Vale R.W "Bill" Pollock, the founder of the global staffing industry

Bill Pollock, the founder of Drake International, passed away peacefully last week at his home in Monaco, at the age of 97. Born Robert William Pollock in Winnipeg, Canada, in 1928, the youngest of nine children of Austrian and Polish immigrants, Pollock grew up during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

As a teen, he took a job mowing lawns, but when the…