Brand History And Mission
William H. Stoller and Robert A. Funk founded Express Employment International in 1983 and began franchising two years later. With 850+ locations throughout the U.S, Canada, South Africa and Australia, we are the #1 flexible recruitment franchise for people, communities and businesses.
“I am humbled by what we’ve accomplished together… putting people to work, giving them purpose, providing hope.”
Robert A. Funk, Founder & President of Express Employment Professionals
From a humble storefront in Spokane, Washington to more than 850 global locations, we know that hard work earns great rewards.
Meet The Team
Our experienced Sydney-based head office team works collaboratively with their U.S. colleagues to provide expert support to our Australia Franchise Owners.
CFO
Chris is a commercially focussed finance leader with over twenty years experience in Australia and Europe in customer focused businesses across the retail, franchise, hospitality, manufacturing and retail property sectors.
His key focuses are: business partnering, transformation and high growth strategy development and execution.
EEP Healthcare Head of Product
Personally, I come from a large European family with 3 sisters and 7 nephews. We all live a 5-minute drive from each other meaning we are quite often together and too involved in each other’s lives lol. Meeting at our mum’s house (Parliament House affectionately nicknamed by one of my nephews) for a quick coffee most afternoons often leads to chaos with us all talking over each other and my mother often telling us to ‘keep it down, what will the neighbours say?’. Although this can sometimes be too much, I would not change them for the world. I enjoy traveling to new places and have travelled across quite a lot of Europe and on weekends enjoy shopping, lunch / dinner with friends and watching football (the real roundball game) & Formula1.
I have worked in the Healthcare sector for over 30 years, working in private practice, public and private hospital sectors, in operational management roles.During COVID I decided to move out of direct healthcare environment (like many at the time) and into healthcare recruitment taking on the rebuild of the NSW /ACT nursing workforce division at one of the largest workforce solutions companies in Australia. Establishing a team and repairing relationships with our clients as customer service as our primary focus enabled the successful rebuild and expansion of the business from 3 to 6 branches in the 2.5 years spent at the organization. The experience and knowledge gained during this time met my personal needs of professional development.
Managing Director
With 25+ years of sales leadership and franchise development experience, Brook helps lead international expansion of the $4.6 billion industry giant Express Employment Professionals. With his help and leadership, Express is now the #1 temporary staffing franchise, globally. Brook holds a B.A. from West Virginia University, is an International Franchise Association Certified Franchise Executive and a member of several IFA committees.
Head of Learning and Development
Mandy comes from a strong recruitment sales background, with 20 plus years of experience working across New Zealand and Internationally. She started her recruitment career with Kelly Services back in South Africa as a Permanent Consultant, but very quickly progressed to Agency Manager, then Business Development Manager and finally into the General Manager position, responsible for 50 plus staff across 6 locations.
In 2009 Mandy moved to New Zealand and joined Frontline Recruitment Group as a Recruitment Consultant, progressing to Agency Manager, then Multi Site Manager after opening 2 new industry sectors within New Zealand. She joined the Frontline Support Office Team in 2015 as Group Sales & Operations Manager and was involved in a number of Franchise Sales during this period.
Mandy is passionate about recruitment because it gives her the opportunity to make a difference, having been a recruiter, manager, trainer and coach, she works tirelessly to build teams and future recruiters within the industry.