Staffing 100 Europe | 2020

Nigel Heap is managing director EMEA and UK and Ireland, chairman Asia Pacific for Hays, the sixth-largest staffing firm in the world with global revenue of €6.5 billion. Heap has been a member of the Hays management board for many years and is responsible for 16 of the 33 countries in Hays. He joined Hays UK in 1988 as a trainee consultant. A few promotions later, in 2012, Heap was appointed UK & Ireland managing director and chairman of the Asia Pacific business, and in 2017 he was appointed managing director of 12 countries in the EMEA region.