Hellowork president dies at 53, mowed down by drunken motorist

This is news that saddens the Tech sector and the Breton economy. The co-founder and president of Hellowork, Jérôme Armbruster, died at the age of 53 on the night of Thursday January 18 to Friday January 19, after a bicycle accident. While he was driving in the city of Rennes shortly after midnight, he was fatally struck down by a 20-year-old motorist who was driving drunk, under the influence of drugs and without a license at the wheel of his Renault Clio, specifies Ouest-France. “He would have arrived at a traffic light that was red and would not have slowed down,” confirms Philippe Astruc, the Rennes public prosecutor.

Faced with the violence of the shock, Jérôme Armbruster was killed instantly. This married father of a 17-year-old son created the RegionsJob site in 2000 alongside Guillaume Semblat and Gwenaëlle Quénavon-Hervé. This digital local recruitment tool is gradually becoming known and becomes, in 2018, HelloWork. Four years later, the company merged with other job sites to become the recruitment platform hellowork.com, today the leader in online employment. This subsidiary of the Télégramme group specializes in supporting professionals, companies and firms “on their challenges in terms of recruitment and human resources, as well as training centers and schools on the promotion of their training offers” .

On the Twitter page of the group, which now has 530 employees, all the teams say they are “deeply affected by the sudden disappearance of their President and founder”. “All our thoughts are with his family and loved ones,” the publication said. The drunk driver could be prosecuted for involuntary manslaughter by the driver of a land motor vehicle and hit and run, driving a vehicle without a license and driving a vehicle having used substances or plants classified as narcotics and under the the influence of an alcoholic state.