Swiss

Aug 24, 2017

SI 100 Europe - 2017, Swiss -

Bettina Schaller oversees the public affairs activities of The Adecco Group, encompassing regulatory and policy issues and the group’s memberships in employers’ associations at the global and European scale. She is a board member of the World Employment Confederation, VP of WEC Europe and chair of the WEC Europe Public Affairs Committee. She is a member of the B20 Employment and Education Task Force, sits on the OECD Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Committee, supports the GFMD “responsible recruitment” efforts and acts as company focal point for the Global Apprenticeship Network and the World Economic Forum.

Oct 13, 2021

SI 100 Europe - 2021, Swiss -

Bettina Schaller heads the group public affairs activities of The Adecco Group. She is also president of the World Employment Confederation as well as WEC-Europe and has been involved in the governance of the WEC for 10 years. In addition, she is a member of the B20 Employment and Education Task Force; cochair of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Business and Industry Advisory Committee Employment Labour and Social Affairs committee; steering group member on the World Economic Forum Center for New Economy and Society; steering group member of the Global Apprenticeship Network and president of the American Swiss Young Leaders Alumni Foundation.

Staffing 100 Europe | 2021

Oct 29, 2020

SI 100 Europe Hall of Fame - Swiss -

Staffing 100 Europe | Hall of Fame | 2020

Martin Pestalozzi was recruited into the staffing industry by Adia founder Henri-Ferdinand Lavanchy to help lead the company in 1974. Pestalozzi became president and CEO in 1979. During his tenure, Adia purchased more than 85 companies, tripling its size and operating in more than a dozen countries. It reached $1 billion in 1986, claiming the largest share of the market in Switzerland, France and Germany. In 1996, Adia and Ecco — two of the world’s top three personnel services firms — merged to form Adecco. Prior to Adia, Pestalozzi had several years’ experience at US-based consumer services and manufacturing businesses.

Aug 19, 2019

SI 100 Europe - 2019, Swiss -

Viktor Calabrò launched Staff Finder, the on-demand staffing platform now known as Coople, in 2009. With 350,000 registered “Cooplers” and 18,000 registered companies, Coople operates in Switzerland and the UK. Together with the social welfare office in Bern, Switzerland, Calabrò in 2018 spearheaded an initiative to reintroduce welfare recipients and the socially disadvantaged back into the workforce through Coople’s platform. Calabrò and his team are also working with GastroGraubünden, a Swiss hospitality and gastronomy association, to build a single directory of flexible staff for the eastern region. Calabrò is the author of Flexible Workforce, which explores the challenges of the modern workplace.

Oct 10, 2022

SI 100 Europe - 2022, Swiss -

Bettina Schaller heads the group public affairs activities of The Adecco Group and serves as president of the World Employment Confederation, the voice of private employment services worldwide. Active on several economic and labor-market committees, she is vicechair of the Business at OECD ELSA (Employment, Labor and Social Affairs) Committee, a member of the B20 Future of Work and Education Task Force, and a steering group member on the World Economic Forum Center for New Economy and Society. Schaller is a founding member of “The Boardroom,” a Swiss initiative launched in 2021 to drive board diversity and develop a pipeline of future female leaders.

Staffing 100 Europe | 2022

Aug 19, 2019

SI 100 Europe - 2019, British, Swiss -

Charles-Henri Dumon is CEO and co-founder of talent solutions firm Morgan Philips Group. Dumon’s commitment to investing in the latest digital and data-led solutions, and disrupting conventional approaches to talent solutions, led him to launch the firm in 2013. Prior to this he worked for 27 years with Michael Page, where he was a member of the board of directors. Last year, Morgan Philips Group acquired Hudson Global’s recruitment and talent management activities in Europe (except for the Benelux countries) and launched Morgan Philips Hudson Talent Consulting in the UK, France, Spain and Poland.

Oct 8, 2021

SI 100 Europe - 2021, Swiss -

Viktor Calabrò is founder and executive chairman of Coople, an on-demand platform for flexible work. Calabrò actively mentors startups in Switzerland on a variety of topics as board member, advisor, coach or investor. An advocate for the Swiss startup ecosystem, his stated goal is to make flexible work a rewarding experience for workers as well as companies optimizing their flexible workforce management.

Staffing 100 Europe | 2021

Oct 15, 2020

SI 100 Europe - 2020, British, Swiss -

Staffing 100 Europe | 2020

Charles-Henri Dumon is CEO and co-founder of talent solutions firm Morgan Philips Group. Dumon’s commitment to investing in the latest digital and data-led solutions, and disrupting conventional approaches to talent solutions, led him to launch the firm in 2013. Prior to this, he worked for 27 years with Michael Page where he was managing director – continental Europe and the Americas, and a board member. In 2018, Morgan Philips Group acquired Hudson Global’s recruitment and talent management activities in Europe (except for the Benelux countries) and launched Morgan Philips Hudson Talent Consulting in the UK, France, Spain and Poland.

Aug 30, 2018

SI 100 Europe - 2018, British, Swiss -

Charles-Henri Dumon founded Morgan Philips in 2013. In 2018, the group acquired Hudson Global’s recruitment and talent management activities in Europe (except for the Benelux countries). Dumon also this year announced plans to create a talent management consulting firm, Morgan Philips Hudson Talent Consulting, in the UK, France, Spain and Poland. Prior to founding the Morgan Philips Group, he worked for 27 years with Michael Page, first as a consultant with Michael Page UK before moving up to leadership positions with Michael Page France and Michael Page International, where he was a member of the board of directors. He left Michael Page in 2013 as managing director of Continental Europe and the Americas.

Aug 18, 2019

SI 100 Europe - 2019, Swiss -

As a board member of the World Employment Confederation, Bettina Schaller was appointed president of the WEC Europe in December 2017. She also oversees the public affairs activities of The Adecco Group. Schaller is also a member of the B20 Employment and Education Task Force; sits on the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development’s Employment, Labor and Social Affairs committee; sits as steering group member on the World Economic Forum Center for New Economy and Society; acts as company focal point for the Global Apprenticeship Network; and is the president of the American Swiss Young Leaders Alumni Foundation.