Philippe Foriel-Destezet

Philippe Foriel-Destezet is a French billionaire businessman. He owns 18% of the Swiss-based employment agency Adecco, as well as a significant interest in AKILA Finance.

  • 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.

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