SI 100 Europe

Oct 15, 2020

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Staffing 100 Europe | 2020

Christophe Catoir was appointed by The Adecco Group as regional head of France and Northern Europe in February 2019 and this year assumed executive oversight of the company’s UK and Ireland general staffing business. A member of the executive committee since 2015, Catoir joined Groupe Adecco France as internal auditor in 1995. By 2005, he was appointed head of permanent placement activities in France, and became a member of the Groupe Adecco France management team in 2007. In 2009, Catoir was appointed managing director of Adecco South-East France and in 2012 took over as managing director for Professional Staffing Groupe Adecco France.

Aug 18, 2019

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As CEO of Impellam Group’s UK-based technology staffing firm Lorien, and its sister company Onezeero, Claire Marsh has led the organisations through an intense recent period of growth and continues to expand by providing bespoke MSP and RPO talent solutions to organisations that see technology as a differentiator. Over the last 18 months, Lorien expanded into Ireland and the DACH region of Germany, Austria and Switzerland to support businesses’ overseas operations, and also launched an all-encompassing Statement of Work solution.

Oct 12, 2021

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As the senior managing director, Central Europe and France, at Robert Half, Sven Hennige is building up the managed solutions business, a growing part of the company. He plans to create a unique business model with the advantage of being able to work closely with Protiviti — a global consulting subsidiary of Robert Half — and provide the right temporary, freelance and permanent staff for their projects. He is also a board member of startup companies involved with AI and technology platforms. Hennige is engaged in charity activities that the company organises internally, and he is also active in supporting NGOs.

Staffing 100 Europe | 2021

Sep 23, 2023

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Beginning her career in staffing solutions in 1999, Farida Gibbs in 2005 founded Gibbs Hybrid Ltd., which she leads as CEO. This past year, Gibbs led the merger of Gibbs Hybrid, which is MSDUK-certified as a minority woman-owned business, with New York-based Atrium, amplifying each company’s ability to deliver customised, customer-centric workforce solutions. A champion of DE&I, Gibbs sits on the Council for Women Business Enterprise, is Ambassador for the Minority Supplier Development UK and was appointed to an advisory leadership role for the UK’s supplier diversity workstream within the cabinet office.

Oct 13, 2021

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Executive chairman of Norman Broadbent Group since June 2021, Peter Searle has more than 30 years’ experience in the recruitment sector. Norman Broadbent Group provides board and executive search, senior executive interim management, solutions, research and insight, consulting and recruitment services. Most recently, Searle was executive chairman of Airswift. He has also held leadership roles at Adecco, including chief executive of Adecco UK and Ireland, and Spring Group. Searle has a strong track record within the staffing industry and has enjoyed success within both the private and public markets.

Staffing 100 Europe | 2021

Aug 31, 2018

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Award-winning entrepreneur Viktor Calabrò launched Staff Finder, an on-demand staffing platform, in 2009. The platform, now known as Coople, counts more than 250,000 users in Zurich and London. The company has 120 full-time employees and 10,000 registered clients in the UK and Switzerland. Before he launched the platform, Calabrò worked as a programmer for management tools at UBS and as a consultant for Trivadis, a Swiss IT company, where he focused on process optimisation. In 2003, he launched his first entrepreneurial endeavour, La Folie, a Zurich-based events promotions agency. He was awarded Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst and Young in 2014. In 2016, Coople was listed in the top 10 of the Best Businesses at London Technology Week by Forbes.

Oct 15, 2020

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Staffing 100 Europe | 2020

Nick Dunett is CEO of Resource Solutions. As part of the Robert Walters Group, Resource Solutions has a global footprint across 31 countries and sources and recruits for clients in more than 60 countries. He was managing director of Robert Walters Germany and Switzerland and COO of Resource Solutions before becoming CEO in 2020. To support organisations in dealing with demand-surge during the Covid-19 crisis, Dunett and his team this year launched a new service called Rapidsource, which has helped the NHS fill 600,000 shifts, process more than 50,000 expressions of interest, get 17,500-plus healthcare professionals to work and support 45 new NHS trusts.

Aug 16, 2019

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Federico Vione first joined The Adecco Group in 1999 as branch manager and has held a variety of leadership roles since; in 2019, he was appointed regional head of North America, UK & Ireland General Staffing & Latin America. He has been a member of The Adecco Group’s executive committee since 2009. Prior roles include chief sales and innovation officer from October 2015 to March 2017; regional head of Italy, Eastern Europe & India from 2011 to 2015 (including MENA as of 2012); and regional head of Italy and Eastern Europe from October 2009 to August 2011. Vione served as VP of Assolavoro Italy between 2010 and 2012.

Aug 30, 2018

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Tig Gilliam has been CEO of NES Global Talent, a specialist provider of engineering talent solutions, since 2014. He joined the board in 2013. Prior to NES Global Talent, Gilliam was operating partner for AEA Investors, a private equity firm. From 2007 to 2012, he was regional head and executive committee member of The Adecco Group North America. Earlier in his career, he was a partner at PwC Consulting and IBM Global Business Services, leading the global supply chain management practice. Gilliam is also chairman of New York-based Work Market Inc., a freelance management system used by businesses to manage their independent contractors.

Oct 14, 2021

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In December 2020, Sean Zimdahl became the executive chairman of Digital Futures, a London-based technology services company designed to address the need for diversity in the technology sector and increase the digital skills within the wider UK economy. A longtime veteran of the staffing industry, Zimdahl is responsible for Digital Futures’ strategy, finance, legal and governance. Before moving to Digital Futures, he served 10 years at Allegis Group EMEA, first as COO for EMEA in 2011 and then as president in 2013. He joined Allegis with its acquisition of Aston Carter, where he had been CEO since 2007.