Greg Savage, CEO Aquent International

Greg is the CEO of Aquent International the world's largest marketing staffing agency with 70 offices in 17 countries.

Over the past five years Greg has overseen Aquent's diversification and growth strategy in the International market, refocusing the company on niche sectors within the marketing, creative, and communication fields--an initiative that has secured Aquent's leadership position in this space and resulted in the business growing sevenfold in five years.

With a recruitment career that spans thirty years, including multioffice management of recruitment operations in Australia, New Zealand, England, Europe, and many Asian countries, including Japan and China, Greg was promoted to Aquent International CEO in 2005. Formerly CEO of Asia Pacific, the promotion added nine offices in seven European countries under his responsibility.

In the early eighties Greg managed the London office of the United Kingdom's largest accounting recruiter for two years before returning to Australia to run thirty-five consultants in the Sydney office of Accountancy Placements (now the Hays Group), where he was invited to join the board of directors at age 27.

In 1987 Greg founded Recruitment Solutions with two colleagues and built the company to the point where it had in excess of 150 staff, eight offices in five states, and group sales of in excess of $50 million per annum. Recruitment Solutions successfully listed on the Australian Stock Exchange in July 1998 and became one of the pre-eminent human resources groups in Australia.

Having seen Recruitment Solutions through a successful float, including the achievement of all prospectus sales and profit forecasts, Greg retired from the business in late 1999.

In April 2001, Greg joined Aquent in the role of CEO--Asia Pacific. As chief executive for its Asia Pacific operations, Greg had responsibility for Aquent's business throughout the region, including offices in Auckland, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka, Seoul, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Kuala Lumpur, and Singapore.

Greg is a former vice president of the Recruitment and Consulting Services Association (RCSA) in New South Wales, has sat on the National Board of the RCSA, and acted for several years as convenor of the RCSA Ethics Committee. In 2004 Greg was made an Honorary Life Member of the RCSA in recognition of his contribution to the recruitment and staffing industry. He has been a frequent speaker at staffing and recruitment conferences all over the world for the past fifteen years.

Greg is an honours graduate in psychology of the University of Cape Town.

For more information, visit Greg's blog: www.GregSavage.com.au

Greg also presents seminars for recruiting firm owners and directors throughout Australia and New Zealand.  For more information please visit:

http://www.savageseminars.com.au/