British

Nigel Heap

Nigel Heap

Hays
Regional Managing Director, UK, Ireland, EMEA and Australia/New Zealand

Nigel Heap is regional managing director at Hays, responsible for the UK, Ireland, EMEA and Australia/New Zealand businesses. He joined Hays UK in 1988 as a trainee consultant. By 1997, he was managing director of Hays Australia, and subsequently expanded operations to New Zealand, Hong Kong, China, Japan, Singapore and Malaysia. Heap became managing director of Asia Pacific in 2006 and has been UK & Ireland managing director and chairman of the Asia Pacific business since 2012. In 2017, he assumed responsibility for 11 countries in Europe and the Middle East as well as the UK. In July 2018, Heap appointed a new managing director for Hays’ UK and Ireland business, but he retains responsibility for that region as well as EMEA and Australia/New Zealand businesses on the Hays management board.

Alistair Cox

Alistair Cox

Hays
CEO

Alistair Cox is chief executive of Hays, which had revenue of £3,843 million in its last financial year. He has been CEO since 2007. Before Hays, he was chief executive at Xansa plc from 2002. He is a chartered engineer and has an MBA from the Stanford Business School in California.

Robert Walters

Robert Walters

Robert Walters plc
Chief Executive

After three years at Touche Ross, Robert Walters joined the recruitment firm Michael Page as one of its first employees. Following an eight-year period during which he set up the firm’s New York office, Walters returned to London and established Robert Walters in 1985, specialising in junior- to middle-management professional positions. The company now operates across 28 countries, employs more than 3,800 people and had revenue of £1.2 billion in 2017.

Robert Walters

Robert Walters

Robert Walters plc
Chief Executive

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.

Yasmin Harrison

Yasmin Harrison

Thomas March
COO
British/Iranian

Staffing 100 Europe | 2020

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.

Claire Marsh

Claire Marsh

Impellam Group
CEO, Global Technology Staffing Portfolio
British

Staffing 100 Europe | 2020

Claire Marsh joined Lorien, part of the Impellam Group, in 1998 and has assumed roles of increasing responsibility. In 2019, Marsh was appointed as the CEO for Impellam’s global technology staffing portfolio and North America corporate services. Having relocated to the US city of Atlanta, Georgia, from the UK, Marsh leads Impellam’s IT staffing businesses Lorien, Onezeero and s.com across the US and Europe, using their passion and expertise in tech to create innovative solutions that give customers an edge in attracting and retaining the IT talent they need to build and transform their businesses.

Carmen Watson

Carmen Watson

Pertemps
Chairperson

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

Ged Mason

Ged Mason

Morson Group
CEO

Ged Mason has been at the helm of the business since 1999, taking over from his father, Gerry Mason, who founded the company in 1969. Ged Mason originally joined Morson in 1986, following university and a role within a technical recruiter in Canada. In 2016, he received the Officer of the Order of the British Empire award, for services to engineering and design in the UK. Morson Group was floated on AIM in 2006 and taken private again in 2012. Morson have made a number of strategic acquisitions, including; Wynnwith (2011), Vital Human Resources (2013), The Bridge (IT Recruitment) in 2017 and CTSNA (North America) and Anderselite in 2018.

Peter Searle

Peter Searle

Airswift
CEO

As CEO of Airswift, Peter Searle has more than 28 years of 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 specializes in global workforce solutions for the energy, process and infrastructure industries.

Adrian Gunn

Adrian Gunn

Matchtech Group plc
CEO

Adrian Gunn is CEO of Matchtech Group plc. He was appointed to the board in 2004 as business development director. Gunn became CEO shortly after the group floatedon AIM. He joined Matchtech as a recruitment consultant in 1988. Gunn is a fellow of the Institute of Recruitment Professionals and is a member of the CBI’s Employment and Skills Board.