Meet the 2022 influencers in the €206 billion European staffing market. This list, compiled by SIA, includes entrepreneurs, CEOs, reformers, lawyers and businesspeople with a wide range of skills and accomplishments who hail from a multitude of staffing markets in the region. We also welcome four new inductees to the Staffing 100 Europe Hall of Fame, which comprises pioneers and champions whose indelible impact is at the core of the industry’s evolution. These lists are not a ranking, but a shout-out to those who have made a difference in the world of work.
Sebastian Lazay

Sebastian Lazay

Earlier this year, Sebastian Lazay was elected president of the Federal Employers’ Association of Staffing Services (BAP) in Germany for the third time. He was first appointed to this role in 2017 after having served as vice president since 2011. Lazay is also managing director of the Hamburg-based staffing firm Extra-Personalservice GmbH and has been(…)

Dimitri Yocarini

Dimitri Yocarini

Dimitri Yocarini is CEO and a majority shareholder of Olympia, the seventh-largest staffing firm in the Netherlands. He is also a board member of the Dutch Federation of Private Employment Agencies (ABU). Yocarini and the ABU board last year published research into the future of work in the Netherlands and what the labour market would(…)

Alexis de Bretteville

Alexis de Bretteville

Alexis de Bretteville has served as deputy CEO of Morgan Philips Group since his former company Hudson joined the group in 2018. De Bretteville is instrumental in growing the company’s international presence and digital innovation offerings for its customers in talent management, executive search and middle management recruitment. In 2021, the group launched an application(…)

Philippe Gobinet

Philippe Gobinet

President and CEO Philippe Gobinet has led Partnaire Group, France’s oldest temporary employment firm, since 1987. With revenue of over €472 million, Partnaire Group has 630 employees placing 62,000 temporary workers through 180 branches throughout France. Gobinet’s leadership has enabled Partnaire Group to succeed as well as acquire Inter Conseil in 2018. Gobinet has also(…)

Francesco Baroni

Francesco Baroni

As country manager, Italy of Gi Group Holding, Francesco Baroni ensures the group’s brands collaborate to create a global labour market for temporary and permanent staffing solutions, including training, HR administration and consulting, outsourcing and career transition. The first Italian employment agency, Gi Group has over 650 branches in 30 countries across Europe, Asia and(…)

Mike Barnard

Mike Barnard

CEO since 2019, Mike Barnard has led Acacium Group through its next phase of expansion across workforce solutions. Formerly known as Independent Clinical Services Group, Acacium Group provides staffing, managed services and innovative delivery models to health and social care systems and the life sciences industry. Prior to joining Acacium Group, Barnard held executive positions(…)