Gerard Koolen

Group Managing Partner at Lugera, GIT, Lugera Ukraine (prev. Adecco UA)

Gerard established Lugera in 1996 together with Lubos Kovac and Rastislav Grznar in Trencin, Slovakia. The idea was to build a great staffing agency. To help as many people as possible with a better job. And this goes dynamite. The bigger we are the more people we’re helping. We’re now having around 15,000 hard-working temporary staff, more than 400 wonderful colleagues and we are present in 8 countries (AM, BU, CZ, NL, PL, RO, SK, UA). Since our establishment more than 630,000 persons got a better job through us.

Gerard is born in 1961 in Amsterdam. Graduated Business School in Amsterdam (HEAO), started a production company in home accessories (KKB Kunst of Vormgeving), worked at a market research company and went in 1991 to Slovakia to set up the distribution (import, wholesale) of shoes in mainly Slovakia & Czech Republic. In 1996 he started Lugera with Lubos and Rasto.

You can reach Gerard: gerard.koolen@lugera.com, +31622959248