Shona McManus is CEO and owner of Dublin, Ireland-based Osborne, which is a certified Great Place to Work. Over her 19 years in the recruitment industry, she has successfully led and transformed recruitment businesses in both multinational and indigenous Irish recruitment firms. Since taking the helm of Osborne in 2013, her passion for recruitment, and [...]
Nicola McQueen was appointed as CEO of NHS Professionals, the government-owned temporary staff supplier to the National Health Service, in September 2019. She is passionate about workforce business issues having spent the past 20 years supporting workforce strategies in various public and private sectors. Her career in recruitment began as a consultant at Hays before [...]
After joining SRG in 2000, Kelly Morton was quickly identified as a driving force for the business and she climbed the ranks to become managing director in 2009. Since then, Morton has taken the business from a niche UK science recruitment company to a Global STEM recruitment network. Morton is currently overseeing a rebranding project [...]
Annemarie Muntz is managing director of global public affairs for Randstad and president of the World Employment Confederation, the voice of the employment and recruitment industry at the global level. In 2018, she co-chaired the B20 Employment & Education Taskforce, leading discussions concerning the benefits of diverse forms of work for well-functioning labor markets. She [...]
Yasmin Parvizi is COO of Russell Taylor Holdings, a £100 million UK staffing provider with over 210 locations via a number of specialist high-volume and niche resourcing businesses. She ensures operational excellence across the company’s client portfolio, which uses more than 10,000 contingent and permanent staff a week. Parvizi previously worked for Nexus People GRI and Capita and has [...]
Kelly Quirk is CEO and group managing director of Australia-based total talent business Harrier Group. With more than 20 years’ experience leading FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 businesses, Quirk has driven significant growth and innovation at Harrier. Under her leadership, the business has developed a reputation for delivering high quality total talent solutions, fusing a [...]
Corinne Ripoche Van Hecke has been global president of Pontoon Solutions since 2017 and has embarked on a transformation that has firmly positioned Pontoon as an industry leader. Ripoche Van Hecke repositioned Pontoon from a regionally managed operation to a segment-specific model, offering global delivery with trusted industry specialization. And in 2019, Pontoon launched its [...]
Julia Robertson has been CEO of Impellam Group plc since 2013. Her vision for the company is to be the world’s most trusted staffing company – trusted by its people, candidates, customers and investors in equal measure. It’s been her belief that there is a ‘better way’ to do recruitment. And in 1986, it was [...]
Bettina Schaller heads the group public affairs activities of The Adecco Group. Also a board member of the World Employment Confederation, she was appointed president of the WEC Europe in December 2017. She is also a member of the B20 Employment and Education Task Force; co-chair of the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development’s Employment, Labor and Social Affairs [...]
Since 2012, Camelia Slivneanu has been executive director of the Romanian Association of Temporary Agents (ARAMT), recognized as a staffing industry voice by both authorities and social partners. Slivneanu has led the organization as it identified and promoted quality standards and best practices for the staffing industry and improved the industry’s public image. She involved [...]
