Adecco Group AG Announces Executive Leadership Appointments
September 17, 2020 at 01:00 am EDT
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The Adecco Group announced two executive leadership appointments designed to enhance client and candidate experience, ensure greater global alignment in its go-to-market approach, accelerate digitalisation, and drive profitable growth. The Group is taking the final steps in its transition to a brand-driven organisational model, structured around solutions-based Business Groups, with the appointment of Christophe Catoir as President of the Adecco brand, effective 1 January 2021. In this role, he will assume responsibility for the Adecco business globally, overseeing the Group's workforce solutions operations (general staffing) with some EUR 17.5 billion in annual sales (full-year 2019). He will remain a member of the Group's Executive Committee, reporting to Adecco Group Chief Executive Officer Alain Dehaze. The Group's portfolio of talent solutions and professional recruitment brands, including LHH, General Assembly, Spring and Badenoch + Clark, as well as local US professional brands, will continue to be led by Sergio Picarelli as President of Talent Solutions. Modis, the group's IT & Engineering Solutions business, will continue to be led globally by Jan Gupta as President of Modis. Additionally, the Adecco Group is further strengthening its sales and marketing function with the aim to drive profitable growth, further enhance client, associate and candidate experience, and accelerate digital transformation. As such, the Adecco Group announced the appointment of Valerie Beaulieu as Chief Sales and Marketing Officer and Member of the Group Executive Committee, effective 16 November 2020. Ms. Beaulieu currently serves as Chief Marketing Officer for Microsoft US, leading the marketing function across the region's B2B portfolio.
Adecco Group AG, formerly Adecco S.A., provides human resource (HR) services. The Company's services include temporary staffing, permanent placement, outsourcing, career transition. It operates through two business lines: Staffing and Solutions. The Staffing business line includes General Staffing, which includes Office and Industrial, and Professional Staffing, which includes Information Technology, Engineering and Technical, Finance and Legal, and Medical and Science. The Solutions business line includes Business Process Outsourcing, which includes Managed Service Programs, Recruitment Process Outsourcing and Vendor Management System, and Career Transition and Talent Development, which includes outplacement, career development, change management solutions, training and consulting. Its segments include France, North America, UK & Ireland, Germany & Austria, Japan, Italy, Benelux, Nordics, Iberia, Australia & New Zealand, Switzerland, Emerging Markets and Lee Hecht Harrison.