The Sunday Times yesterday published their annual rich list and a number of high rollers in the recruitment industry made the cut.

Phillippe Forie-Destezet tops the recruitment rich list at 64. The retired Frenchman made almost £880m due to the sale of his Adecco shared. 

Ronnie Frost is second on the list at 616, who still holds a £88m stake in Hays where he was once chairman. 

The owners of Colchester United Robbie and Cheryl Cowling are at 759 who hold nearly all the shares in online aggregator Jobserve worth £90m.

Alexander Badenoch (924) sold recruitment firm Badenoch and Clark for £58m and then went on to work with the Venn Group with a stake of £41m.
  
Other notbale recruitment officionados were Dragon’s Den’s James Caan in at 1096, Imraan Ladak at 77 in the young people’s list and Anne Heraty and Paul Carrol at 132 in the Irish list.