Iwona Szmitkowska is VP of the management board of Work Service. She’s a graduate of the French-Polish postgraduate studies in management at the University of Poznan and Rennes (2003) and the University of Technology and Agriculture in Bydgoszcz. She also graduated from the Naval Academy in Gdynia and studied at the Mikołaj Kopernik University in [...]
Hiromi Tazaki is chairman of the JAC Recruitment Group and CEO of the Tazaki Group, which founded JAC Recruitment in London in 1975. Tazaki co-founded JAC Japan in 1988 and was appointed CEO of the company’s Japanese business in 2011. With a banking background from the City of London, Tazaki expanded the recruitment business overseas.
Tracy Thomson founded Finite Recruitment in Australia in 1998, having relocated from the UK in 1997. Through a mixture of organic growth and acquisition, Finite grew into a network of seven offices across Australia and New Zealand. In 2003, Thomson founded FinXL IT Professional Services on the back of growing customer demand to offer a [...]
Oksana Timofeeva was appointed CFO of Ancor in 2011. She previously held the position of Ancor Treasury Department Director. As CFO, she is responsible for Ancor Holding’s overall financial management system and the firm’s compliance with the uniform standards of financial services provided for all Ancor operating territories. Timofeeva graduated from Ukhta Industrial Institute with a specialty in oil and gas geology, and [...]
Chihiro Ueda was appointed president of Recruit Holdings’ HR Technology Fund in January 2015. In addition to her role as fund manager, Ueda was also appointed an executive manager of Recruit Holdings and has been one of the company’s key players in its investment and M&A activities. Ueda first joined Recruit in 1999 and since [...]
Anke Ulens has been managing director of Vivaldis Interim in Belgium since 2009. Founded in 1991, Vivaldis operates almost 50 offices across Belgium. Ulens started her career in recruitment in 1995 when she joined Randstad as a key account manager. In 2001, she became a sales manager for SD Worx, before joining USG HR as [...]
Carmen Watson joined Pertemps in 1976 as a secretary and by 1983 had progressed to the boardroom as commercial director. From 1983 to 2000, she was responsible for the formation of a corporate business team and turnover grew tenfold from £32 million to £323 million. Watson was named managing director in 2000 and then became [...]
Michelle White is the head of Pertemps Managed Solutions, a provider of workforce talent acquisition solutions. She has overseen the growth of the business, now a £400millon business with 250 offices across the UK. In addition, White has more than 20 years’ experience working for parent company Pertemps, including 14 years at director level. She has [...]
Anna Wicha has been with Adecco since 2000. In 2007, she was appointed country manager, Romania. In 2010 and 2011, and again since 2014, she added responsibility for the overall strategic activities of Adecco in Romania. Since 2010, she has been the president of the Polish HR Forum. She also serves as a board member [...]
Christine Wright was appointed managing director of Asia in April 2012, the latest function in her extensive 20-year career with Hays. She is responsible for the day-to-day operational management and growth of the businesses in Japan, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and India. The Asia region since 2012 has doubled in revenue and grown to [...]
