Yukiko Nagashima joined Recruit Holdings in 1985. After gaining experience in the recruitment advertising business, she moved to the HR department in 1995, where she was the head of hiring and training. In 2006, she was promoted to corporate executive officer, becoming the third female board member in Recruit’s history. Nagashima was appointed president and [...]
A certified public accountant in Japan, the US and Canada, Kana Odawara was appointed CFO and director, management division of Adecco Japan, in April 2015. Odawara has worked in senior finance roles for several large companies in both the US and Japan, including PwC, ING Direct Japan, medical technology company Stryker Japan, and most recently [...]
Laurence Pottier-Caudron is the founder and president of franchise-only staffing group Temporis, which is the largest staffing company of its kind in France. Since opening in 2000, the company has established a network of more than 140 offices throughout France. Pottier-Caudron started her recruitment career with Adecco as a director for the Midi-Pyrenees region in [...]
Kelly Quirk became CEO of Australia-based Harrier Human Capital in 2012, having previously held directorships in Europe with Hays, Randstad and Robert Walters. She has more than 20 years' experience in talent management, outsourcing and HR consulting throughout Europe, the Middle East, India and Asia Pacific. Harrier Human Capital has more than 120 people working across [...]
Nerissa Reyes is president of Avanti People Partnership International, a Philippines-based firm established in 1995 to facilitate cross-cultural recruitment throughout Asia. Reyes is currently the chairperson of NPAworldwide global recruitment network, a cooperative network of 500 recruitment firms across six continents. Reyes is the first Asian to chair this 62-year-old organization, headquartered in North America. [...]
Helena Ribeiro is founder and CEO of Brazil-based Grupo Empreza which comprises six companies focused on the fields of HR, business process management, temporary management and outsourced services. In the 27 years since its founding, the group has grown organically and is recognized as one of the largest national players of its type. Ribeiro also [...]
Julia Robertson, CEO of the Impellam Group, started her recruitment career in 1979 and founded her own recruitment business, The Agency, in 1986. In 1996, Robertson assumed leadership of Tate, which she sold along with The Agency to Carlisle Staffing Services in 2000. Robertson then held several leadership roles for brands within the Carlisle group, [...]
Bettina Schaller runs the public affairs activities of The Adecco Group, encompassing regulatory and policy issues and the group’s memberships in employers’ associations at the global and European scale. She is a board member of the World Employment Confederation, VP of World Employment Confederation Europe and chair of the WEC Europe Public Affairs Committee. She [...]
Temporary staffing pioneer Yoshiko Shinohara started Tempstaff from her apartment in 1973 at the age of 38. Having first encountered temporary staffing while working in Australia, Shinohara returned to Japan to launch her company, teaching English in the evenings to pay her rent. In 2008, the group’s holding company, Temp Holdings, was established, and has [...]
Lyndsey Simpson is CEO of The Curve Group, a UK-based privately owned recruitment process and HR outsourcing company. Prior to The Curve Group, Simpson spent 11 years undertaking a number of global strategic and M&A leadership positions in the banking and insurance sectors. She has been named among “UK’s 50 Most Inspirational Female Entrepreneurs”; “Top [...]
