2014

Alexis de Bretteville

Alexis de Bretteville

Hudson
CEO of Europe

Alexis de Bretteville is Hudson’s CEO of Europe, responsible for the management and operational leadership of the company’s European business. Prior to joining Hudson in 2013, de Bretteville was with Michael Page for more than 20 years, serving most recently as the managing director of the company’s Americas region and as a member of its global executive board. After spending four years helping to grow the company’s French operations into the market leader, he served as managing director of Michael Page Spain, Portugal and South America, and then as regional managing director of Central and Northern Europe.

Volker Enkerts

Volker Enkerts

BAP
President

Volker Enkerts is president of BAP, Germany’s national staffing association. Since 1989, he has owned and operated Hamburg-based FLEX-TIME GmbH. In 1992, Enkerts became a board member of the BZA — BundesverbandZeitarbeit Personal Dienstleistungen (German Association of Private Employment) — and then president in 2004. In 2010/2011, BZA merged with AMP — Arbeitgeberverband Mittelständischer Personaldienstleister (Employers’ Association of Medium-Sized Personnel Services) — to form BAP. He was elected as president after the merger. Enkerts has also been a board member of the BDA, Bundesvereinigung der DeutschenArbeitgeberverbände (Confederation of German Employers’ Associations), since 1998.

Gilles Tanneur

Gilles Tanneur

GroupeCrit
COO

Gilles Tanneur is COO of GroupeCrit; he also manages the North American operations of the group, including the recently acquired U.S. firms that are driving the group’s international growth. Prior to joining GroupeCrit in 2010, Tanneur was president and CEO of the recruitment firm, Brill Street + Company.

Christian Speidel

Christian Speidel

7S Group GmbH
Chairman and CEO

Dr. Christian Speidel is chairman and CEO of 7S Group GmbH, the Germany-based firm ranks on Staffing Industry Analysts’ list of largest global staffing firms. Speidel has also served as managing director of 7S Group since 1997. Prior to 7S, Speidel was chairman at RöderZeltsysteme und Service AG from 1994 to 1996, and he was managing director of Wilh. Ispert AG & Co. KG from 1987 to 1994. Speidel holds a doctorate from the University of Freiburg.

Rosaleen Blair

Rosaleen Blair

Alexander Mann Solutions
CEO

Rosaleen Blair is chief executive officer of Alexander Mann Solutions. She has worked in the recruitment industry since 1990 and established Alexander Mann Solutions as an autonomous division of the Alexander Mann Group in 1996. Blair is widely credited as the pioneer of recruitment process outsourcing in Europe. In 2007, she led the management buyout backed by Graphite Capital and stayed with the firm after it was sold to New Mountain Capital for almost €315 million in 2013.

Jean-Marc Brun

Jean-Marc Brun

GroupeAdequat
CEO

Jean-Marc Brun is the CEO of the French staffing GroupeAdequat, a family-run company that he founded in 1987. He has grown the business to be among the top 10 staffing firms in the French market. In 1999, Brun founded the Domitis network, an innovative structure that enables member staffing companies to provide services nationwide to large accounts.

Yvon Drouet

Yvon Drouet

Synergie
CFO

YvonDrouet is the CFO of Synergie, the fifth-largest staffing firm in France and one of the largest staffing firms in Europe. Publicly listed on NYSE Euronext Paris, the company is expanding rapidly outside its home market.

Margriet Spijker

Margriet Spijker

Timing
General Manager

Margriet Spijker is general manager of Timing, the seventh-largest staffing company in the Netherlands and part of the ADG Group. She joined Timing in 1988 as a consultant, followed by various management positions, up to deputy manager, a role in which she worked alongside Annemarie Laan van Dongen, who retired as general manager in January 2012 after 18 years.

Aart van der Gaag

Aart van der Gaag

ABU
Director

Since 2000, Aart van der Gaag has been director of ABU, the larger of the two Federations of Private Employment Agencies in the Netherlands. He became ABU’s president in May. With long-time experience at the director-level in a number of public and private staffing organisations, he is known as an influential contributor to one of the most mature staffing markets in Europe.

Alistair Cox

Alistair Cox

Hays
CEO

Alistair Cox is chief executive of Hays, which had revenue of £3,697 million in its last financial year. He has been CEO since 2007. Prior to Hays, he was chief executive at Xansa plc from 2002. Cox is also a non-executive director of 3i Group plc. He is a chartered engineer and has an MBA from the Stanford Business School in California.