Tina Ling, Hays France & Benelux managing director, has been the driving force behind Hays’ EMEA growth. With 29 years’ experience in the recruiting industry, Ling grew the France business from six people in 2001 to more than 600 people today. In 2005, she took over the management of the acquisition and integration of temp [...]
Aldagh McDonogh took the reins as group CEO of multinational professional services recruiter Morgan McKinley this year. A highly experienced global marketer and business strategist, McDonogh joined Morgan McKinley as transformation director in 2010. She previously was co-founder and owner of Alternatives, a marketing company in Ireland. She was formerly global marketing director for Baileys [...]
Shona McManus is CEO and owner of Osborne. Over her 18 years in the recruitment industry, McManus has successfully led and transformed recruitment businesses in both multinational and indigenous Irish recruitment firms. Since taking the helm of Osborne in April 2013, she guided it through the still-rocky economy to see it emerge in a strong [...]
CEO of Affinity Workforce, Nicola McQueen has worked in the recruitment industry for more than 20 years, first joining Hays then moving to Capita. By 2010, she was appointed as managing director of Capita Resourcing and significantly grew the business, launching new services internationally and integrating strategic acquisitions to enhance the existing proposition. In 2016, McQueen was appointed as executive director of the Workplace [...]
Annemarie Muntz is president of the World Employment Confederation, the voice of the employment industry at the global level, representing labor-market enablers in 50 countries and seven of the largest international workforce solutions companies. She chaired its European counterpart, WEC-Europe, from 2005 to 2018. She is an influential lobbyist in the international arena representing the interests of the employment and recruitment industry at large. In [...]
Esther O'Callaghan is founder and CEO of the Thrive Youth Trust, formerly known as the OPERA Global Youth Foundation, a global recruitment charity that aims to help disadvantaged youth find employment. She founded the charity in 2016 and to date, it has raised more than £100,000 to support hundreds of disadvantaged young people into work. [...]
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 150 franchised branches throughout France. Pottier-Caudron started her recruitment career with Adecco as a director for the Midi-Pyrenees region [...]
Entrepreneurial business leader Kelly Quirk became CEO and majority shareholder 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. Quirk has led Fortune 500 businesses through rapid growth and transformation, including [...]
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. She then held several leadership roles for brands within the Carlisle group, including SRG, Tate and Carlisle Managed Solutions. Following the [...]
Bettina Schaller, a board member of the World Employment Confederation, was appointed president of the WEC Europe in December 2017. She also 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 scales. Schaller is also a member of the B20 Employment and Education Task Force; sits on [...]
