SI 100 Europe - 2017, British -

Gary Elden, CEO of SThree, was awarded by the queen in 2016 with an Officer for the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in recognition of his services to diversity in business. A year earlier he won the prestigious Black British Business Person of the Year award.

Elden has been CEO of SThree since January 2013, after serving as its deputy CEO since May 2012. Before that, Elden was SThree’s chief strategy officer. He has held a number of senior positions, including that of founding managing director of Huxley Associates. As chief strategy officer, he was responsible for the expansion of the group’s international operations and non-ICT disciplines. Elden joined SThree’s IT recruitment brand, Computer Futures, as a recruitment consultant in 1990.

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Chris Pullen was appointed group chief executive of Staffline in January 2018. He joined the company in 2015 and was initially responsible for group mergers and acquisitions. He was designated as group CFO and an executive member of the board in 2016. He is also a member of the nominations committee. Pullen first joined the group from Regus PLC, the FTSE 250-listed provider of flexible working solutions, where he was global managing director of its core Office division. He previously held the role of CEO of APCOA Parking (UK) Ltd., which provides parking services across the UK, where he led a turnaround and subsequent significant growth, as well as senior management positions at ITC Legal Services Ltd and National Car Parks Ltd.

SI 100 Europe - 2014, British -

Gerry Mason trained as a design engineer at Salford Technical College in the mid-1950s before emigrating to Toronto, Canada, where he studied mechanical engineering at the Ryson Institute for Technology. He then founded Morson in 1969, which he led until turning control over to his son, Ged Mason, in 1999 (see separate entry). He continues to serve as nonexecutive director on the board.

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Richard MacMillan is CEO of ICS Group, the largest healthcare staffing firm in Europe. He led ICS Group’s 2018 acquisition of London-based ProClinical Limited, establishing the group’s global presence in life sciences staffing and creating the platform to expand its healthcare workforce solutions across Europe and the US. MacMillan is working with the wider ICS team to support digital enablement and application of data throughout the business. This strategy fueled initiatives across the group since mid-2018, including the launch of new digital therapy and diagnostics services. MacMillan joined Pulse, a trading division of ICS, in 2006 as CEO; Pulse merged with ICS in 2010 and he has led the business since then.

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Farida Gibbs founded Gibbs Hybrid Workforce Solutions in 2005 as a privately held, globally certified, woman-owned business enterprise and ethnic minority owned business. The company provides talent sourcing, talent management, programme solutions and a technology consultancy. Gibbs supports the ‘Women of the Future’ Ambassadors Programme and sits on the advisory board for Mosaic Princes Trust. Gibbs’ other recognitions include: E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year, Staffing Industry Analysts’ Global Power 100 — Women in Staffing, Brummell 30, Inspirational and City of London Women Entrepreneurs.

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Steve Ingham is CEO of PageGroup, one of the largest global staffing firms. Ingham joined the company in 1987 — when it was still known as Michael Page — as a consultant. He became operating director in 1990 and was appointed to progressively larger roles until becoming CEO in 2006. The group now employs 7,500 people in 36 countries and in 2018 reported more than £800 million in gross profit. Ingham ranked in Glassdoor’s Top CEO list for 2018. The company has also won a number of awards, including recently the Most Socially Engaged Staffing Agency on LinkedIn and Britain’s Most Admired Companies Award in the Support Services, People and Places sector category.

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Paul Venables is group finance director of Hays plc. As a USA-qualified chartered accountant, he started his career as a senior manager at Deloitte & Touche’s US practice. This was followed by a 13-year career at Exel plc, where he held a number of senior finance and operational roles, including deputy group finance director; he was also a member of the executive board of Exel plc and chairman of its acquisitions and project review board. Following the acquisition of Exel plc by Deutsche Post, Venables worked in its DHL Logistics division before joining Hays plc. Until July 2015, Venables was senior independent nonexecutive director of Wincanton plc.

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As CEO of Impellam Group’s UK-based technology staffing firm Lorien, and its sister company Onezeero, Claire Marsh has led the organisations through an intense recent period of growth and continues to expand by providing bespoke MSP and RPO talent solutions to organisations that see technology as a differentiator. Over the last 18 months, Lorien expanded into Ireland and the DACH region of Germany, Austria and Switzerland to support businesses’ overseas operations, and also launched an all-encompassing Statement of Work solution.

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As president of EMEA and Asia Pacific and a member of the Cielo global executive team, Seb O’Connell plays a key role in shaping the strategic direction of Cielo, a global RPO leader. Drawn to this industry to work with people, for people, O’Connell’s recent proudest achievement was guiding Cielo and clients through the Covid-19 pandemic. Leading the organisation’s global strategy, O’Connell helped clients tackle the resulting recruitment challenges and ultimately continue to hire and onboard employees virtually. As the Covid-19 situation evolves, O’Connell will continue to assist Cielo employees and clients in adjusting to a new normal.

O’Connell became president, global markets, in October 2021.

Staffing 100 Europe | 2021