquisitions both in the UK and globally. In recognition for his services to engineering, Mason was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire and received the High Sheriff Special Recognition Award for facilitating specially adapted personal protective equipment for medical staff supporting young people with learning disabilities.

Staffing 100 Europe | 2022

SI 100 Europe - 2022, British -

Kevin Barrow has been advising staffing companies on legal matters since 1990 and has been a partner with international law ­ rm Osborne Clarke LLP since 2010. Most recently, Barrow advised on six large M&A deals in the sector, the globalisation of PEO (professional employer organisation) and employer-of-record models, litigation involving taxi apps and other platforms, the move toward automation of processes, and improvement to UK umbrella operating models. A regular speaker at online industry events, Barrow thrives on moving workforce solutions companies toward platform staffing models and consultancy models along with digital transformation of their businesses and increasing use of AI.

Staffing 100 Europe | 2022

SI 100 Europe - 2020, British -

Staffing 100 Europe | 2020

Alistair Cox is group CEO of global recruitment agency Hays plc, having held that position since 2007. He is a chartered engineer with a degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of Salford. He also holds an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business in California, US. Cox began his career at British Aerospace and eventually moved into staffing, having been appointed chief executive at Xansa plc, the IT outsourcing organisation, before joining Hays. He has also served as a non-executive director at 3i Plc and at Just Eat, and is currently chairman of the British and Irish Modern Music Institute.

SI 100 Europe - 2019, British -

Tim Cook believes that if you put the customer first, all parties will win, and since joining London-based nGAGE Specialist Recruitment as group CEO in April 2013, he has led the board of each company within the group to drive customer-centric, sustainable client relationships that create real shareholder value. Cook has over 30 years of recruitment experience. Prior to nGAGE, he was global head of digital and business innovation at Hays, where he oversaw digital activities in 32 countries. Two nGAGE businesses were named in The Sunday Times Best Companies 2019 list.

SI 100 Europe - 2016, British -

After working in recruitment for Accountancy Selection Ltd. and Badenoch & Clark Ltd., Giles Daubeney joined Robert Walters plc in 1988. From 1990 to 1994 he was based in Amsterdam and was responsible for the group’s Dutch and Belgian operations. Daubeney was appointed to the role of chief operating officer in 1999, and was appointed to the board of Robert Walters plc in July 2000. In January 2016, Daubeney was appointed deputy CEO.