2020

Oct 15, 2020

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Staffing 100 Europe | 2020

Thierry Geffroy is chairman and CEO of Francebased Samsic RH, which operates in more than 25 countries, serves 30,000-plus customers and has turnover of £2.5 billion. Geffroy joined the group in 1992 and in 2010 became the president of Samsic RH, the group’s human resources arm, before attaining his current role in 2019. Under Geffroy’s leadership, Samsic acquired a majority stake in recruitment services firm Sellick Partnership and made two acquisitions in Ireland and Morocco, its first expansion into the African continent. This year, Geffroy and his team are pursuing an international development strategy through the acquisition of Infor Group.

Oct 31, 2020

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Staffing 100 Europe | 2020

Carmen Watson, chair and managing director of Pertemps, joined Pertemps in 1976 as a secretary and was later responsible for the corporate business team and growing turnover to £323 million from £32 million between 1983 and 2000. In 2018, Watson was named Director of the Year by the Institute of Directors in West Midland and received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the REC IRP Awards in London. She is trustee and chair of the Women in Business patrons’ group, board member of Race for Opportunity charity as well as a strong advocate for diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

Oct 16, 2020

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Staffing 100 Europe | 2020

Johnathan Johnson was CEO of Fircroft, one of the world’s leading technical recruitment agencies, until its September 2020 merger with NES Global Talent; Johnson is executive director of the combined company now known as NES Fircroft. Founded by Johnson’s father to serve the North Sea oil and gas industry in 1970, Fircroft serves more than 100 companies across a wide range of specialist technical sectors and ranked fourth on SIA’s 2019 list of the world’s largest engineering staffing firms. The newly combined NES Fircroft would rank as the 26th largest staffing firm globally, according to Staffing Industry Analysts.

Oct 15, 2020

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Staffing 100 Europe | 2020

Charles-Henri Dumon is CEO and co-founder of talent solutions firm Morgan Philips Group. Dumon’s commitment to investing in the latest digital and data-led solutions, and disrupting conventional approaches to talent solutions, led him to launch the firm in 2013. Prior to this, he worked for 27 years with Michael Page where he was managing director – continental Europe and the Americas, and a board member. In 2018, Morgan Philips Group acquired Hudson Global’s recruitment and talent management activities in Europe (except for the Benelux countries) and launched Morgan Philips Hudson Talent Consulting in the UK, France, Spain and Poland.

Oct 16, 2020

SI 100 Europe - 2020, Dutch -

Staffing 100 Europe | 2020

Since 2014, Jurriën Koops has served as the managing director for ABU, the Dutch Federation of Employment Agencies. Under Koops’ leadership, ABU, fellow organisation NBBU and the unions negotiated a collective labour agreement in 2019 for all of Netherland’s temporary workers. This is the first time that the industry has seen such an accomplishment in 25 years and is a major victory for Koops. In the coming years, ABU hopes to generate increased support for temporary work. ABU has outlined six strategic projects that focus on the quality and benefits of temporary employment to help them realise this goal.

Oct 31, 2020

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Staffing 100 Europe | 2020

Minna Vanhala-Harmanen is CEO of Barona, Finland’s largest private HR agency as well as the country’s sixth-largest employer with 30,000 annual employees. Vanhala-Harmanen previously was CEO of Opteam, pivoting to her new role when Barona acquired the firm in 2017. Of her many recent accomplishments, Vanhala-Harmanen is proudest of Barona’s employees, and watching them help people from all different academic and professional backgrounds find employment. Vanhala-Harmanen is a recognised “worklife influencer” in Finland, as well as a popular speaker.

Oct 17, 2020

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Staffing 100 Europe | 2020

Sergio Picarelli is The Adecco Group’s regional head of North America, UK and Ireland Professional Staffing and is responsible for global oversight of Lee Hecht Harrison, General Assembly, Badenoch+Clark, Spring Professional and Pontoon. He has been a member of its executive committee since 2009. Picarelli first joined Adecco in 1993, holding several leadership positions before becoming country manager of Adecco Italy and Switzerland from 2005 to 2009 (Switzerland until the end of 2008). He was the group’s chief sales officer from 2009 to September 2015, when he became regional head of Italy, Eastern Europe and Middle East and North Africa.

Oct 15, 2020

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Staffing 100 Europe | 2020

As CEO of PageGroup, Steven Ingham oversees a £1.28 billion global business with a headcount of almost 7,000 employees across 36 countries. Ingham has witnessed PageGroup’s people-first culture being strengthened by successfully adapting to volatile market and cultural changes as well as delivering a threefold increase in turnover and profits. He has continued to reshape what PageGroup is as a business and the opportunities it can create. Since becoming a wheelchair user after a near-fatal skiing accident in March 2019, Ingham increased focus on unlocking hidden talent, enabling employers to nurture diverse workforces built on an inclusive, winning mindset.

Oct 20, 2020

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Staffing 100 Europe | 2020

James Reed is chairman of Reed Global. Founded in 1960, it now has more than 3,000 employees working in 140 locations worldwide. During the Covid-19 crisis, Reed co-launched the Keep Britain Working campaign to preserve jobs and donated £100,000 to the National Emergencies Trust Covid Appeal, matched by a £100,000 donation from the Reed Foundation made via The Big Give. He joined the company in 1992 after graduating from Harvard Business School. Reed is also a published author and has written The 7 Second CV, Why You? and 101 Interview Questions You’ll Never Fear Again; he also co-authored Put Your Mindset to Work.

Oct 31, 2020

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Staffing 100 Europe | 2020

As president of Work Service from March 2019 to August 2020, Iwona Szmitkowska led the company through a restructuring process and was a key player in the majority stake acquisition of Work Service by Gi Group, which was finalised in August. Now VP of Work Service SA, she plans to focus within the Polish market on automation of HR processes, HR restructuring, and recruitment and outsourcing. Associated with Work Service since 2003, she is also president of the Work Service Foundation and since 2017 has been the president of the management board of the Employment Agencies Association, the largest Polish organisation specializing in delivering HR.