People's wellbeing and supporting the society is in focus for the Gold winner of the global award Founder of the Year Small Size Companies, Andrius Francas, founder of Alliance for Recruitment

Andrius Francas. founder of Alliance for Recruitment received the Growth Rings in Gold for the global award Founder of the Year category Small Size Companies at the Founders Awards Gala held at Stockholm City Hall on September 22.

“I am honored to receive the Founder of the Year award in the small Size Companies category. This award is a recognition of the journey I started with my Co-founder Vytenis Sidlauskas 11 years ago. It is continued by almost 100 recruitment experts at Alliance for Recruitment family in their daily lives, and I want to thank every single one of them for striving to perfection, focusing on quality and making sure both candidates and clients enjoy the journey together with us.”, says Andrius Francas.

The jury's motivation for Andrius Francas:

“With a strong culture and a family atmosphere this founder has built a company where the stars in the industry grow the company with high quality and impressive numbers. The founder has built a solid platform for healthy profitability and future growth.”

Andrius Francas founded Alliance for Recruitment 2011 together with Vytenis Sidlauskas. The company is headquartered in Vilnius, Lithuania with physical offices in Lithuania and Latvia and with full coverage of the Baltics, including Estonia.

Alliance for Recruitment is the largest Recruitment Consultancy in the Baltic states, with three offices and a team of 75+ recruitment experts finding and placing more than 1100 of the best talents in the market with their clients every year. The company focuses on their employees physical and mental health, and have launched a special program of wellbeing called Project Fridays, but also supports local elderly communities and helps to grow the local talent pool through cooperations with education institutions.

Andrius driving force is to create a better future for people and make an impact on society. He focuses on sustainable growth with a profitable organization in order to maintain and support their activities, keep the quality and service level, and to make the employees feel as a part of the family.

The finalists have earlier introduced themselves and their companies to a jury of qualified founders consisting of: Chairwoman of the jury Sofi Franzén - Eventyr Nine Yards, Vladimir Borisov - Teleport Amsterdam, Harshil Karia - Schbang, Level, Greger Hagelin - Utopia, WESC and Sabina E. von Arx - Q. Brands.

Founder of the Year

Founder of the Year is Founders Alliance's main award, and aims to draw attention to and highlight global large scale founders who own and operate sustainable companies, and thus stimulate more medium-sized and large internationally expanding companies.

The founders and their companies are ranked based on the Founders Alliance (FA) Index, which takes into account past performances, future potential and societal achievements.

To pay attention to the highest performing founders in several company development phases, and to highlight female and male winners, Founder of the Year is awarded to male and female founders in three categories based on financial results the year prior.

In the category Founders of Small Sized Companies are active founders of a company with a revenue of approximately 2-10 MEUR with at least 20% ownership in a profitable company.

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