2018

Aug 30, 2018

SI 100 Europe - 2018, Belgian -

Alain Dehaze is CEO of The Adecco Group. After graduating as a commercial engineer at the ICHEC Brussels Management School, Dehaze rose through the ranks at Henkel and ISS. In 2000, he was appointed managing director of Creyf’s Interim in Belgium. Between 2002 and 2009, Dehaze held executive roles at Humares, USG People and Solvus. Dehaze joined The Adecco Group in 2009 as regional head of Northern Europe and was appointed regional head of France in 2011 before becoming CEO in September 2015. Since 2016, Dehaze has been chair of the Global Apprenticeship Network. He is also a member of the ILO Global Commission on the Future of Work; steward of the World Economic Forum System Initiative on Education, Gender and Work; and co-chair of the governors for the WEF’s Professional Services Industry Community. Dehaze was also vice president of the World Employment Confederation Europe.

Aug 30, 2018

SI 100 Europe - 2018, American -

John L. Marshall III has led The Adecco Group’s North America, UK & Ireland, professional staffing region since April 2017. Prior to this, he was the regional head of UK & Ireland from October 2015 to March 2017. Marshall was a practicing attorney with King & Spalding and AT&T before he joined MPS Group in 1998. He joined MPS Group as deputy general counsel with an emphasis on acquisitions and public company reporting. He was promoted to president of Special Counsel in 2001 and named president of Accounting Principals in 2006. Adecco Group named Marshall president of its US finance, office and legal business unit after it acquired MPS Group in 2010.

Aug 30, 2018

SI 100 Europe - 2018, Belgian -

Mark De Smedt has been the The Adecco Group’s regional head of Northern Europe since January 2016, leading also Germany, Austria and Switzerland as part of the same region as of July 2017. He joined The Adecco Group in 2009 as country manager for Belgium & Luxembourg. He was previously managing partner of professional staffing specialist XPE Group. Prior to this, he was responsible for The Adecco Group’s Benelux operations between 2002 and 2007. Before joining staffing, De Smedt held various executive positions at Wang, Apple, Citibank, and Scoot in France, Spain and Belgium.

Aug 30, 2018

SI 100 Europe - 2018, French -

Jean-Philippe Papin is founder and CEO of the French staffing firm Leader Intérim. The company was founded in 1992 and has seen double-digit annual growth since its inception. Leader Intérim is among the top 10 staffing firms in France, providing temporary workers, permanent recruitment services and training. The company entered the Swiss market in 2014 with the acquisition of Max Studer Intérim. Leader Intérim also has operations in Luxembourg and Portugal. In 2017, Leader Intérim reported €430 million in sales.

Aug 30, 2018

SI 100 Europe - 2018, French -

Thibault Lefebvre was appointed CEO of Grafton Recruitment Group in 2015, managing strategy, performance and organisation of Grafton Recruitment’s permanent and temporary businesses across all its locations. He was previously CEO of the Grafton Recruitment brand. Prior to Grafton Recruitment Group, Thibault held key managerial roles at PageGroup, including as managing director for Eastern Europe for the Michael Page and Page Personnel brands as well as managing director at PageGroup for Russia, Switzerland and Central and Eastern Europe for nine years. He previously held key financial roles at Richemont, Gucci, Parisot Group and Valeo.

Aug 30, 2018

SI 100 Europe - 2018, Irish -

Anne Heraty is CEO of Cpl Resources plc., a provider of workforce solutions, specialist recruitment, managed services and outsourcing. The company has annual turnover of more than €455 million, more than 670 traditional employees and a weekly average of more than 12,000 temp/contract staff under management in customer sites. Cpl has grown through both strong organic growth and strategic acquisitions. Most recently, Heraty was recognised as the Business & Finance “Business Person of the Year 2014” and Cpl was ranked as “Best Place to Work 2016” in the large organisation category. Heraty is the president of the Irish Business and Employers Confederation and the chair of the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Awards in Ireland.

Aug 29, 2018

SI 100 Europe - 2018, British -

James Saoulli was appointed CEO of Rullion in 2017. Prior to his role as CEO, Saoulli was group board director of the company; before that, he held leadership roles in Rullion Solutions and Rullion Management Services. Prior to joining Rullion, he worked at General Electric. Saoulli holds an MBA from INSEAD and a master of science in economics from the University of Warwick. In 2018, Rullion ranked 14th on Staffing Industry Analysts’ list of the largest staffing firms in the UK. The company also launched a new specialist Talent Consultancy division in 2018.

Aug 27, 2018

SI 100 Europe - 2018, Dutch -

Hans Ploos van Amstel joined The Adecco Group as CFO in 2015. He started his career in finance at Procter & Gamble in the Netherlands in 1989. Between 1992 and 2003, he held positions of increasing responsibility in Procter & Gamble across Saudi Arabia, Germany, Belgium and Switzerland. In 2003, he joined Levi trauss & Co. in Belgium, as VP finance and operation Europe, and moved to the US as global CFO in 2005. In his most recent position, van Amstel was CFO of COFRA Group from 2009 to 2013, before acting as co-CEO of C&A Europe for a transition period until 2015.

Aug 29, 2018

SI 100 Europe - 2018, Swiss -

Bettina Schaller, a board member of the World Employment Confederation, was appointed president of the WEC Europe in December 2017. She also runs the public affairs activities of The Adecco Group, encompassing regulatory and policy issues and the group’s memberships in employers’ associations at the global and European scale. Schaller is also a member of the B20 Employment and Education Task Force; sits on the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development’s Employment, Labour and Social Affairs committee; supports the Global Forum on Migration and Development’s “responsible recruitment” efforts; and acts as company focal point for the Global Apprenticeship Network and the World Economic Forum.

Aug 28, 2018

SI 100 Europe - 2018, French -

Samuel Tual is president of Groupe Actual, a privately held staffing firm in the French market. In 2016, he won the Ernst & Young Strategic Vision Award for the West Region in France. In the same year, Actual successfully integrated a number of recent acquisitions and grew its revenue by 50%. Actual was co-founded in 2001 by Tual and his father from the merger of their respective staffing firms. In 2014, Samuel Tual was able to secure investments from private equity partners CM-CIC Capital Finance and Ouest Croissance in order to pursue the group’s growth strategy in its home market.