Meet the 2023 champions of change in the €230 billion European staffing market. This list, compiled by SIA, includes entrepreneurs, CEOs, reformers, lawyers and businesspeople with a wide range of skills and accomplishments who hail from a multitude of staffing markets in the region. We honour the 21 members of the Staffing 100 Europe Hall of Fame whose indelible impact is at the core of the industry’s evolution. These lists are not a ranking, but a shout-out to those who have made a difference in the world of work.
Victorien Vaney

Victorien Vaney

Chairman and CEO Victorien Vaney has taken big strides to strengthen the position of Synergie globally. With more than 5,000 employees across 17 countries, Synergie recruits thousands of candidates every day and provides training that contributes to their employability. Under Vaney’s leadership, Synergie was awarded first place in Capital Magazine’s Diversity Champion’s list in the(…)

Francesco Baroni

Francesco Baroni

Francesco Baroni is the country manager in Italy for Gi Group Holding, a staffing firm that has grown to cover 30 countries across three continents. He recently shifted his role from global innovation and technology to ensure the company’s brands work together to create a sustainable and flexible global labour market that includes professional staffing,(…)

Juan Urdiales

Juan Urdiales

Co-CEO Juan Urdiales co-founded Job&Talent in 2009 with Felipe Navío with the goal of reducing youth unemployment in Spain, which at the time was a staggering 25%. Today, the company is a world-leading marketplace for essential workplace solutions across 10 countries, tearing down the barriers to job searching and hiring through the power of technology.(…)

Alan Savage

Alan Savage

Under founder and Chairman Alan Savage’s leadership, Orion Group delivers manpower solutions to some of the world’s leading blue-chip organisations in the world. Employing 2,500 contractors per year, Savage is spearheading the global expansion of his business, now reaching 32 offices throughout Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and Africa. In business for(…)

Melanie Forbes

Melanie Forbes

As managing director of Apsco OutSource since 2021, Melanie Forbes thrives on leading and evolving the trade body representing the outsource market. Having served leadership positions at Advantage xPO, Guidant Global, AMS and Rullion, Forbes brings more than three decades of industry experience to her current role. Forbes is particularly proud of Apsco OutSource’s continued(…)

Lorna Conn

Lorna Conn

CEO since January 2022, Lorna Conn has driven Irish talent solutions company Cpl through its next phase of expansion. Under her leadership, Cpl acquired the German IT contracting company Neusta. Most recently, Conn and her team attained the Gold Investors in Diversity EDI mark, making Cpl the first talent solutions provider and one of only(…)