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Jacksonville, FL-based Mark De Smedt as Regional Head of Northern Europe
About the Company
The Adecco Group is the world`s leading provider of HR solutions. With over 31,000 FTE employees and more than 5,000 branches, in over 60 countries and territories around the world, we offer a wide variety of services, connecting more than 650,000 associates with over 100,000 clients every day. The services we offer fall into the broad categories of temporary staffing, permanent placement, career transition and talent development, as well as outsourcing and consulting. The Adecco Group is based in Zurich-Glattbrugg, Switzerland and we are a Fortune Global 500 company listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange.
About the Person
Mark De Smedt is the Regional Head of Northern Europe, effective January 1, 2016. Mr De Smedt, 54, will continue in his current role until a successor is appointed. During his term as Adecco Group Chief Human Resources Officer, he has strengthened the Group`s HR function globally and locally, extended the Adecco Academy to all continents and improved the Group`s retention rate. In 2009 Mark joined Adecco as Country Manager for Belgium & Luxembourg. He was previously a founder of Professional Staffing specialist XPE Group, acquired by Adecco. Prior to this, he was responsible for Adecco`s Benelux operations between 2002 and 2007. Before Mark joined the staffing industry he held various executive positions at Wang, Apple, Citibank and Scoot in France, Spain and Belgium.
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