SI 100 Europe - 2021, British -

Kelvin Stagg joined PageGroup plc in 2006 and currently serves as its CFO. In 2017, Stagg and his team launched Page Outsourcing to operate in recruitment process outsourcing and as a managed service programme, leveraging the geographic and discipline breadth the Group already enjoys. With significant international, compliance, change management, large teams and systems experience across almost every finance discipline, Stagg plans to leverage the vast advances PageGroup has made in its data usage as a user services platform. Additionally, Stagg is a member of the Professional Business Services Council.

Staffing 100 Europe | 2021

SI 100 Europe - 2014, British -

Johnathan Johnson is the chief executive officer of Fircroft. Johnson joined Fircroft in 1997 as a consultant and was promoted to operations director for the IT, commercial and rail sectors in 2001. Since taking the helm in 2005 from his father and company founder John Johnson, he has overseen the global expansion of the company. Fircroft now operates in more than 60 countries and reported an annual turnover of £898 million in 2013. Johnson was awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2011 in the globalisation category.

SI 100 Europe - 2020, British -

Staffing 100 Europe | 2020

A chartered accountant and also US qualified, Paul Venables was appointed group finance director of Hays plc in 2006 and has helped transform the company into a preeminent global specialist recruitment business with operations in 33 countries. He started his career at Deloitte & Touche as senior manager in its US practice. This was followed by a 13-year career at Exel plc where he held a number of senior finance and operational roles, including deputy group finance director, and was a member of Exel plc’s executive board and chairman of its acquisitions and project review board.

SI 100 Europe - 2019, British -

Mark Dorman became CEO of global STEM recruitment company SThree plc in March 2019. He joined SThree from McGraw Hill Education, where, as president of higher education, international and professional for five years, he increased the market share of the business and improved profitability. Prior to joining McGraw Hill, he was VP of Wolters Kluwer’s legal markets group and then CEO of Wolters Kluwer Law & Business. He also spent three years in the British Army’s Corps of Royal Military Police, before going on to hold senior roles at LexisNexis UK, where he was head of strategy, and Gartner Inc., where he was head of global product management.

SI 100 Europe - 2019, British -

Simon Blockley is CEO of Guidant Global, the specialist recruitment outsourcing business of UK staffing firm Impellam Group. He joined Guidant in 2014, becoming managing director in 2017. In October 2018, Impellam merged its US and UK talent acquisition and managed solutions businesses — rebranding them as Guidant Global. Following the merger, Blockley became CEO in January 2019, overseeing the brand on a global basis. Guidant Global provides more than 220,000 contingent worker assignments in the field on behalf of 100-plus clients across 80 countries.

SI 100 Europe - 2022, 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.

Staffing 100 Europe | 2022

SI 100 Europe - 2014, British -

Robert Walters is chief executive of the firm bearing his name. After three years at Touche Ross & Co., Walters joined the recruitment firm Michael Page as one of its first employees. After an eight-year period, which included setting up the firm’s New York office, he returnedto London and established Robert Walters in 1985, specialising in junior to middle management professional positions. Robert Walters plc now has 53 offices in 24 countries.

SI 100 Europe - 2015, British -

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

SI 100 Europe - 2018, British -

As chief commercial officer of Alexander Mann Solutions, Matthew Rodger is responsible for the performance of the Advanced Workforce Solutions division containing AMS’s most complex outsourcing arrangements. He is also accountable for the commercialisation of all products, services and partnerships and for corporate M&A activity. Rodger joined AMS in 2001 as sales director and has held a number of roles including COO APAC and managing director, contingent workforce solutions. He was recognised by the Association of Professional Staffing Companies for Outstanding Contribution in 2012 for championing APSCode, the RPO and MSP code of conduct. His 27-year staffing sector career started with an IT recruitment business where he became the UK sales director.