Board of Directors

Jeffrey A. Joerres is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ManpowerGroup. Having joined the organization in 1993, Joerres served as Vice President of Marketing and Senior Vice President of European Operations and Global Account Management. In 1999, he was named CEO, and in 2001, Chairman of the Board.

Joerres has led a transformation of ManpowerGroup’s business strategy, adding new business lines that have expanded the company’s ability to help clients and candidates win in the changing world of work.

Under Joerres’ tenure, ManpowerGroup has experienced rapid growth, expanding the footprint of the organization to 3,500 offices across 80 countries and territories.

ManpowerGroup has climbed the ranks of the Fortune 500 American companies list, moving from 183 to 140 in 2013. Also, for the second consecutive year, ManpowerGroup was the only company in the industry to be named to the Ethisphere Institute’s list of the World’s Most Ethical Companies. In 2011, Joerres received the inaugural Corporate Responsibility Lifetime Achievement Award for significant accomplishments made throughout his career in corporate social responsibility.

In 2012, Joerres was asked to co-chair the B20 Task Force on Employment, beginning with chairing a robust track of discussions at the 2012 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting and culminating, after months of collaboration with the private and public sectors, in delivering recommendations for focused actions to inspire sustainable employment creation at the G20 Summit in Mexico. Joerres also co-chaired the World Economic Forum on Latin America in April 2012, leading discussions on the region’s role in bolstering the global economy.

In addition to the ManpowerGroup board, Joerres has been designated Chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago board of directors for 2013, serves on the boards of Johnson Controls, the US Council for International Business (USCIB), and the Committee for Economic Development (CED), and is co-chair of the Future Workforce Committee of the Greater Milwaukee Committee. Joerres has a bachelor's degree from Marquette University’s College of Business Administration.

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Ms. Boswell joined the ManpowerGroup board of directors in 2007 and is a member of the Nominating & Governance and Audit Committee. She is currently the President of Global Brands for the Alberto-Culver Company, and is responsible for global brands such as Alberto V05, TRESemme, St. Ives and Nexxus, research and development, and consumer insights. Previously, she was the Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for Avon North America, and was responsible for implementing Avon North America's transformation agenda and its business strategies. Prior to Avon, Ms. Boswell held various management roles with Ford Motor Company and Estee Lauder Companies, Inc. She currently serves on the board of directors for Applebee's International Inc. and was named a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute in 2005. In early 2007, Pink Magazine and the Forte Foundation selected her as one of the Top 15 Women in Business. Boswell is a summa cum laude graduate of Boston University and received her Master's degree from the Yale School of Management.

William Downe joined the ManpowerGroup board of directors in April 2011. He is President and CEO of BMO Financial Group, a bank founded in 1817 that today serves 11 million personal, commercial, corporate and institutional customers in North America and internationally. Downe held the role of Chief Operating Officer prior to being appointed CEO in 2007 and has held a variety of senior management positions in the U.S. since joining the company in 1983. He is a member of the International Business Leaders Advisory Council of the Mayor of Beijing, and the International Advisory Council of Guanghua School of Management at Peking University. Downe is on the Board of Trustees of the Rush University Medical Center and a member of the Board's Compensation and Human Resources Committee. Downe is a director of Catalyst, Inc. and a member of Catalyst's Canadian Board of Advisors. Downe is also a member of the Economic Club of Chicago and Past President of the Federal Reserve Board's Federal Advisory Council.

Pat Hemingway Hall joined the ManpowerGroup board of directors in April 2011. She is CEO and President of Health Care Service Corporation, which operates Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas, the fourth largest health insurance company in the United States, serving over 13 million members. She previously held the role of Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of Internal Operations. She serves on the boards of Prime Therapeutics, MEDecision, BCS Financial, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, America's Health Insurance Plans, National Institute for Health Care Management, Salvation Army Advisory Board, and the Health Care Leadership Council. She has been named one of Crain's Chicago Business Magazine's Top 25 Women to Watch and one of the 100 Most Powerful People in Health Care by Modern Healthcare Magazine.

Mr. Mendoza has been a member of the ManpowerGroup Board of Directors since April 2009 and currently serves on the Audit Committee. He is a senior managing director of corporate finance advisory firm Atlas Advisors LLC, and from February 2007 to November 2008 he was the Chairman of Trinsum Group, an international strategic and financial advisory firm. Trinsum Group was formed as a result of a merger between Marakon Associates and Integrated Finance Limited, a financial advisory company which Mendoza co-founded and of which he served as Chairman of the Board and Managing Director from 2002 to 2007. Prior to that, he served as Managing Director of Goldman Sachs and spent over 30 years at J.P. Morgan & Co., where he became Director and Vice Chairman of the Board.

Mendoza also serves on the boards of Western Union, Inc. and Partner Re, as well as being a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He holds a B.A. from Yale and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar.

Libby Sartain joined the ManpowerGroup board of directors in 2010. She has a distinguished career in Human Resources, including acting as the CHRO of both Yahoo! Inc. and Southwest Airlines, where she led significant business transformation initiatives. Her focus has been growth companies where she developed employment brand strategies that helped grow the workforce exponentially while establishing company reputation as a leading employer of choice. Both Yahoo and Southwest were listed on the Fortune 100 Best Companies To Work For in America and the Fortune 500 during her tenure.

Sartain serves on the board of directors of Peet's Coffee & Tea, Inc., (Nasdaq: PEET), the leading super-premium coffee company. She is an adviser/board member to several start-up companies and consults with corporate clients. Sartain also served as chairman of the board of the Society for Human Resource Management in 2001 and was named fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources in 1998. She holds an MBA from the University of North Texas and a BBA from Southern Methodist University. She was named by Human Resources Executive as one of the 25 most powerful women in HR in 2005, and is also the author or co-author of three books on HR and Employer Branding.

Mr. Zore has been a member of the ManpowerGroup board of directors since 2000. He currently serves as Chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the Nominating and Governance Committee. Mr. Zore is the retired Chairman and CEO of Northwestern Mutual, a post held from June 2001 to July 2010. Prior to that he was President of Northwestern Mutual from March 2000 to June 2001 and Executive Vice President, Life and Disability Income Insurance - Northwestern Mutual, from 1998 to 2000. He is also a Trustee of Northwestern Mutual, director of Northwestern Mutual Services Fund, Inc., and a director of RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd.