Philippe Foriel-Destezet
London, United Kingdom
Master of Business Administration, HEC Paris
France
employment agency, Self Made
$2,600,000,000
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#916 Billionaires 2019
Philippe Foriel-Destezet founded his staffing company, Ecco, in 1964; by the 1980s it was France's largest supplier of temporary personnel.Foriel-Destezet merged the firm with Klaus Jacobs's Swiss firm Adia to create Adecco in 1996. He stepped down as co-chairman of Swiss staffing firm Adecco in 2005 and was made an honorary president in 2006.Through his Luxembourg holding company, Akila Finance, he retains more than 4% of the firm.The company now employs more than 33,000 people full-time across 5,000 branches in over 60 countries.
Foriel-Destezet has donated to HEC Foundation in France, a 130-year old institution that gives scholarships and grants to students and professors at HEC Paris.
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