2021

Alain Roumilhac

Alain Roumilhac

ManpowerGroup
Regional President, France
French

As regional president, ManpowerGroup France, Alain Roumilhac oversees all business lines in the country, including Manpower, Experis, FuturSkill, Right Management and ManpowerGroup Solutions. France represents the company’s largest single geography in terms of revenue. He first joined the company in May 2011 as managing director of Experis and ManpowerGroup Solutions for Southern Europe and assumed his current role the following year. Roumilhac often serves as a spokesperson in the media and at events such as the World Economic Forum annual meeting Viva Tech, a large technology conference. He is also engaged with Tech for Good, an initiative to build a diverse pipeline of tech talent.

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Ingrid Hofmann

Ingrid Hofmann

Hofmann Corp.
Founder & CEO
German

Ingrid Hofmann is CEO of Hofmann Corp., parent company of global staffing and recruiting agency I.K. Hofmann (also known as Hofmann Personal), which she founded in 1985 in Nuremberg, Germany. She expanded rapidly into Eastern Germany upon the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. That same year, the birth of her daughter led to her commitment to make the worlds of work and family compatible. I.K. Hofmann is the fifth-largest staffing firm in Germany and the 22nd largest in Europe. In 2007, Hofmann was awarded the Federal Order of Merit by then-Federal President Horst Köhler.

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Nicola McQueen

Nicola McQueen

NHS Professionals
CEO
British

NHS Professionals CEO Nicola McQueen has spent the past 20 years creating effective staffing strategies across the private and public sectors. Last year, she led NHS Professionals’ pandemic resourcing response. The organisation built three national recruitment programmes to support the NHS while also launching a Rapid Response campaign, all of which delivered 20,000 workers to the frontline, supplied 10,000 Clinical Contact Caseworkers for the NHS Test and Trace programme and most recently provided over 17,000 vaccinators to NHS Trusts in England.

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Patrick Tiessen

Patrick Tiessen

Nétive
Co-Founder & CEO
Dutch

Patrick Tiessen began Nétive, a VMS provider, with two customers; today, the organisation has more than 200. As co-founder and CEO, Tiessen continues to expand the company by opening offices in Rijswijk, the Netherlands and London. He has held key positions at The Next Flex and HR Puzzle and also worked at Kelly as an international IT manager. Passionate about entrepreneurship, Tiessen believes in maintaining transparency and focuses on making software to support all facets of recruiting, selecting, contracting and managing permanent and temporary employees. Nétive was featured in the Best Small Workplaces 2020 list in the Netherlands.

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Simon Blockley

Simon Blockley

Impellam Group Plc
CEO, Impellam Global Managed Services
British

As CEO of Impellam Global Managed Services, home to the Guidant Global and Comensura brands, Simon Blockley has shaped the UK headquartered company’s vision to create progressive, talent-first solutions. These offerings span the workforce spectrum from contingent hiring to services procurement. Blockley’s leadership has led the business through the uncertainty of the past year while maintaining its reputation as a people-first employer and a builder of better client businesses. Blockley has appeared on the Staffing 100 Europe list for five consecutive years.

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Kevin Barrow

Kevin Barrow

Osborne Clarke LLP
Partner
British

A partner with international law firm Osborne Clarke LLP, Kevin Barrow has been advising staffing companies on legal matters since 1990. Most recently, Barrow led a team that advised 240 companies on the April 2021 changes to the IR35 off-payroll working rules and helped workforce solutions companies during the Covid-19 pandemic by providing advice on how government funding would be at their disposal. A regular speaker at online industry events, Barrow thrives on moving workforce solution companies toward platform staffing models, consultancy models and train-and-deploy models, along with digitally transforming their processes.

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Mark Maesen

Mark Maesen

Actief Group
CEO
Belgian

In 2000, Mark Maesen was appointed CEO of Belgium-based Actief Interim, now the Actief Group, a €700 million staffing company active in Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and Austria. During his tenure, the company has continued to expand and make acquisitions, and it now employs more than 20,000 temporary workers on a daily basis in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Austria under the Actief Interim, Actief Werkt!, Actief Personalmanagement and Actief Jobmade brand names. Maesen is also closely involved with the Private Art Support Foundation, which collects, preserves and discloses works of art by Belgian artists.

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Jon Ball

Jon Ball

Sanderson plc
CEO
British

Jon Ball is CEO of UK-based Sanderson, which was rebranded from Resource Solutions Group in November 2019. After joining the company in 1996 as a trainee recruitment consultant, Ball worked his way through the ranks and attained his current position in July 2020. Recently, Sanderson acquired Intelligent Resource and a major stake in iKas Global, increasing the company’s international footprint to Singapore, Hong Kong and Sydney. Ball thrives on refreshing the companys strategic objectives in the coming years and looks forward to solidifying projects and solutions offerings to support partners on their next steps in the market.

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Isabelle Eynaud-Chevalier

Isabelle Eynaud-Chevalier

Prism'emploi
General Manager
French

With over 25 years of experience in the field of employment, HR management and vocational training, Isabelle Eynaud-Chevalier is general manager of Prism’emploi, the French association of employment agencies. She began her career with the Ministry of Labour and Employment in 1991 and attained her current role in 2018. Under her leadership, Prism’emploi prioritised health security during the Covid-19 crisis by distributing recommendations to support companies using temporary workers and the temporary workers themselves. Eynaud-Chevalier also serves on the board of the World Employment Confederation.

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Bettina Schaller

Bettina Schaller

Head of Group Public Affairs, The Adecco Group
President, World Employment Confederation
Swiss

Bettina Schaller heads the group public affairs activities of The Adecco Group. She is also president of the World Employment Confederation as well as WEC-Europe and has been involved in the governance of the WEC for 10 years. In addition, she is a member of the B20 Employment and Education Task Force; cochair of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Business and Industry Advisory Committee Employment Labour and 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.

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