Message from the Board “I'm proud that we are taking responsibility for our global ESG impact and footprint” Boris Kasteel, CEO of Atlas Professionals Atlas Professionals is an international recruitment company specialising in the Energy, Marine and Renewables industries. Operating globally, we strive to create a reliable, agile and sustainable business environment where our Professionals can secure the career they deserve with our Clients having means to access the best talents our industries have to offer. With more than four decades of experience under our belt, we are dedicated to ensuring that we are always at the frontier of everything related to personnel recruitment and business solutions in Energy, Marine and Renewables Industries. This frontier is ever changing thanks to various innovations in our industries, but also due to challenges the climate crisis, geopolitical risks and social unrest bring. As a value-driven company that conducts business with integrity whilst also acting responsibly; we want our stakeholders to be able to assess and judge our sustainability efforts and commitments. Because simply stating that sustainability sits at the highest level of our organisation is no longer enough to demonstrate our dedication for sustainable practices, even if our CEO and Board Members have been actively promoting, supporting and bolstering our ESG efforts for years. That is why we put in place this report, to provide a framework to demonstrate our ESG standards and commitments and showcase our results. This report thus includes quantitative performance data from January 1, 2022, to December 31, 2022, unless explicitly stated otherwise. Our ESG reporting includes Atlas Services Group B.V. and its operating companies (hereafter referred to as Atlas Professionals or Group).
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It also includes carbon emissions data from the 2022 acquisition of NextWave Partners (NWP), but not the ESG activities of NWP - who are a Certified B Corporation since December 2022. The report excludes the joint venture between Programmed Maintenance Services Ltd and the Netherlands-headquartered Atlas Professionals ANZ Holdings BV, Atlas Programmed Marine JV (JV) in Australia and New Zealand for the Scope 1 and Scope 2 Carbon emission reporting. We would like to note that the Atlas Professionals offices in Perth, Australia and New Plymouth, New Zealand, are the first recruitment services provider in the energy and marine industry in Australia and New Zealand to become carbon neutral in 2022. At Atlas Professionals, we are undertaking important initiatives and activities to improve our environmental and social impact and governance structures. And this report is just the beginning. We are proud of what we are doing, yet understand we are far from being there yet. There will always be 'Work in Progress', which is why we explicitly included these sections in the report − we want to demonstrate progress being made beyond the scope of the current report. With this first sustainability report, the foundation is solid for future improvements on our road to sustainability.
Boris Kasteel Chief Executive Officer
Collin Seyger Chief Financial Officer
