The first African-American woman to own a billion-dollar company, founder and CEO Janice Bryant Howroyd launched ACT•1 Group in 1978 with $1,500; now it is the largest workforce solutions company founded in the US by a minority woman. Believing people perform best when their personal strengths are developed and challenged, Bryant Howroyd aims to provide the firm’s employees with an innovative learning- and service driven environment. Bryant Howroyd has [...]
Under Ericka Hyson’s leadership as partner and COO, ettain group has become the 34th-largest IT staffing firm in the US, earning the Inavero Best of Staffing Diamond Award for Client Satisfaction (marking five consecutive years) and Best of Staffing for Talent for the past four consecutive years. Hyson started as a recruiter in 1999 and [...]
Ilonka Jankovich is venture partner of the Randstad Innovation Fund, which supports entrepreneurs to contribute to the digital strategy of Randstad. For the first 10 years of her career, Jankovich was an M&A lawyer in Amsterdam, London and Budapest. In 1996, she founded Legal FlexForce, a permanent recruitment and contracting firm based in the Netherlands. [...]
Nathalie Jaoui became deputy CEO and head of temporary employment and recruitment at Groupe Crit in 2002 and oversees the ongoing series of acquisitions that is driving Group Crit’s growth in the US market. She joined Group Crit in 1989, served as a director of the company from 1992, and later served as CFO. Jaoui [...]
Ineke Kooistra has been CEO of YoungCapital since 2013. The company is reported to be the largest student employment agency in the Netherlands. Kooistra entered the staffing industry in 1993 as a manager at Unique Uitzendbureau (now part of USG People), leaving in 2000 to become business line manager for CSS Professional Resources. She joined [...]
A pioneer in recruitment process outsourcing, CEO Sue Marks founded RPO provider Cielo in 2005. Since its inception, she has been an annual member of the HRO Today HR Outsourcing Superstar listing, and was recognized as Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year in the service business category. She is the winner of the Marquette University College of Business Administration’s Alumni Award for Entrepreneurship and a three-time winner of [...]
Lisa Maxwell is a founding partner of Gerard Stewart, an executive search firm serving the human capital industry. For more than a decade, she has been a trusted advisor to multinational, public sector and private-equity backed staffing and professional services organizations seeking guidance on critical boardroom issues, including CEO search and succession planning. Having placed dozens of CEOs across the human capital industry, including global leaders recognized on the Staffing [...]
Barbara McGrath was appointed deputy managing director of the Brightwater Group in 2015. She joined BrightStar Recruitment (formerly Brightwater Support) as head of recruitment in 2005. McGrath was appointed regional operations manager in January 2007, and a year later was promoted to operations director. In January 2011, she was appointed to the board, where she [...]
Shona McManus is the CEO and owner of Dublin-based Osborne Recruitment Consultancy. McManus began her career as a recruitment consultant, accounting and finance, for SkillsGroup International. She then held a role at Brightwater Selection before becoming branch manager at Grafton Recruitment. From 2007 to 2013, she served as VP and committee member of the National [...]
Robin Mee is founder and president of Mee Derby, a search firm for the staffing industry. A passionate advocate of staffing, Mee serves as volunteer leader at the American Staffing Association and presents regularly at staffing events nationally. Mee Derby has helped hundreds of staffing companies grow by hiring top talent and assisted thousands of staffing professionals in elevating in their careers. The company’s annual revenue rose 35% [...]
