A naturalized citizen of the United States, Mr. Eaton graduated from the University of Leeds in England having earned a Batchelor of Arts degree with honors in Textile Management. He began his career as an auditor with Arthur Andersen & Co and is a Chartered Accountant. After working as an internal auditor with McDermott International he joined the ARAMARK Corporation in London in 1980 as Group Accountant. He was subsequently appointed European Controller and in 1985 was nominated to become the Chief Financial Officer of ARAMARK’s Education Division in Houston, Texas. He managed the acquisition of Children’s World Learning Centers in 1987 and relocated the division headquarters to Denver, Colorado.

Mr Eaton left ARAMARK in 1995 to join Adecco as Corporate Controller and relocated to San Francisco, California. He managed the spin-off in an IPO of Adecco’s US healthcare staffing business and in 1996 he was responsible for the financial integration of Adia and Ecco to form Adecco. In 1998 he was named Chief Financial Officer of Adecco’s North American operations and managed the acquisitions of TAD, Delphi and Olsten by the Adecco Group. In 2000 he relocated to New York to lead the US integration of Adecco and Olsten. He returned to Europe in 2002 to serve the group as Corporate Controller and was appointed to his current position in 2003.