2014

Sep 30, 2014

SI 100 Europe - 2014, Italian -

Luigi Brugnaro is president of Italian staffing firm Umana Holdings. In 1986, at age 25, he founded Everap, a provider of commercial networks, which he still co-owns. In 1997, he founded Umana, which today has more than 700 employees and 114 branches. From 2009 to 2013, he was president of Confindustria Venice (Italian employers’ federation). In October 2012 he was elected president of Assolavoro, the Italian National Association for Employment Agencies. In 2006, he bought S.S.D. Reyer Venezia Mestre, the oldest basketball sports club in Italy.

Oct 4, 2014

SI 100 Europe - 2014, French -

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.

Oct 4, 2014

SI 100 Europe - 2014, British -

James Kelly joined technology recruitment specialist Lorien Resourcing as CEO in August 2008. He has successfully guided Lorien through a period of rapid growth during which revenues increased from £147 million to £296 million and both contract and permanent placement numbers have doubled. With Lorien, Kelly has sold and delivered large-scale managed service and recruitment process outsource solutions for the likes of Fujitsu, Monitise, Phoenix and KPMG. Lorien currently has more than 200 staff members.

Sep 30, 2014

SI 100 Europe - 2014, Belizean, British -

Lord Michael Ashcroft, KCMG PC, is a successful businessman, philanthropist and former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party between 2005 and 2010. His many business interests include U.K. staffing firm Impellam, which had revenue of £1.2 billion in its last financial year. In 2010 his 57 percent holding, via the Lombard Trust, was transferred to his children and “remoter issue.” According to The Sunday Times, his personal fortune is estimated to be more than €1 billion, half of which he has pledged to donate to charity.

Oct 4, 2014

SI 100 Europe - 2014, German -

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.

Oct 4, 2014

SI 100 Europe - 2014, Italian -

Alessandro Ramazza is president of ObiettivoLavoro, the fifth-largest Italian staffing firm. Before becoming president in 2005, he was director of the human resources groups CMC of Ravenna and then Rodano consortium of Reggio Emilia. ObiettivoLavoro has more than 800 employees and 172 branches offices (160 in Italy and 12 in other parts of Europe and South America). Ramazza has a degree in business economics and a master’s from the London Business School.

Sep 30, 2014

SI 100 Europe - 2014, French -

François Béharel is president and CEO of Randstad for France. He joined VediorBis in 1999 as a regional director in the North of France. He had just become CEO of the Vedior group in France when he was appointed president and CEO of the newly combined Randstad Group France in 2009. In 2012, the supervisory board of Randstad appointed Béharel to the executiveboard for an initial four-year term.

Oct 3, 2014

SI 100 Europe - 2014, French -

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.

Oct 4, 2014

SI 100 Europe - 2014, Swedish -

Jonas Prising took the helm of ManpowerGroup Inc. in May 2014. Prior to that, Prising oversaw all aspects of ManpowerGroup’s €9 billion business in North, Central and South America and Southern Europe. Prisingjoined ManpowerGroup in 1999 and previously served as managing director of Manpower Italy; director of Manpower Global Accounts— Europe, Middle Eastand Africa; and president, North America. Before joining the company, Prising worked for Electrolux, a Swedish multinational. Prising also serves on the board of directors for Junior Achievement Worldwide and speaks five languages: English, French, German, Swedish and Italian.

Oct 3, 2014

SI 100 Europe - 2014, Belgian -

Patrick De Maeseneire rejoined the Adecco Group as CEO in 2009. He had held leading positions within the Adecco Group between 1998 and 2002, starting as country manager for the Benelux region before leading the Adecco Group’s worldwide professional staffing business from New York. De Maeseneire served as CEO of Barry Callebaut from 2002 to 2009 and in 2007, he was granted the title of Baron by King Albert II of Belgium. From 1980 to 1997, De Maeseneire held executive positions at Sun International and Apple Computer, as well as senior positions at Wang in Belgium and Arthur Andersen Consulting.