Andrew Hogarth is CEO of Staffline, which had revenue of £416 million in its latest financial year. He has been with the company since 2002. ISIS funded the buy in/management buyout of the firm in 2000 and introduced Hogarth as finance director. Hogarth helped float the firm on AIM in 2004 and has been chief executive since 2003. He is a certified neuro-linguistic programming coach.
Ged Mason is CEO of Morson, a U.K.-based technical staffing firm. He joined the company in 1986 and took over as managing director in 1999 from his father, Gerry Mason (see separate entry), with backing from Barclays Private Equity. The company was floatedon AIM in 2006 and taken private again in 2012.
Yasmin Harrison is COO of Thomas March, providing £100 million of high-volume temporary staffing through more than 200 locations across the UK. Her role is to ensure operational excellence across their high profile client portfolio which use in excess of 10,000 contingent and permanent staff a week. Harrison previously worked for the neutral vendor, GRI, and FTSE 100 outsourcer, Capita. She has over 12 years’ experience in high-volume and specialist staffing in various sectors. Over the last year she has launched technology-led productivity and staff retention models to optimise supply chain performance.
As group managing director at Rullion, one of the largest recruitment companies in the UK, from October 2018 until July 2020, Melanie Forbes helped ensure Rullion’s growth by assessing the company’s products and services and building value with a long-term strategy. With over 25 years of experience, Forbes is an expert in managed service, recruitment process outsourcing, and staffing. She is an active member of the Recruitment Industry Disability Initiative along with being on the leadership team of Ambitious about Autism. Forbes is driven by constant improvement and thrives on ensuring that the recruitment industry stands inclusive and diverse.
James Saoulli is CEO of Rullion, a role he took in 2017. Over the past two years he has overseen the transformation of Rullion, which has included launching several programmes to modernise and help to enable continued business growth. Saoulli has previously held leadership roles in Rullion Management Services and Rullion Solutions, a managed service and technology arm that he helped launch. Prior to his current role as CEO, Saoulli was group board director of the company where he coordinated strategy, sales and marketing. In 2018, the company launched a new specialist Talent Consultancy division. Rullion ranked fourth on SIA’s list of the largest engineering staffing firms in the UK.
Phillip Ullmann is seeking systemic change and a new vision for capitalism as “chief energiser” at Cordant Group. He has led the company for 23 years and in 2017 converted Cordant to a social enterprise focused on putting people before profit and influencing the world of work to help people lead more meaningful lives. Last year, the company influenced some of its large clients to adopt a living wage rather than a minimum wage. It also rolled out apprenticeships and supported a significant amount of work to eliminate modern slavery. The group had revenue of more than £870 million and placed 125,000 workers last year, mostly in minimum wage roles.
Carmen Watson is chair of Pertemps Network Group, a £1 billion UK recruitment business that has achieved three-star world-class status in the Large Best Companies (formerly Sunday Times) award for 16 consecutive years for its employee engagement.
Watson was presented this year with an honorary doctorate from Aston University for her contribution to the development of employment opportunities for people from all sectors of the community.
She is a member of Aston University’s advancement board and works with the leadership team of Business in the Community. She also is trustee and chair of the Women in Business Patrons’ group for the Lord Mayor of Birmingham’s Charity, sits on the West Midlands Regional Council and is a member of CBI’s Changing Workforce and Skills committees working to create thriving regions and nations.
CEO of Morson Group since 1999, Ged Mason is responsible for strategy and commercial performance along with critical staff resourcing strategy. A key client liaison, he promotes the group’s core values and brand development. With offices in Italy, South Africa, Toronto, Texas and Australia and 1,000- plus staff throughout, the £900 million firm has developed a solid track record for providing staffing solutions to many of the world’s leading companies. By retaining the legacy of Morson’s history, the group has raised more than £2 million since 2006, supporting more than 100 charities. Morson Group was founded by Mason’s father, Gerry Mason.
James Reed is chairman of Reed Global. Founded in 1960, it now has more than 3,000 employees working in 140 locations worldwide. During the Covid-19 crisis, Reed co-launched the Keep Britain Working campaign to preserve jobs and donated £100,000 to the National Emergencies Trust Covid Appeal, matched by a £100,000 donation from the Reed Foundation made via The Big Give. He joined the company in 1992 after graduating from Harvard Business School. Reed is also a published author and has written The 7 Second CV, Why You? and 101 Interview Questions You’ll Never Fear Again; he also co-authored Put Your Mindset to Work.
As CEO of PageGroup, Steven Ingham oversees a £1.28 billion global business with a headcount of almost 7,000 employees across 36 countries. Ingham has witnessed PageGroup’s people-first culture being strengthened by successfully adapting to volatile market and cultural changes as well as delivering a threefold increase in turnover and profits. He has continued to reshape what PageGroup is as a business and the opportunities it can create. Since becoming a wheelchair user after a near-fatal skiing accident in March 2019, Ingham increased focus on unlocking hidden talent, enabling employers to nurture diverse workforces built on an inclusive, winning mindset.
