The diverse portfolio of businesses that Gilliam leads accounts for over 15% of the organization's total worldwide sales and is a leading profit driver for the Fortune Global 500 company. Among Gilliam's many roles, he is instrumental in driving growth across Adecco's professional business lines, 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.

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 University of Virginia's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

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In his role as CFO, Stephen Nolan manages all tax, IT, service center, finance, procurement and risk management functions for the North American operations of Adecco. He works with other members of senior management to build financial strategies around sales growth, margin improvement and increased profitability.

Stephen 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. His career demonstrates 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.

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

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Adecco Engineering & Technical  and Medical & Science

James leads both the U.S. Adecco Engineering & Technical business line and as the U.S. Adecco Medical & Science business line.

Parker plays a significant role in sustaining Adecco’s position as the global leader in workforce solutions. He oversees field operations and executes strategies for the company’s professional business lines that provide talent to the Engineering, IT, Scientific, Clinical and Professional markets. He manages all sales and service initiatives, and leads the talent acquisition and development strategies for two Adecco U.S. business lines.

With his strong focus on customers, Parker has become a respected leader in the staffing industry and maintained close relationships with senior leaders of Global Fortune 500 corporations. For them, he develops and executes workforce solutions that optimize resources, improve productivity and maximize financial goals. He has attained an exceptional track record by providing high-quality service, commitment and leadership, producing outstanding results.

An effective and strategic leader, Parker has been with the Adecco Group organization for 30 years, and has held many positions, including Executive Vice President, Senior Vice President of the Northeast and Mid-East Divisions, Area Vice President, Area Manager, Branch Manager, Salesperson and Recruiter.

He is a graduate of the University of Maine with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration.

Adecco connects more people to more jobs at more companies than anyone else in the world. We employ 5 million people each year in 60 national economies. In North America, we have over 1,200 career centers and on any given day connect 120,000 people to meaningful work.

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Enterprise Workforce Solutions

Steven Hinckley 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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As the Chief Marketing Officer for Adecco Group North America, Ed leads all initiatives around development and implementation of strategic marketing and communications programs to build brand awareness and support for the business.

Ed assumed this position after serving as Senior Vice President, Marketing at Ajilon,a Adecco Group company. He joined the company in April of 1994 after working in sales, marketing and creative positions for the world's premier marketing communications firms and top corporations. Ed is an active member of the Public Relations Society of America and the American Marketing Association. He graduated from Rowan University with a Bachelor's Degree in Communications.

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Bryan leads Adecco Group's IT strategy, development and implementation. With over 20 years of experience with significant expertise in the management of large multinational systems implementations, most recently, Bryan 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 business model and processes for the unit; then defined and assembled the development, commercialization, legal, finance and operations teams. The Center now operates globally, and has delivered results for over 1,500 clients.

Other executive management roles included Director, IT Strategy and Architecture for IBM’s corporate Office of the CIO, and Partner leading the Americas IT Architecture and Infrastructure practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.

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George is senior vice president and general counsel for Adecco Group North America, headquartered in Melville, NY. Prior to his 25 years as corporate counsel for several national and numerous independent staffing companies, George spent a decade in the employee benefits field, managed a legal research company (a niche staffing business), created payroll software, and administered one of the first drug-testing programs while serving as an Army officer in Vietnam. He was a member of the board of directors of the Texas Association of Staffing in 1993 and has served on the ASA legal and legislative committee since 1998.

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