Degree in Commercial Engineering, ICHEC Brussels Management School. Formerly with Henkel and ISS. 2000, Managing Director, Creyf’s Interim, Belgium; then Chief Executive Officer, Solvus; Chief Operating Officer, USG People; 2007-09, Chief Executive Officer, Humares. 2009, joined the Adecco Group as Member of the Executive Committee, responsible first for Northern Europe, then for the Group’s largest market France; 2015, Chief Exeutive Officer. Adecco is the world’s leading workforce solutions partner. Its international brands include Adecco, Modis, Badenoch & Clark, Spring Professional, Lee Hecht Harrison, Pontoon, Adia and YOSS. As a Fortune Global 500 Company, the Adecco Group connects 700,000 jobseekers with rewarding employment every day, helps 350,000 people yearly to transition to work, and supports more than 100,000 organizations with the talent, advice and cutting-edge technology they need to succeed in an ever-changing and highly-competitive global economy. With 33,000 full-time team members in 60 countries, the Adecco Group ranked 2nd on the 2017 World’s Best Workplaces list. Former: Member of the Board, World Employment Confederation; Vice-President, World Employment Confederation Europe. Chair, Global Apprenticeship Network (GAN); Member, ILO Global Commission on the Future of Work; Steward, World Economic Forum System Initiative on Education, Work and Gender.
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