workforce-solutions
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The Company That Put Gas Pipelines and Résumés Under One Roof
Blackstone Technology Group spent decades learning where complicated operations break. Its answer is an odd but coherent pair: find the humans who can fix the system, then build the software that makes one stubborn industry run.
Aequor Built a Staffing Machine for the Jobs Nobody Can Leave Empty
Hospitals need nurses, schools need therapists and laboratories need specialists - usually before a conventional hiring process has found its shoes. Aequor’s answer is a broad talent network, software for the paperwork and a human recruiter who still picks up the phone.
Saicon Spent 28 Years Selling Talent. Now It Wants to Sell the Whole Transformation.
The Kansas company built its first act by placing technical people. Its second act bundles those recruiters, engineers, acquired firms and an AI matching platform into one audacious promise: one vendor for both the transformation plan and the people who make it real.
Anju Abel Built a Career on the Part of Staffing Spreadsheets Miss
The LanceSoft CEO arrived in New York with optimism, built her way through the machinery of contingent work, and now argues that the industry’s most useful technology is still a human connection.
Larkin Dailey Built a Staffing Firm on the People Résumés Miss
After three decades in recruiting, the Employ Partners founder has turned a local lesson into a larger operating brief: look past the handshake, question the checklist, and build the relationship before you fill the role.
Drake International’s 75-Year Bet: Build the People Pipeline Before the Jobs Disappear
The Canadian staffing pioneer began by fixing the expensive mismatch between full-time payrolls and fluctuating work. Seventy-five years later, it is betting that the next recruitment advantage is not a bigger résumé pile - it is a better path from education to employment.
Employ Partners Built a Local Hiring Machine - Then Sold the Playbook
National staffing firms sell scale. Employ Partners sold something more stubbornly local: two Georgia offices, three specialist divisions and a habit of answering the phone - a model AnDek Holdings acquired in 2026 for an undisclosed sum.
Gerald Purgay’s Marketing Playbook: Make Complex Work Feel Human
After decades marketing talent businesses, Cross Country Healthcare’s CMO has learned that data earns attention, but clarity and trust are what move people.
The Temp Desk in Mayberry That Grew Into the Southeast's Second-Biggest Talent Source
It started in 1987 as a small-town temp desk in Andy Griffith's hometown. Nearly four decades later it runs 10-plus offices across three states - here's how the math actually works.
The Agency That Staffs the Agencies
Celeste Gudas started 24 Seven in 2000 to staff fashion and beauty brands. Twenty-five years and eight acquisitions later, it is the No. 2 marketing and creative staffing firm in America - and it is quietly betting that the future of hiring is a matching algorithm plus a human who has read 3,000 salary surveys.
Caroline Sabetti Has Spent a Career Making Work Visible
Before Caroline Sabetti became TrueBlue's chief storyteller, she learned the staffing business from the inside. Her route from operations and sales to the executive team explains why her marketing begins with work itself.
The $1.6 Billion Business of Making Labor Move on Demand
TrueBlue began with one Labor Ready branch and a blunt promise: put people to work quickly. Today, its apps, recruiters and on-site teams form an unusually broad operating system for the variable workforce.
Equifax
Most people meet Equifax as a credit score. Its larger business is the invisible machinery that helps decide who gets a mortgage, a job, a benefit or a second look - rebuilt on a $3 billion cloud platform and shadowed by the breach that changed the company.
ManpowerGroup
The company that helped invent temporary staffing is rebuilding itself for an age of AI agents, scarce skills and permanent uncertainty. Its wager is that better technology makes human judgment more valuable, not less.
Christophe Jeusse
Christophe Jeusse is the Chief Executive Officer of Peoplelink Group, a South Bend, Indiana staffing company that provides administrative, industrial, skilled trade and professional contract workers to businesses across the United States. A French-trained finance executive with more than two decades in employment services, he moved from the international side of France's Groupe Crit into the top job at its U.S. staffing arm. He was recognized by Candidately's World Staffing Awards as one of the top 100 staffing leaders to watch in 2023 and nominated again in 2025.
Peoplelink Group
Peoplelink Group is a South Bend, Indiana-based family of staffing and workforce-solutions companies founded in 1987. Operating a portfolio of specialized brands across administrative, light industrial, skilled trades, IT, professional, and quality-inspection services, it connects more than 5,000 workers with employers nationwide each day. Led by CEO Christophe Jeusse and backed by French staffing group Groupe CRIT, the company blends nationwide reach with a boutique, relationship-driven service model built on People, Process, and Performance.
LanceSoft, Inc.
LanceSoft is a global, minority-owned workforce solutions and technology staffing company founded in 2000 and headquartered in Herndon, Virginia. A certified Minority Business Enterprise and Woman-owned firm, it supplies temporary and permanent talent, Statement of Work services, payrolling, Recruitment Process Outsourcing, and engineering and application-development solutions to more than 110 enterprise and Fortune clients across banking, healthcare, technology, government, telecom, energy, and semiconductor sectors. With over 5,000 professionals and offices spanning six continents and 50-plus countries, LanceSoft pairs large-scale sourcing with a self-described 'human touch' approach to connecting talent with opportunity.
Jon Beck
Jon Beck is the Founder and CEO of Ursus, Inc., a San Francisco-based staffing firm he built from scratch in 2015 into one of the fastest-growing in the U.S., recognized by Staffing Industry Analysts for four consecutive years. A UC Berkeley psychology graduate and three-time rugby All-American, Beck brings 25+ years of technology executive experience across startups and global enterprises — including a stint at Cisco-acquired Embrane — to a company built around technical and creative talent for the digital transformation era.
Trilyon, Inc.
Trilyon, Inc. is a Cupertino-based, women-owned global workforce and consulting firm that has spent more than 15 years matching skilled technology talent to Fortune 500 and enterprise clients. Built on an 'outcome over output' philosophy, Trilyon delivers SOW-based consulting, contingent and direct-hire staffing, RPO, and managed services across AI/ML, cloud, Salesforce, healthcare IT, life sciences, and technical writing, with delivery teams spanning the US, Canada, LATAM, India, and Europe.
Carolyn Joshua
Carolyn Joshua is the President and CEO of Trilyon, Inc., a Silicon Valley-based IT staffing and workforce solutions firm she has led since 2009. Under her leadership, Trilyon has grown into a globally recognized, women-owned and minority-certified enterprise serving Fortune 500 companies including Google, Cisco, Samsung, Hitachi, and Oracle across North America, LATAM, EMEA, and APAC. A champion of diversity, inclusion, and women's empowerment, she serves as Co-Chair of USPAACC WISE and has been recognized with the J.P. Morgan Unity in Action Award (2025), the SheLeads Impact Award (2024), and named a Top 50 Women Leader of San Francisco (2023).
Nilesh Jadhav
Nilesh Jadhav is the CEO and Co-Founder of AMISEQ Inc., a Milpitas, California-based cybersecurity and intelligent automation company he co-founded in 2017. With over 18 years in IT — more than 12 of them in Silicon Valley — he has built AMISEQ into a globally recognized firm serving Fortune 500 clients across cybersecurity, RPA, product engineering, and UX design. In 2025, AMISEQ launched Z-Deploy, a zero-touch automation platform that compresses multi-day security deployments into under two hours, and expanded aggressively into the Middle East.
Surej Kp
Surej Kp is a Silicon Valley technology executive who became CEO of Intelliswift Software in March 2024 after five years as its President. With deep roots in global IT services - spanning TCS, Cognizant, and UST Global - he has spent decades scaling technology organizations across North America and beyond. Trained in Electronics Engineering and executive leadership at Harvard, he combines technical depth with business acumen, steering companies that bridge the gap between enterprise technology needs and skilled talent. At Intelliswift and previously connected to BayOne Solutions, he focuses on AI-powered workforce solutions, cloud enablement, and digital transformation for Fortune 500 clients.