French

Manuel Roger

Manuel Roger

Beeline
Managing Director, Beeline Europe
French

Staffing 100 Europe | 2020

As managing director for Beeline Europe, Manuel Roger ensures that customers and partners in this market consistently receive Beeline’s white glove” service and manages the entirety of Beeline’s end-to-end services. Roger has been in the HR and staffing industry for over two decades, gaining experience in a variety of roles while living and working in five different countries. Of his accolades, Beeline’s rapid and client-focused response to the Covid-19 pandemic is this year’s most satisfying. Working with clients to find and implement original solutions, Roger says hearing their appreciation is the proudest achievement he could name.

Etienne Colella

Etienne Colella

PIXID
CEO

Etienne Colella is the CEO of PIXID, the largest VMS in France, which he founded in 2004. PIXID offers a complete SAAS application that is compliant with the many aspects of the regulation required to provide and use temporary staff in France. In 2015, the private equity fund Keensight Capital took a majority stake in the company. Previously, Colella spent 14 years in the IT industry, where he held various senior positions. Colella graduated from ESSEC Business School in Paris.

Valerie Beaulieu

Valerie Beaulieu

The Adecco Group
Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, Member of the Group Executive Committee
French

Valérie Beaulieu joined The Adecco Group as chief sales and marketing officer and member of the executive committee in November 2020. Before joining The Adecco Group, Beaulieu was chief marketing officer for Microsoft US, leading the marketing function across the region’s B2B portfolio. Her career at Microsoft spanned 23 years; while there, she held various senior leadership roles across North America, Asia and Europe. Beaulieu has been VP of the French Foreign Trade Advisors since January 2015; she has also been a director and member of the Audit and Risk Committee of ISS A/S since 2020 and director and board member at Orange since 2022.

Staffing 100 Europe | 2022

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.

Staffing 100 Europe | 2021

Denis Pennel

Denis Pennel

World Employment Confederation
Managing Director
French

Staffing 100 Europe | Hall of Fame |  2020

Managing director of the World Employment Confederation since 2005, Denis Pennel promotes the interests of the staffing industry at the global level. The WEC comprises 49 national federations and six global workforce solutions companies. Under his leadership, the WEC announced in June it would lead the “Safely Back to Work” alliance launched by Randstad, The Adecco Group and ManpowerGroup. A work futurist, he is a keynote speaker and has written many opinion pieces and several books, including The Ego Revolution at Work (2015) and Travail, la soif de liberte, which translates to Work, the thirst for freedom (2017). Prior to the WEC, he was corporate communications director for Manpower France from 1998 to 2005.

Stephane Kasriel

Stephane Kasriel

Upwork
CEO

As CEO of Upwork, Stephane Kasriel drives the company’s vision of connecting businesses with talent faster than ever. The third-largest company by human cloud spend, Upwork boasts more than 5 million company clients and 12 million freelancers. Kasriel first joined the company as a result of the merger with oDesk in 2012, and was responsible for building and leading the company’s global engineering team as senior VP of engineering. Kasriel also co-chairs the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Education, Gender and Work.

François Béharel

François Béharel

Randstad
President & CEO France

François Béharel was appointed to Randstad’s executive board in 2013. He is now responsible for France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium & Luxembourg, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, and Uruguay. It started when he joined Vedior in 1999 as a regional manager. Following various promotions, he became CEO of Vedior France in May 2007. Following Vedior’s acquisition by Randstad, he was appointed president and CEO of the newly combined Randstad Groupe France in 2008 and played a key role in the integration of its businesses.

Yvon Drouet

Yvon Drouet

Synergie
Deputy GM & CFO
French

As deputy general manager and CFO of Synergie, the sixth-largest staffing firm in France, Yvon Drouet oversees group finance and investments and plays a key role in Synergie’s international expansion. He is also a member of Synergie’s executive board. Synergie has developed its IT support services after acquiring DCS Easyware in 2018 in France and Tigloo in 2019 in Spain. Earlier this year, Synergie announced the expansion of its digital services initiative and increased its capital stake in French digital services company DCS Easyware from 66% to 100%.

Staffing 100 Europe | 2021

Didier Bench

Didier Bench

Lumesse
Executive Chairman

Didier Bench, executive chairman of Lumesse, has more than 25 years’ experience in the leadership and development of international technology firms, digital companies and investment funds. He has held senior management positions with a series of software companies, successfully turning them into profitable and major players. Bench has also supported investment decisions for a number of major private equity and investment funds. In addition to HgCapital, he has been a senior advisor for SilverLake Sumeru and a senior partner for CDP Technology Ventures, a Canadian private equity fund that is part of Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec operating in the North American and European markets. He is also nonexecutive chairman of EidosMedia.

Stephane Kasriel

Stephane Kasriel

Upwork
CEO

As CEO of freelancing website Upwork, Stephane Kasriel drives the company’s vision of connecting businesses with talent faster than ever. Upwork connects 15 million freelancers to more than 5 million companies across more than 180 countries. Kasriel came to the company in 2012 as senior VP of engineering. In 2015, after he was named CEO, he led the company’s rebranding from Elance-oDesk. He also co-chairs the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Education, Gender and Work. Kasriel’s expertise in the future of work has been featured in the Harvard Business Review and Bloomberg Review. He holds an MBA from INSEAD, an MS from Stanford and a BS from Ecole Polytechnique in France.