SI 100 Europe - 2019, British -

Mike Beesley is the CEO of UK-based recruitment organisation Resource Solutions Group, or RSG. Since buying the company with business partner Keith Dawe in 1981, Beesley has taken RSG to new heights, navigating the 2008 recession and a restructuring to a £400 million-plus company as of 2018. His four decades’ industry experience include 20 years in IT recruitment and 20 years in MSP/RPO markets. He joined RSG after earning a business studies degree. Beesley is also the executive chairman of the Bristol Flyers basketball team.

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 - 2015, British -

Steve Russell is group CEO of Bond International Software, a provider of specialist staffing software for recruitment agencies worldwide. During Russell’s career in software development, he has held a number of senior management positions, including group managing director of Scan Data International plc. Russell formed Bond, which then acquired a controlling interest in Bond Associates Ltd. in 1988. On the acquisition of Bond Associates Inc., he became the group’s chief executive, and following a successful flotation on AIM, became CEO. Over the past decade, Russell has spearheaded a number of acquisitions for the Bond Group including FMP Europe in 2014.

SI 100 Europe - 2015, British -

Phillip Ullmann is chief executive officer of the Cordant Group, which had revenue of £720 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.

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Farida Gibbs founded Gibbs Hybrid in 2005 as a globally certified woman-owned and ethnic minority-owned business. She successfully guided the firm through a challenging UK business environment last year, overseeing a management buyout and investing in overseas operations across Dublin, Luxemburg, Poland and the US. Gibbs Hybrid in 2018 won four major contracts with a combined value of £30 million over the next five years that support Fortune 500 clients including a bank, a digital technology company, a multinational biopharmaceutical company and a financial services corporation. Gibbs also sits on the WBE Council’s advisory board for WEConnect International.

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Phaidon International CEO, Harry Youtan understands the importance of being able to adapt with an industry. As demand for talent increases, Youtan has grown and developed Phaidon to better service clients. In the last 12 months, Phaidon, led by Youtan, expanded nine of its 14 offices, adding enough space for 750 additional people to join Phaidon to assist with clients’ ongoing need for talent. Also committed to offsetting carbon emissions, Phaidon has projects in Kenya and Brazil that aim to tackle deforestation and is supporting a wind farm in China.

Staffing 100 Europe | 2022

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Albert Ellis is the CEO of Harvey Nash Group, a global leadership, technology recruitment and IT solutions firm with operations in the USA, mainland Europe and Asia Pacific. With over 25 years of experience in the industry, Ellis has a passion for recruitment and the value top talent can add to growing businesses. Harvey Nash was taken private by its largest shareholder, Dbay Advisors, in a $125 million deal during 2018. The company generated record revenue of over $1.2 billion in 2018 and made two acquisitions during the year. Ellis joined Harvey Nash from Hays in 1998, initially as finance director and later appointed as CEO.

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Ann Swain is chief executive officer of the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo) and, before that, its predecessor, ATSCo. In 1988, she founded Learning Curve, a specialist recruitment training company that was acquired by the Delphi Group in 1997. With more than 30 years’ experience in the recruitment sector, Swain is an authority in the industry, an international speaker, and a passionate advocate for the U.K. staffing sector. She is also the author of the Professional Recruiter’s Handbook.

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Ann Swain has been the CEO of the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo) since 1999 when it was established as a trade body focusing on technology staffing companies. In 2009, the organisation broadened its offering to provide specialist support and a voice for recruitment firms operating in professional staffing sectors in the UK and Asia. Swain has more than 30 years’ recruitment experience, including time as managing director of Learning Curve and UK sales director at Computer People. Swain is a global commentator on professional recruitment trends and a regular speaker at UK and international recruitment conferences.

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Staffing 100 Europe | 2020

Neil Carberry in 2018 became CEO of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, the professional body representing the UK’s £39 billion recruitment industry. Carberry and his team have played a critical role in getting recruiters access to key government support in the ongoing Covid-19 crisis. Before moving to REC, Carberry was managing director for people and infrastructure at the CBI, where he led the work of the UK’s leading business organisation on employment law and relations, the labour market, education and skills, energy, climate and infrastructure. He is a council member of the conciliation service ACAS and was appointed to the Low Pay Commission in 2014.