SI 100 Europe Hall of Fame

Oct 29, 2020

Staffing 100 Europe | Hall of Fame | 2020

Sir Alec Reed in 1960 founded Reed, the largest family-run recruitment business in the world. In 1972, he founded Reed Business School, a residential training centre for accountants and the only business school to specialise in recruitment. In 1995, he and his son James founded UK job board reed.co.uk and in 1998 created Reed in Partnership, which has helped more than 150,000 unemployed people into work. Sir Reed has set up a number of charities including The Big Give, which has raised over £125 million for worthy causes, Reed Foundation, Womankind and Ethiopiaid. He has written several books and was knighted in 2011 for his service to business and charity.

Oct 29, 2020

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Staffing 100 Europe | Hall of Fame | 2020

Managing director of the World Employment Confederation since 2005, Denis Pennel promotes the interests of the staffing industry at the global level. The WEC comprises 49 national federations and six global workforce solutions companies. Under his leadership, the WEC announced in June it would lead the “Safely Back to Work” alliance launched by Randstad, The Adecco Group and ManpowerGroup. A work futurist, he is a keynote speaker and has written many opinion pieces and several books, including The Ego Revolution at Work (2015) and Travail, la soif de liberte, which translates to Work, the thirst for freedom (2017). Prior to the WEC, he was corporate communications director for Manpower France from 1998 to 2005.

Oct 29, 2020

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Staffing 100 Europe | Hall of Fame | 2020

Robert Walters established specialist professional recruitment consultancy Robert Walters in 1985 in London. The £1.22 billion Robert Walters Group now comprises three specialist brands providing recruitment consultancy, staffing, recruitment process outsourcing and managed services. The company operates across 31 countries and employs more than 3,700 people. Walters began his career with Touche Ross, and in 1978 he joined the recruitment firm Michael Page, where he set up its New York office before returning to London to found his own business. In 2015, the company’s operations were certified as 100% Carbon Balanced worldwide by the World Land Trust. In 2020, the group pledged to plant a tree for every permanent candidate it placed.

Sep 23, 2022

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Staffing 100 Europe | Hall of Fame | 2022

Carmen Watson is chair of Pertemps Network Group, a £1 billion UK recruitment business that has achieved three-star world-class status in the Large Best Companies (formerly Sunday Times) award for 16 consecutive years for its employee engagement.

Watson was presented this year with an honorary doctorate from Aston University for her contribution to the development of employment opportunities for people from all sectors of the community.

She is a member of Aston University’s advancement board and works with the leadership team of Business in the Community. She also is trustee and chair of the Women in Business Patrons’ group for the Lord Mayor of Birmingham’s Charity, sits on the West Midlands Regional Council and is a member of CBI’s Changing Workforce and Skills committees working to create thriving regions and nations.

Oct 29, 2020

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Staffing 100 Europe | Hall of Fame | 2020

Ann Swain is global CEO of APSCo, an international trade body she founded in 1999 that represents the professional recruitment sector in the UK, Germany, Singapore and Australia. Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, APSCo actively advocated for the industry in regard to government policy developments. In order to support recruitment business growth during these difficult times, Swain and the APSCo team launched a number of initiatives during lockdown, including AdvisorLink — a service to connect recruitment firms with some of the sector’s best business growth experts and non-executive directors. A platform speaker at UK and international recruitment conferences, Swain co-authored the Professional Recruiter’s Handbook and chaired the European team in the popular Top Recruiter documentary series.

Oct 8, 2021

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Staffing 100 Europe | Hall of Fame | 2021

Jacques van den Broek is CEO and chair of the executive board of Randstad, the world’s largest staffing firm. Active in 38 markets, Randstad helped nearly 2 million candidates find meaningful jobs in 2020. After graduating in law, van den Broek held a management positions with an international trading company before joining Randstad in 1988. He joined Randstad’s executive board in 2004 and has been in his current role since 2014. During the pandemic, van den Broek spearheaded the “Safely back to Work” alliance and launched Randstad’s #newways program to help clients work and operate safely and efficiently. Randstad also seamlessly moved people from declining sectors to those in high demand through reskilling and redeployment and providing governments with essential healthcare workers.

Oct 8, 2021

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Staffing 100 Europe | Hall of Fame | 2021

Alain Dehaze is CEO of the Adecco Group, a role he has held since 2015. Adecco ranks No. 2 on SIA’s Largest Global Staffing Firms list. A Belgian national, Dehaze joined the Adecco Group in 2009. He has served on the board of the Global Apprenticeship Network (GAN) as well as serving as its chairman. Dehaze was VP of the board of the World Employment Confederation Europe and member of the board of the World Employment Confederation between 2010 and 2015. From 2017 to 2019, he was a member of the ILO Global Commission on the Future of Work.

Sep 23, 2022

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Staffing 100 Europe | Hall of Fame | 2022

For nearly 18 years, Steve Ingham CBE has served as CEO of PageGroup, a global business with over 8,500 people working across the four core brands in 37 countries. Always a proponent of DE&I agendas at PageGroup, Ingham became particularly focused on raising the profile of disability in the workplace after becoming a wheelchair user following a near-fatal skiing accident in 2019. As evidence of wholly integrating DE&I into everything the company does, PageGroup was awarded the Clear Assured Gold Standard. In 2022, Ingham was awarded a CBE, or Commander of the British Empire, for his services to business and people with disabilities.

Ingham in April 2022 announced his planned retirement; as of this writing, his successor has not been named.

Oct 29, 2020

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Staffing 100 Europe | Hall of Fame | 2020

In 1964, industry pioneer Philippe Foriel-Destezet founded Ecco, which by the 1980s had become France’s largest supplier of temporary personnel. In 1996, Foriel-Destezet merged the firm with Switzerland-based global giant Adia to form Adecco, which today is the second-largest staffing firm in the world, providing temporary staffing, permanent placement and outsourcing across all sectors. Foriel-Destezet served as co-chair with Adia’s Klaus Jacobs until stepping down in in 2005; he was named honorary president in 2006. Foriel-Destezet is a graduate of the prestigious HEC business school in Paris. He remains a significant shareholder in Adecco through his Luxembourg holding company, Akila Finance.

Oct 29, 2020

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Staffing 100 Europe | Hall of Fame | 2020

Anne Heraty has been CEO of Cpl Resources plc since founding the company in 1989. Ireland’s largest recruitment company now counts 21 brands and 48 offices across Ireland, the UK and Central Eastern Europe, with newly established offices in Munich and the US city of Boston. Revenue increased 8% year over year to €564.9 million in 2019 and gross profit rose 16% to €96.3 million. Heraty in 2018 helped launch Open Doors, a group focused on increasing access to the labour market for marginalised groups and in 2019 was awarded the Hall of Fame Award at the 2019 TALiNT International Annual Recruitment Awards.