Kelly® Professional & Industrial Business Unit Executive Announces Retirement; Ushers in Successor
09 Dicembre 2020 - 1:30PM
After a successful 20-year career in the staffing industry
– the last 13 years spent with Kelly – Deb Thorpe
will be retiring in January 2021 from her role as president of
Kelly’s Professional & Industrial (P&I) business unit. A
respected industry veteran, Thorpe’s deep operational expertise and
positive leadership style earned her a reputation as a
problem-solver who rallied teams to achieve results in the face of
change.
“I’ve worked with Deb for 13 years and have never seen her back
down from a professional challenge,” said Kelly President and CEO
Peter Quigley. “Her passion for Kelly’s mission and her unshakeable
faith in people has been the driving force behind her long and
successful career, and we’ve all benefited from her
leadership.”
Thorpe’s career spanned numerous senior leadership roles at
Kelly, most recently guiding the evolution of the company’s
largest, longest-standing staffing portfolio. After reimagining the
delivery model for Kelly’s U.S. operations in 2018-19, she led the
new Professional & Industrial business unit through the
challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and is widely credited
with accelerating the shift to a virtual model that enabled the
team to immediately pivot to all-remote work when the crisis hit.
Thorpe’s legacy at Kelly includes serving as a founding member and
chairperson of the company’s first internal business resource
group, Leadership in Action, dedicated to supporting the rise of
women and future leaders. Outside of Kelly, she was repeatedly
named to Staffing Industry Analysts’ (SIA) Global Power 150 – Women
in Staffing list and recognized by SIA as one of the most
influential people in the staffing industry. Thorpe had a 20-year
career in the automotive sector prior to transitioning to the
staffing industry.
Quigley has identified Tim Dupree as Thorpe’s successor in
leading P&I. As president of P&I, Dupree will be
responsible for driving profitable growth and increased
specialization in the office professional, finance, contact center,
and light industrial business in the U.S., Canada and Puerto
Rico.
He steps into his new role with 20 years of Kelly experience and
a career that has taken him from a local branch in North Carolina
to chief growth officer for Kelly worldwide. He spent five years
selling and recruiting in local U.S. markets before transitioning
and leading a number of Kelly’s largest strategic relationships.
His recent executive positions include leading Kelly’s Global
Service organization and leading Global Solutions Design for
KellyOCG. As chief growth officer, Dupree has been responsible for
designing and implementing Kelly’s new operating model, leading the
company’s strategic planning process, reimagining product
development, and creating new cross-selling processes to drive
growth in Kelly’s specialties.
“Tim’s work over the past year and a half has been critical in
accelerating our transition to a specialty talent company,” noted
Quigley. “Now he’ll take his obsession with growth—and his
first-hand experience in sales and operations—to Kelly Professional
& Industrial, where growth will be critical coming out of the
COVID-19 pandemic.”
Dupree earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business and
Marketing from Gardner-Webb University in North Carolina, and
completed an International Business Studies Program at Franklin
College in Lugano, Switzerland. His certifications include Human
Capital Strategist and Strategic Workforce Planning.
About Kelly
Kelly connects talented people to companies in need of their
skills in areas including Science, Engineering, Education, Office,
Contact Center, Light Industrial, and more. We’re always thinking
about what’s next in the evolving world of work, and we help people
ditch the script on old ways of thinking and embrace the value of
all workstyles in the workplace. We directly employ nearly 440,000
people around the world, and we connect thousands more with work
through our global network of talent suppliers and partners in our
outsourcing and consulting practice. Visit kellyservices.com and
let us help with what’s next for you.
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