SI 100 Europe Hall of Fame

Oct 29, 2020

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

Stefano Colli-Lanzi is founder and CEO of Gi Group. Founded in 1998, the €2.6 billion firm ranks among the globe’s largest staffing providers, operating in more than 50 countries across Europe, Asia, America and Africa. Gi Group last year acquired OnTime Group, doubling its presence in Germany, and in July entered the US market with the acquisition of CareerArc, based in Los Angeles. In 2011, Colli-Lanzi won the Ambrogino d’Oro award (the “Golden Award”) from Milan; the award is conferred upon distinguished institutions and citizens in appreciation of their human and professional merits. Colli-Lanzi is also a professor of business administration at University Cattolica in Milan.

Sep 23, 2022

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Staffing 100 Europe | Hall of Fame | 2022

An international businessman, philanthropist, author and pollster, Lord Michael Ashcroft has had varied and substantial business interests around the world in public and private companies. In staffing, he has held a majority interest in Impellam Group, a £2.26 billion UK-based staffing firm; he was named non-executive chairman of the firm in 2014.

He is a former treasurer and deputy chairman of the Conservative Party in the UK, the honourary chairman and former treasurer of the International Democrat Union and a Privy Council member. In the UK, he is the founder and chair of trustees of both Crimestoppers and the Ashcroft Technology Academy and chancellor of Anglia Ruskin University.

In April, he announced his intention to divest his shares of Impellam as he restructures his assets to focus on philanthropic and other activities.

Oct 29, 2020

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Staffing 100 Europe | Hall of Fame | 2020

Denis Waxman retired in 2007 as CEO of UK-based Hays plc. He joined the staffing industry from a career in accounting with the 1968 launch of his own staffing firm, Career Care Group. The company served as Hays’ door into the staffing industry when the latter acquired it in 1986; Hays was founded in 1867 as an operator of wharves and warehouses on the River Thames. Waxman stayed on as managing director of the recruitment business, and moved up the ranks to become CEO in 2004. Hays plc is the sixth-largest staffing firm in the world.

Oct 29, 2020

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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 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 29, 2020

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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.

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 29, 2020

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Staffing 100 Europe | Hall of Fame | 2020

Claude Guedj, chairman and CEO of French staffing firm Groupe Crit, is a pioneer and innovator in the staffing industry. He founded the company in 1962 when it was known as Industrial and Technical Research Centre, an office of studies and calculations serving the mechanical, electrical and computer industries. With 2019 revenue of €2.49 billion, Groupe Crit is the 19th-largest staffing firm in the world, according to SIA. It now has nearly 600 offices operating under different brands serving 30,000 corporate customers in 13 countries.

Claude Guedj pass away in February 2022