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Jacksonville, FL-based Shanthi Flynn as Chief Human Resources Officer
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
Shanthi Flynn is a British national, born 1964. Shanthi Flynn will join the Adecco Group as Chief Human Resources Officer as of March 1, 2016. She completed a Bachelor of Science with joint honours in Physiology and Pharmacology at the University of Manchester in 1986. Upon graduating, she began her professional career at Ford Motor Company in the UK and joined the Boots Company in 1995, where she held positions of increasing responsibility becoming Director of HR for all of Boots International in 2000. In 2003, she joined AS Watson Group in Hong Kong and in 2005 she was promoted Group International HR Director. After founding her own consulting firm, S Flynn Consulting, in 2006, she became Senior Vice President Human Resources of Walmart Asia, based in Hong Kong. In this role, she led the HR team for Walmart`s retail businesses, which employ close to 150,000 people in more than 800 stores in the region. Shanthi Flynn is Chair HR Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong.
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