Hetal Parikh is the co-founder and president of Rangam Consultants Inc., a minority-, woman- and disability-owned supplier of workforce solutions globally. She has led Rangam to become more than just a staffing company; with a goal of employment for everyone, she’s currently investing in efforts to transform the employment landscape for individuals with disabilities. Recent [...]
Cynthia J. Pasky, Strategic Staffing Solutions’ founder and CEO, is a driving force in the contingent labor industry, growing the firm into a global workforce solutions business. Leading with values instead of a hulking business plan, Pasky’s leadership style has brought success to the company, employees and communities. It’s how she led the company to [...]
Linda Perneau joined Volt Information Sciences Inc., the 22nd-largest US staffing firm, in 2018 and was named president of Volt Workforce Solutions that May. The next month, she became interim president and CEO of the entire company, and dropped the “interim” part in November 2018. Perneau is Volt’s first female CEO. Accomplishments in the past [...]
April Pish is CEO of Update Inc., the fourth-largest US provider of legal staffing. Pish is an attorney herself and joined New York-based Update in 2006. She says one of her company’s biggest accomplishments in the past year has been its synergy with parent company Driven Inc. that has led to growth encompassing an expansion [...]
While completing her JD at Yale Law School, Ranjini Poddar noticed a void in the IT consulting marketplace, and in response, founded Artech LLC in 1992 with her husband, Ajay. Today, Poddar serves as CEO of what is now the 11th-largest IT staffing firm in the US. In 2019, Poddar drove Artech’s integration with the [...]
Jennifer Prospero brings vast industry knowledge and breadth of experience to her role as CFO of Staffmark Group, part of global staffing giant Recruit Holdings Co. Ltd. Over the past two years, the respected leader successfully spearheaded the massive integration of support services for two national staffing companies with 12 specialty brands. She, with her [...]
Jill Quinn is president of Centerline Drivers, a TrueBlue company. Her dedication to making a difference in the lives of truck drivers and to developing the next generation of staffing leaders was honored this year by her appointment to the board of governors of the National Private Truck Council and by Centerline being named on [...]
A 25-year healthcare industry veteran, Kelly Rakowski joined the staffing industry in July 2018, when she became president of leadership and search solutions for AMN Healthcare. Now, she leads the company’s interim leadership, physician permanent placement, recruitment process outsourcing, and executive search solutions. In 2019, under Rakowski’s leadership, the business successfully recruited and placed nearly [...]
Geometric Results Inc.’s Salema Rice is the industry’s first and only chief data officer in the MSP space. Her accomplishments include launching the company’s Envision product, a data factory that leverages data from all sources. “Our modern technology and data science, along with our massive global contingent labor benchmark data, enable our customers to analyze, [...]
Joyce Russell has been a powerful force in the staffing industry in her 30-plus years with The Adecco Group, and now she is channeling that passion into improving the lives of American workers in her new role as president of the Adecco Group US Foundation, to which she was named in January 2019. he foundation [...]
