Annelise Smith is the director of RPO and MSP for Lorien, part of the Impellam Group. She is passionate about putting recruitment expertise at the center of all Lorien solutions and advocates for a people-led approach with expert-to-expert relationships underpinned by innovative technology. She is a key advocate for driving female representation in tech and [...]
Passionate about connecting people to work, Sam Smith is VP and managing director of KellyOCG EMEA. Last year, amid the pandemic, Smith and her team successfully brought to the European market OCG GO MSP — a simple, powerful and quick-to-implement platform with robust data and insights for a single country or lower-spend MSPs. The solution [...]
Since its founding by CEO Kim Smitz in 2017, KNA Solutions has grown from a company with a single client to a staffing agency employing more than 2,000 temporary workers, specializing in high-volume, light industrial production and service jobs. Under Smitz’s leadership, women occupy many senior roles in the company including COO, the heads of [...]
With more than 25 years of professional recruitment experience, Yvonne Smyth, group head of equity, diversity and inclusion at Hays plc, helps ensure the company’s recruitment activities and insights positively promote and create more diverse workforces and inclusive workplace cultures. Smyth also sits on the company’s global DE&I council, advising and supporting the company’s own [...]
Kim Sneeder, managing director at CareerCircle, an Allegis Group company, has been a leader in the staffing industry for 25 years. Following a 20-plus year career at Aerotek, another Allegis Group company, she launched CareerCircle in 2019 to bridge the skills gap by helping those in underserved communities find jobs. In just two and a [...]
Rita Steel is president of professional talent solutions for the western and southwestern US at Robert Half and oversees teams that specialize in the placement of permanent and contract professionals in the areas of finance and accounting, as well as administrative and customer support. A member of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Executive Steering Council [...]
Ann Swain is founder and Global CEO of Apsco, an international trade body representing the professional recruitment sector with operations in the UK, Germany, Australia and across Southeast Asia. She has over 30 years’ recruitment experience, including time as UK sales director of multinational staffing firms and managing director of recruitment training company Learning Curve [...]
As president of Work Service from March 2019 to August 2020, Iwona Szmitkowska led the company through a restructuring process and was a key player in the majority stake acquisition of Work Service by Gi Group. Returning to her role of president in January 2021, she turned her focus within the Polish market on automation [...]
As senior VP of strategy, Colleen Tiner champions customer-centric innovations such as the Beeline extended workforce platform. Also a prominent advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion in the external workforce, Tiner is the executive sponsor of the Beeline Life Council, which helps to expand Beeline’s ability to attract, develop and retain critical talent by broadening [...]
In response to IT talent shortages, Namita Tirath, chief customer officer at Pyramid Consulting, created GenSpark in 2019 to give minorities and women intensive IT training and a career path while providing diverse talent for clients. GenSpark now has 20-plus associates nationally and has graduated 20 cohorts and placed 200 graduates at Fortune 500 companies [...]
