Ingrid Hofmann is CEO of Hofmann Corp., the parent company of global staffing and recruiting agency I.K. Hofmann (also known as Hofmann Personal), which she founded in 1985 in Nuremberg, Germany. Guided by her philosophy that growth occurs by recommendation, Hofmann Corp. has become the fifth-largest staffing agency in Germany with 2019 revenue of €504.6 million. The company has 20,000 employees in more than 100 international branches in Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia, Switzerland and the US.