Tig Gilliam is Chief Executive Officer at Adecco Group North America, part of the world's largest recruitment and workforce solutions provider. He is also a member of the Adecco Group Executive Committee, which comprises the top six leaders of the global organization. Adecco Group is a Fortune Global 500 company that connects more people to more jobs at more companies than anyone else in the world. Gilliam leads a diverse portfolio of businesses in North America with over 1,200 career centers connecting 120,000 people with meaningful work on any given day and supporting another 200,000 through career transitions each year.

Among Gilliam's many roles, he is instrumental in driving growth across Adecco Group NA's professional business lines, which includes the recent acquisition of specialty staffing leader MPS Group, while expanding the company's dominant core office and industrial staffing business – of which it is the market leader across North America and around the world. During his leadership at the company, Adecco Group has been recognized as the AARP's Best Employer for Workers Over 50, the World Diversity Leadership Summit for its work in advancing diversity issues, the Henry Viscardi Jr. Legacy Award for helping disabled individuals find great job opportunities and is on Leadership Excellence's list of Top Leadership Development Programs.

Prior to joining Adecco in March of 2007, Gilliam was a partner and the global and Americas leader of supply chain management for IBM Global Business Services. While at IBM, he served in various management positions, including Americas leader for consumer goods, wholesale distribution and the software industry. Also, he was personally selected by the chairman of IBM to serve on the Integration and Values Team – a group of senior executives chosen to lead the integration of the company's businesses according to the organization's core values. In 2002, Gilliam joined IBM through its acquisition of PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, where he started his career in 1987. He became a partner at Price Waterhouse in 1996 and held various leadership roles in operations improvement, technology enablement, organizational change and performance management. At the time of the acquisition by IBM, he was global and Americas leader for its consumer products and retail industry practices.

Gilliam brings strong expertise in managing a diversified services portfolio and a track record of sustainable growth in revenue and profitability. He holds an MBA from Columbia University and an MS in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He is also an executive member of the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy (CECP) and is a frequent commentator on the economy and labor market with top media outlets including CNBC, CNN, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.

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Stephen Nolan is Chief Financial Officer at Adecco Group North America, part of the world's largest recruitment and workforce solutions provider. In his role as CFO, Nolan manages all tax, IT, service center, finance, procurement and risk management functions for the North American operations of Adecco Group. He works with other members of senior management to build financial strategies around sales growth, margin improvement and increased profitability.

Nolan is a financial and operations executive with broad international experience in transportation, energy and consumer products for both new and established businesses.  His career experience has been marked by key contributions to the development and improvement of processes, controls, and financial transparency at DHL Danzas Air & Ocean, Newpower Holdings and Reckitt Benckiser. Throughout these experiences, Nolan has demonstrated a focus on the bottom line, a history of proven results and the ability to leverage technology and data to gain efficiencies and lower costs.

Nolan earned a bachelor of commerce degree from University College Dublin and is a chartered accountant.

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Bryan leads corporate IT strategy, development, and implementation for Adecco Group North America, part of the world's largest recruitment and workforce solutions provider.

Bryan has over 20 years of experience with significant expertise in the management of large multi-national systems implementations. Prior to joining Adecco in April 2009, he served as Director, Solutions and Asset Management for IBM's Center for Business Optimization. As one of the original executives appointed to the Center in 2005, Bryan successfully established the operating model and processes for the unit; then defined and assembled the development, commercialization, legal, finance, and operations functions. The Center helped 1,500 clients, and in 2009 was fully integrated into IBM's Business Analytics and Optimization consulting services line.

Other executive management roles included Director, IT Strategy and Architecture in IBM's Office of the CIO, and Partner leading the Americas IT Architecture and Infrastructure practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, working with clients in the consumer and industrial products industries. He has a BS in Computer Science from Michigan State University, has participated in executive programs at the Harvard Business School in the US and INSEAD in France, and is married and lives in Port Washington, New York.

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Ed Blust is Chief Marketing Officer of Adecco Group North America, part of the world's largest recruitment and workforce solutions provider. Blust is responsible for helping deliver corporate objectives through implementing targeted recruiting and marketing tools, as well as public relations strategies that are designed to increase sales, and client and associate loyalty.

With the Adecco Group for 12 years, Blust was Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President of Ajilon Professional Staffing in North America since 2001.  He previously worked in sales, marketing and creative positions for premier marketing communications firms, as well as Lockheed Corporation (now Lockheed Martin).

Blust serves on the Staffing Advisory Board of Monster.com and participates on the Marketing and Public Relations Board of the American Staffing Association.  He is also an active member of the Public Relations Society of America and the American Marketing Association.  A graduate of Rowan University, he earned a Bachelor's degree in Communications.

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Daniel Masata is Senior Vice President, Integration, at Adecco Group North America, part of the world's largest recruitment and workforce solutions provider. Masata is responsible for leading the firm's integration efforts following the merger of MPS Group with Adecco North America. His primary focus is on strengthening Adecco's portfolio of services and solutions and unlocking important synergies in order to combine the strengths of both companies to the benefit of nearly 8,000 colleagues, over 15,000 clients and the additional 100,000 temporary associates it employs everyday across North America.

Masata began his career in the staffing industry ten years ago as s working student in a multi-business line branch of German subsidiary DIS AG. Most recently, Masata was Lead Project Manager for Adecco Group's global strategy execution project Adecco Profitable Growth 2012. In this role, Masata and his small team coordinated more than fifty work streams across ten of the Group's key countries, embracing the valuable work of the local teams. Among other areas, the project featured implementation work and best practice exchange around delivery models, associate management, business specialization or colleague retention.

Immediately prior to this, Masata gained deep insights into the business during a two year term as Executive Management Assistant to the Adecco Group CEO & CFO. His experience from this role ranges from M&A projects over Finance and Corporate governance projects to his involvement in a global strategy review and various strategic client initiatives. Masata has seen Adecco business, people, operating models and business environments in Europe, Asia, North and Latin America and Australia.

At DIS AG, Daniel experienced all aspects of day-to-day branch activity in both a General and Professional Staffing environment while simultaneously completing his university studies. After completing his assignments and earning his degree, Masata was appointed Executive Management Assistant to the CEO & CFO at DIS AG's headquarters. During this time, DIS AG received a take-over offer by Adecco and finally became part of the Adecco Group.

Masata earned a master degree in International Management and Strategic Controlling from the University of Mannheim, Germany, where he also studied American and English Studies. In addition, Masata spent a year in Nice, France to complete business and economics major studies at the Ecole Des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (EDHEC). Masata is an Adecco Leadership Program II graduate from IMD Global Business School in Lausanne, Switzerland. He is a German national and lives in New York with his wife and two children.

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Joyce Russell is Executive Vice President and President of Adecco Staffing U.S., a subsidiary of Adecco Group North America and part of the world's largest recruitment and workforce solutions provider.  Joyce Russell runs the company's general staffing business, of which it is the market leader across the U.S.. Russell's mission is to provide outstanding talent and workforce solutions to great companies through Adecco's network of more than 500 offices and more than 1,400 colleagues.

A passionate and strategic leader, Russell has been with Adecco for 22 years and has firmly established herself as the highest ranking woman in the staffing industry. She is known as "the quintessential people person in the people business" and following her first year of working with Adecco as a Branch Manager, Joyce was named "Rookie of the Year". Six positions later, she maintains a strong bond with Adecco's colleagues and customers.

In 2009 Russell was named one of "The 10 Most Intriguing People in Staffing" by Staffing Industry Review Magazine. She is also a recipient of the Highest Leaf Award from the Women's Venture Fund and an Achiever's Award Honoree by the Long Island Center for Business and Professional Women. Russell was selected as one of two Adecco USA employees to be an official torch runner at the Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia and is a member of the Committee of 200 and supports the Young Life and Hope Unlimited organizations.

Joyce is passionate about key issues including: women in the workforce, ensuring diversity and inclusion as well as corporate social responsibility. A native Floridian, Joyce holds a degree in Business and Communications from Baylor University.  She is married and has two sons attending college in North Carolina.

Adecco Group North America provides clients with the talent they need, and helps solve the business challenges they face today – and will encounter tomorrow. Adecco's services include contingent staffing and direct hire recruitment for large enterprise organizations across all skill sets, workforce solutions and consulting including Managed Services Programs (MSP) & Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO), career transition and leadership consulting, and specialty staffing, project solutions and consulting services.

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Steven Hinckley is President & COO, Global MSP Solutions at Adecco Group, the world's largest recruitment and workforce solutions provider. He is responsible for leading the consulting arm of Adecco Group North America for large enterprise clients across key industries including financial services, telecommunications and IT. His team's service portfolio includes enterprise workforce assessment, strategy development and management of recruitment process outsourcing (RPO), vendor management system (VMS) and managed services provider (MSP) programs.

Hinckley joined Adecco Group from IBM Business Consulting Services where he was a partner in its life Sciences Practice. He joined IBM when it acquired the consulting arm of PricewaterhouseCoopers. His expertise includes global supply chain strategy design and implementation, global SAP implementation, global CRM strategy development and CRM implementation. His time with IBM and PricewaterhouseCoopers included a six-year international assignment in Tokyo Japan where he led the Consumer Goods Practice and a number of client engagements within Japan and across Asia.

Prior to IBM, he was the director of logistics and planning for Vie de France Yamakazi, Inc. He also held several senior positions on the operations team at Nabisco Biscuit for seven years.He has a BS in Finance from the University of Maryland College Park and has participated in Wharton Executive Programs.

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John P. "Jack" Cullen is EVP & President of the Information Technology specialty brands at Adecco Group North America, part of the world's largest recruitment and workforce solutions provider. Cullen is responsible for leading Adecco's specialty staffing businesses in the Information Technology sector.

Cullen has been in the information technology resource management business since 1985. Most recently, Cullen was President of Modis, a former MPS Group company. Cullen held this position since November 2000 and during his tenure he successfully improved the branch network by standardizing delivery, developing metric tracking for management and defining a culture that became the foundation for all Modis offices. He also grew Top 5 client revenue by 50% and temp revenue by 28%, in addition to achieving direct hire growth of 300% over four years.  Prior to joining the IT sector, Cullen worked for Johnson & Johnson and Colgate Palmolive as a sales professional and account manager.

Cullen is a former President of the Washington Chapter of the National Association of Computer Consulting Businesses (NACCB) and has been a speaker and panelist on numerous industry panels.

He currently serves on the Board of the Washington DC Basketball Hall of Fame. Cullen is a graduate of the University of Maryland and serves on the Board of Trustees at the University.  He and his wife Carolyn currently reside in Rockville, Maryland.  They have two daughters, Kristin and Kathleen.  Cullen enjoys playing basketball and an occasional round of golf as well as watching the University of Florida Lacrosse team where his daughter, Kathleen, is a midfielder. 

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Jeff Rupp is President of the Project Solutions & Outsourcing organization at Adecco Group North America, part of the world's largest recruitment and workforce solutions provider. Rupp is responsible for leading the firm's IT solutions and consulting brands, which include Ajilon Professional Services, Glotel and Idea Integration.

Rupp joined Ajilon Consulting, a subsidiary of Adecco Group NA, in 2000 to lead the firm's project delivery model which is focused on providing clients with outstanding expertise and service across all areas of IT staffing and project consulting. With over 25 years of management and consulting experience, Rupp has worked with a wide range of Fortune 500 companies helping to build the right solutions for their unique technology needs. Prior to joining Ajilon Consulting, Rupp held executive level positions at organizations including IBM, KPMG and Synertec Systems.

He is a graduate of West Chester University with Bachelor's of Science degree in Education

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John L. Marshall III, Esq., is EVP & President of the accounting, legal and office specialty brands at Adecco Group North America, part of the world's largest recruitment and workforce solutions provider. Marshall is responsible for leading Adecco's professional staffing businesses in these sectors.

Marshall has been in the professional staffing industry since 1998 when he joined the law department of the former MPS Group Inc. as Vice President. In that position, he was responsible for the legal aspects of over $1 billion in acquisitions and dispositions. In 2001, Marshall was promoted to Senior Vice President of MPS Group Services and then was named President of Special Counsel, Inc., the legal services unit of the former MPS Group and the nation's largest provider of specialized legal staffing and related services with 39 offices and nine Turnkey Legal Centers. In August 2006, Marshal was named President of Accounting Principals, the accounting and finance staffing unit of the former MPS Group.

Marshall began his legal career in 1988 as an associate in the Corporate Finance department at King & Spalding, one of the South's oldest law firms, where he provided counsel for public and private equity and debt financings, mergers and acquisitions, general corporate matters, and contract negotiations.  In 1993, Marshall left King & Spalding to become a member of the AT&T law department, where he became the chief legal officer for AT&T American Transtech, an employee and consumer services outsourcing company based in Jacksonville, Florida.

John remains a member of the State Bar of Georgia and is on the Board of Directors of the City of Jacksonville's Job Opportunity Board. A native of Jacksonville, Florida, Marshall received his undergraduate education at the University of Georgia.  After graduating Magna Cum Laude with Honors with majors in both Economics and Political Science, he and his wife, Dale, returned to Florida where he attended the University of Florida College of Law.  In 1988, Marshall received his J.D. with Honors and was awarded the Order of the Coif.

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David Alexander is President of Soliant Health, a leading specialty health and medical staffing provider and part of Adecco Group, the world's largest recruitment and workforce solutions provider. Alexander is reponsible for leading strategy and business development for the company which specializes in finding and placing highly skilled and experienced medical and health professionals to hospitals and healthcare providers across the United States.

Alexander began his career in healthcare staffing in 1992 when he founded Atlanta-based Elite Medical.  Elite found a niche by providing traveling and contract healthcare professionals to medical facilities throughout the country. By 2002 he led the company to number 218 on Inc. Magazine's list of 500 fastest growing companies in the country. Later that year, Alexander sold Elite to MPS Group as its platform into the healthcare industry. Elite Medical was subsequently re-branded as Soliant Health and is now one of the nation's 10 largest providers of travel healthcare staffing services.

Alexander is the past president of the Georgia Association of Personnel Services and serves on the board of the Georgia State University College of Health and Human Sciences.  He holds a BBA and MS in strategic management from Georgia State University where he was recognized by the school's Robinson College of Business as one of the Outstanding Young Alumnus.

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Bob Cecchini is President of Entegee, a leading specialty engineering staffing and solutions provider and part of Adecco Group, the world's largest recruitment and workforce solutions provider. Cecchini is responsible for leading Adecco's engineering workforce solutions businesses, which operates in over 25 offices across the United States and places approximately 2,500 engineers and technical professionals in both temporary and permanent positions.

Most recently, Cecchini was President of ENTEGEE, a former MPS Group company. Cecchini joined MPS Group Inc. in 1992 as Chief Operating Officer of Additional Technical Support Inc. When MPS purchased ATSI in February of 1996, Cecchini was promoted to President. In July 1998, the name of the division changed to ENTEGEE Engineering Technical Services to reflect the national scope of services, and Cecchini was named President.

Prior to joining MPS he was Senior Vice President at Logica North America for 4 years and Vice President at Data Architects for 5 years prior to that position. Cecchini holds a Bachelor's Degree in Accounting from Bentley College and an MBA from Babson College.

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Peter Alcide is President and Chief Operating Officer of Lee Hecht Harrison (LHH), a leading career transition and talent development business and part of Adecco Group, the world's largest recruitment and workforce solutions provider. Alcide is responsible for driving LHH's continued aggressive growth and diversification plans. He has an extraordinary range of industry knowledge and skills to draw on, particularly in the M&A arena, as he focuses on building LHH's industry leading Career Transition business line and spearheading the company's successful expansion in the Talent Solutions sector.

A member of LHH's executive team earlier in his career, Alcide returned to LHH to assume the EVP/COO position after three years at Adecco Staffing North America, most recently as Chief of Staff. Before being named to the Chief of Staff role, he was Adecco Staffing North America's Chief Financial Officer. Prior to that he spent ten years with LHH, where he rose to the role of EVP, Chief Financial and Corporate Development Officer for LHH worldwide.

Alcide began his career with Ernst & Young, where his accomplishments earned him an early promotion to the Manager level. That was the first of several key executive positions, which included significant M&A experience.

Alcide holds an MBA and BBA in accounting from Pace University, and is a Certified Public Accountant, licensed in New York.

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Doug Leeby is President of Beeline at Adecco Group, the world's largest recruitment and workforce solutions provider. Beeline provides best-in-class solutions focused squarely on managing the key components of the contingent workforce and the employment lifecycle. They offer technology, content and services addressing recruitment and sourcing, talent management, and learning and performance optimization.

Leeby has been with the organization since 2002 leading various functions including product management, business development, partner relations, talent management and marketing. Most recently, Leeby served as Senior Vice President overseeing business development, marketing, and the talent management business unit. Prior to joining Beeline, Mr. Leeby spent 10 years in the consumer products industry serving in various sales, marketing, and strategic planning roles. Mr. Leeby attended Vanderbilt University where he received a Masters in Human Resources and a Bachelor of Arts degree.

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