Great Place to Work® People

Great Place to Work® Institute Europe

Palle Ellemann Knudsen

Managing Director

Palle is responsible for the development and support of new and existing partners and affiliates across the European region, including the production of the annual European List of Best Workplaces.Palle started up the first list of Best Workplaces in Denmark in 2001. Two years later he moved to Spain to establish the Spanish affiliate office of Great Place to WorkR Institute in Barcelona. In 2005 he returned to Denmark to take responsability for the activities of the European regional office in Great Place to WorkR Institute Europe.Palle holds a Master of Science in International Business Administration from Copenhagen Business School.

Otto Zell

Director of Finance and Operations

Otto Zell is Vice President of Great Place to Work® Institute Europe and member of the Regional Board. He is responsible for operations, management of the European List as well as media- and affiliate contracts.Otto has joined the Great Place to Work® Team in 2002 and has been part of the elaboration of the first-ever European List of Best Workplaces in March 2003.Otto holds a Master of Economics from Trier University, Germany.

Great Place to Work® Institute Inc.

José Tolovi Jr.

Global Chief Executive Officer

José Tolovi Jr. is Global Chief Executive Officer and member of the Executive Board of Great Place to Work® Institute Inc. as well as member of the Institute boards in Brazil, México, Central America & Caribbean, Canada, Spain and France.

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Robert Levering

Co-Chair of the Board

Robert Levering is best known as co-author of FORTUNE's annual 100 Best Companies to Work For® list. Robert wrote the best-selling first book on this subject in 1984, The 100 Best Companies to Work for in America. In 1990 Robert co-founded the Great Place to Work® Institute.

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David A. Jones

Co-Chair of the Board

A labor and employment lawyer by training, David Jones serves as Co-Chair of the Board of Directors of the Institute. As second-in-command of human resources at Stanford University, David has had a long association with the Institute starting almost 10 years ago.

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