SI 100 Europe - 2016, British -

Peter Searle has more than 28 years’ experience in recruitment having held managing director and chief executive positions with the Delphi Group, Ajilon and Adecco UK and Ireland. He is heavily involved in educational initiatives and was asked to appear on the UK government’s select committee for education in 2013. Searle has won multiple awards including a lifetime achievement award for his services to recruitment. In 2016, Searle became the CEO of the newly formed Airswift — following the merger of Air Energi and Swift Worldwide Resources — which specialises in global workforce solutions for the energy, process and infrastructure industries.

SI 100 Europe - 2021, British -

Since joining TRS Staffing Solutions more than 20 years ago, Martin Foulser has held positions of increasing responsibility, including five years in the US leading its North American operations. He currently serves as group managing director and VP of Fluor Corp. Foulser has played a leading role in building TRS into a global player with more than 19 global offices and a contracted workforce of 5,000-plus professionals. TRS specialises in the support of some of the world’s largest and most challenging engineering projects, supplying professional engineering and construction personnel through the entire project life cycle.

Staffing 100 Europe | 2021

SI 100 Europe - 2015, British -

Kevin Green is chief executive of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC), the professional body for the UK’s £26.5 billion recruitment industry. Green joined the REC in 2008, having been HR director at Royal Mail, where he was responsible for all people related issues for the business with its 165,000 employees. The REC is committed to raising recruitment standards and highlighting excellence throughout the industry. It represents 3,506 corporate members and 4,744 individual members within the Institute of Recruitment Professionals (IRP), all of whom must abide by a code of professional practice.

SI 100 Europe - 2018, British -

A USA-qualified chartered accountant, Paul Venables started his career at Deloitte & Touche, where he was a senior manager in its USA 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 the executive board of Exel plc and chairman of its Acquisitions and Project Review Board. Following the acquisition of Exel plc by Deutsche Post, Venables worked in its DHL Logistics division before joining Hays plc. Venables was also senior independent nonexecutive director of Wincanton plc. until July 2015.

SI 100 Europe - 2018, British -

CEO of Affinity Workforce, Nicola McQueen has worked in the recruitment industry for more than 20 years, first joining Hays then moving to Capita. 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. Last year, McQueen led a management buyout of Capita’s specialist recruitment businesses, forming Affinity Workforce, now one of the largest privately owned public service recruitment specialists in the UK.

SI 100 Europe - 2020, British -

Staffing 100 Europe | 2020

Martin Foulser is the group managing director of TRS Staffing Solutions and a VP of Fluor Corp. Since joining TRS more than 20 years ago, he has held previous positions of increasing responsibility, including five years in the US leading its North American operations. Foulser has played a leading role in building TRS into the global player it is today, with more than 19 global offices and a contracted workforce of 5,000-plus professionals. TRS specialises in the support of some of the world’s largest and most challenging engineering projects, supplying professional engineering and construction personnel through the entire project life cycle.

SI 100 Europe - 2019, British -

Simon Coton has been with NES Global Talent for over 20 years and in that time has built up a wealth of experience across the workforce spectrum. He has led NES operations as COO since 2008 and oversees the entire global recruitment function. Coton has been a key part of the executive team, delivering the sale of NES to AEA investors in 2012 and securing six acquisitions since 2014. Under Coton’s leadership, NES Global Talent has expanded its overseas operations to 58 locations and grown its turnover to over $1 billion.

SI 100 Europe - 2017, British -

Oliver Watson is an executive board director for the PageGroup. He joined the company as a consultant in London in 1995 and was appointed director of Michael Page UK Sales in 1997, then managing director in 2002. In 2006, he was appointed regional managing director for Michael Page UK sales, marketing and retail. In 2009, Watson became regional managing director for Michael Page UK finance, marketing and sales, Middle East, Scotland and Ireland. He is now responsible for PageGroup’s operations in the UK, US, Canada, Middle East and South Africa.