German

Ingrid Hofmann

Ingrid Hofmann

I.K. Hofmann
CEO and Founder

Ingrid Hofmann is CEO and founder of I.K. Hofmann (also known as Hofmann Personal). Hofmann is a member of the board of BAP, the German national staffing association, and also belongs to the Confederation of German Employers’ Associations (BDA). I.K. Hofmann was awarded the Ludwig Erhard Prize for business excellence in 2010 and holds the Great Place to Work Gold Trust Champion Award for being named a Great Place to Work seven times in a row. Founded in 1985, I.K. Hofmann is one of the largest staffing agencies in Europe and Germany.

Franz-Josef Schürmann

Franz-Josef Schürmann

The Adecco Group
Chief Sales and Innovation Officer

Franz-Josef Schürmann is Adecco’s chief sales and innovation officer, a position he assumed in July 2017. Prior to that, he led Adecco’s Germany, Austria, Switzerland region since January 2016. He started his career at Accenture in 1996. As a member of the German and European leadership teams of Accenture, in 2008 he was named global client partner for several DAX 30 companies. From 2010 to 2015, Schürmann was country head of Germany for Infosys Ltd. He is a board member for AmCham, the American Chamber of Commerce, Germany; and a member of the Senate of Acatech, the national academy of science and engineering, Germany. Schürmann holds a master of science in business administration and agricultural economics from Purdue University in the US, where he studied as a Fulbright scholar.

Andreas Dinges

Andreas Dinges

Adecco Group
Regional head of Germany and Austria

Andreas Dinges became the regional head of the Adecco Group’s Germany and Austriadivision in 2009 and is an executivecommittee member. He joined Adecco in 2006 as CEO of DIS DeutscherIndustrie Service AG. From 2002 to 2006, he was the spokesman of the executiveboard of 3M ESPE AG. He started his career at 3M Company in 1988. Dinges isa commercial judge at the district court in Dusseldorf, Germany. He is a member of the board of the Bundesarbeitgeberverband der Personaldienstleister (BAP), Germany’s national staffing association.

Henry Schirmer

Henry Schirmer

Randstad nv
CFO and Executive Board Member
German

Henry Schirmer joined Randstad as CFO and member of its executive board in 2018; he is responsible for global finance and accounting, business control, M&A, tax, treasury, business risk & audit, investor relations, procurement and legal. Under Schirmer’s financial leadership during the Covid-19 pandemic, Randstad delivered a strong and market-leading performance for the year 2020, and group revenue surpassed 2019 levels in the second quarter of 2021. Schirmer is also a member of the board of directors of General American Investors. He previously served as CFO of Unilever Europe and CFO of Unilever North America.

Staffing 100 Europe | 2021

Martin Roll

Martin Roll

Persona Service
CEO
German

Martin Roll is CEO and president of the board of directors for Persona Service, a personnel service provider with more than 200 branches in Germany. Prior to this, he was managing director and chairman of the management board of AHS Group, an airline-independent ground handling group. He is now managing director at Hannover Airport in Germany. Roll is also chairman of the board of directors of the Gartenkirche (Garden Church) Foundation. Roll, who has a PhD in business management, is also an honorary professor and guest lecturer for air traffic management at Bad Honnef International University.

Staffing 100 Europe | 2021

Henry Schirmer

Henry Schirmer

Randstad NV
CFO and Executive Board Member
German

Staffing 100 Europe | 2020

Henry Schirmer joined Randstad as CFO and member of its executive board in 2018. He is responsible for global finance and accounting, business control, M&A, tax, treasury, business risk and audit, investor relations and legal. In 2019, Randstad achieved record-high free cash flow, providing the opportunity to strengthen its balance sheet and reduce its debt position. Together with a cost optimisation program, this improved its incremental conversion ratio resulting in an EBITA of 4.9% in the last quarter. Schirmer is also a member of the board of directors of General American Investors and the non-profit organisation Results for Development.

Robert von Wülfing

Robert von Wülfing

Amadeus FiRe AG
CEO and Chairman
German

Robert von Wülfing started his professional career in 2000 at Amadeus FiRe, where he initially worked as investor relations manager and assistant to the CFO. Between 2003 and 2007, von Wülfing worked as a senior consultant at Greenwell Gleeson GmbH, a subsidiary of Amadeus FiRe AG. After a short period of freelance work as an interim finance manager and in a leadership role pharmaceutical company Nycomed, von Wülfing returned to Amadeus FiRe AG as CFO; he was appointed CEO in 2019 and chairman of the management board in November 2020. He oversaw full year revenue 2021 growth with increases in the personnel services and training divisions.

Staffing 100 Europe | 2022

Ingrid Hofmann

Ingrid Hofmann

Hofmann Corp.
Founder & CEO
German

Staffing 100 Europe | 2020

Ingrid Hofmann is one of Germany’s most successful temporary work entrepreneurs. She is CEO of Hofmann Corp., parent company of global staffing and recruiting agency I.K. Hofmann (also known as Hofmann Personal), which she founded in 1985 in Nuremberg, Germany. Guided by her philosophy that growth occurs by recommendation, Hofmann Corp. has become the fifth-largest staffing agency in Germany. The company has 19,800 employees in more than 100 international branches located in the US, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.

Franz-Josef Schürmann

Franz-Josef Schürmann

Adecco
Regional head of Germany,
Austria, Switzerland (DACH)

Franz-Josef Schürmann serves as the regional head of Germany, Austria, Switzerland (DACH) for Adecco, a position he has held since January 2016. He started his career at Accenture in 1996. As a member of the German and European leadership teams of Accenture, in 2008 he was named global client partner for several DAX 30 companies. From 2010 to 2015, Schürmann was country head of Germany for Infosys Ltd. He is board director at AmCham, the American Chamber of Commerce and for Bitkom, the German IT and Communications Industry association. He is a member of the Senate of Acatech, the national academy of science and engineering.

Sean Zimdahl

Sean Zimdahl

Allegis Group
President, Allegis Group EMEA

With more than 20 years of recruitment industry experience, Sean Zimdahl is president of Allegis Group’s EMEA operating companies: Aerotek, Aston Carter and TEKsystems. Zimdahl co-founded Aston Carter in 1997 and led a management buy-out in 2007 to Baird Capital Partners Europe; he continued as CEO and the business diversified both by sector and geography. In 2011, the company was acquired by Allegis Group. In 2012, Zimdahl became COO of Allegis Group International, assuming responsibility for integrating the operations across the UK, Europe, Hong Kong and Singapore. In 2013, he became president. In December 2016, Zimdahl oversaw the acquisition of Switzerland-based The Stamford Group. Zimdahl is a past board member of APSCo.