2020

Oct 31, 2020

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Staffing 100 Europe | 2020

As director, Bettina Schaller heads the group public affairs activities of The Adecco Group. She was elected president of the World Employment Confederation in September 2020 and has been president of WEC Europe since December 2017. She is also a member of the B20 Employment and Education Task Force; co-chair of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Business and Industry Advisory Committee Employment Labour & Social Affairs Committee; steering group member on the World Economic Forum Center for New Economy and Society; steering group member of the Global Apprenticeship Network; and president of the American Swiss Young Leaders Alumni Foundation.

Oct 15, 2020

SI 100 Europe - 2020, British -

Staffing 100 Europe | 2020

Alistair Cox is group CEO of global recruitment agency Hays plc, having held that position since 2007. He is a chartered engineer with a degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of Salford. He also holds an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business in California, US. Cox began his career at British Aerospace and eventually moved into staffing, having been appointed chief executive at Xansa plc, the IT outsourcing organisation, before joining Hays. He has also served as a non-executive director at 3i Plc and at Just Eat, and is currently chairman of the British and Irish Modern Music Institute.

Oct 31, 2020

SI 100 Europe - 2020, Finnish -

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 15, 2020

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Staffing 100 Europe | 2020

Suzana Bernhard is the executive VP of Dekra SE and VP of Dekra Arbeit Group, overseeing 40 offices in 20 countries. Appointed to her current position in 2000, she has led the company to more than €550 million in revenue and has helped lead its expansion across Europe. In 2019, Bernhard and her team were awarded “Top Personnel Service Provider” in Germany from Focus-Spezial magazine, “Innovation in Micro Mobility” from Dekra and “Germany’s Customer Champion.” As part of Dekra Group, Dekra Arbeit has been supporting both customer companies and employees in qualified career and personnel planning since 1998.

Oct 31, 2020

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Staffing 100 Europe | 2020

Henry Schirmer joined Randstad as CFO and member of its executive board in 2018. He is responsible for global finance and accounting, business control, M&A, tax, treasury, business risk and audit, investor relations and legal. In 2019, Randstad achieved record-high free cash flow, providing the opportunity to strengthen its balance sheet and reduce its debt position. Together with a cost optimisation program, this improved its incremental conversion ratio resulting in an EBITA of 4.9% in the last quarter. Schirmer is also a member of the board of directors of General American Investors and the non-profit organisation Results for Development.

Oct 17, 2020

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Staffing 100 Europe | 2020

Claire Marsh joined Lorien, part of the Impellam Group, in 1998 and has assumed roles of increasing responsibility. In 2019, Marsh was appointed as the CEO for Impellam’s global technology staffing portfolio and North America corporate services. Having relocated to the US city of Atlanta, Georgia, from the UK, Marsh leads Impellam’s IT staffing businesses Lorien, Onezeero and s.com across the US and Europe, using their passion and expertise in tech to create innovative solutions that give customers an edge in attracting and retaining the IT talent they need to build and transform their businesses.

Oct 15, 2020

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Staffing 100 Europe | 2020

Nick Dunett is CEO of Resource Solutions. As part of the Robert Walters Group, Resource Solutions has a global footprint across 31 countries and sources and recruits for clients in more than 60 countries. He was managing director of Robert Walters Germany and Switzerland and COO of Resource Solutions before becoming CEO in 2020. To support organisations in dealing with demand-surge during the Covid-19 crisis, Dunett and his team this year launched a new service called Rapidsource, which has helped the NHS fill 600,000 shifts, process more than 50,000 expressions of interest, get 17,500-plus healthcare professionals to work and support 45 new NHS trusts.

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.

Oct 15, 2020

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Staffing 100 Europe | 2020

Étienne Colella is chairman and founder of Pixid Group, a VMS provider headquartered in France. With more than 14 years of experience in the IT sector, Colella previously held several senior positions before entering his current role. Pixid provides a complete SaaS application, compliant with European regulation, for providing and using temporary staff and has developed its growth through acquisitions. After acquiring Amris (UK) in 2016, it bought The Internet Corp. (UK) in 2017 and Carerix (Netherlands) in 2018. Currently, Colella and his team are building a central online platform designed to connect a wide range of HR features.

Oct 16, 2020

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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.