Questax

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Questax

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legal form GmbH
founding 2002
Seat Frankfurt am Main
management Alexander Koch
Number of employees 70 (2014)
sales 68 million euros (2011)
Branch Personnel service provider
Website www.questax.com

Questax is a personnel service and personnel consultancy company . The company places IT experts and engineers in projects in industry, trade and administration as well as in permanent positions and advises companies on issues relating to making their workforce more flexible. The parent Questax Holding AG is based in Hennef, Questax GmbH is based in Frankfurt am Main , while the subsidiaries Questax Heidelberg GmbH with its subsidiary Questax Professionals GmbH and Questax Switzerland AG are located in Heidelberg and Steinhausen , Switzerland. Questax also currently has an office in Düsseldorf . The CEO of the Questax Holding AG holding company, Ulrich Wantia, runs the Questax companies in close cooperation with the members of the management. According to the Lünendonk market segment study 2016 "The market for recruiting, placing and managing IT freelancers in Germany", Questax ranks 9th among the German IT personnel service providers.

Questax was created in 2014 as a strategic alliance between the Frankfurt-based QUEST Software Service GmbH and the Heidelberg company Reutax AG.

Company history

Company history of QUEST Software Service GmbH

QUEST Software Service GmbH was founded in 1997 by Catarina Krüger (née Heppe) and Jens Krüger in Frankfurt am Main . Specializing in the placement of IT specialists and executives, the company has developed into a leading provider in its branch. In 2012 QUEST became part of the medium-sized CONET group of companies , which, as an IT system and consulting company , expanded its range of services to include the provision and placement of IT specialists. In 2014, QUEST took ninth place in the market for recruiting, placing and managing IT freelancers in Germany with a turnover of 44 million euros and 46 employees.

Company history of Reutax AG

Establishment and development phase of Reutax AG

Former company headquarters in Heidelberg

Reutax AG was founded in 2002 by Soheyl Ghaemian, a native of Iran. The company was initially characterized by very rapid growth. Sales rose from 0.9 million euros in 2002 to 32.9 million euros in 2006. In the 2011 financial year, the group achieved sales of 170 million euros. In 2012, Reutax AG had around 800 freelancers under contract.

At the beginning of 2013, the group of companies included Reutax Temp GmbH, Reutax Perm GmbH and Lenroxx GmbH. Reutax Temp GmbH operated the temporary employment business. Lenroxx GmbH took on the management of freelancers and service providers for customers. The Reutax Perm GmbH was the bearer of the dependent Ghaemian Foundation with an annual budget of around 100,000 euros.

Reutax AG was active in an increasingly difficult business environment. Computerwoche recognized this in its article on April 24, 2013.

Reutax AG logo until 2013

Insolvency proceedings Reutax AG

On March 22, 2013, Reutax AG ( Az. 51 IE 2/13) as well as Reutax Temp GmbH (Az. 51 IN 47/13) and the Lenroxx GmbH (AZ. 51 IN 48/13) belonging to the corporate group reported to the local court Heidelberg bankruptcy .

Trial against Ghaemian

The company owner Soheyl Ghaemian lived an elaborate lifestyle and was among other things a sponsor of TSG 1899 Hoffenheim , the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , the Heidelberger Frühling and the Rotary Club Heidelberg Schloss . He lived in Switzerland and the USA. In San Francisco he founded a new company called Wildgigs Limited, but its website is no longer accessible. Wildgig's company entries are also available in Germany and Switzerland.

By April 16, 2013, according to Mannheimer Morgen, three reports of fraud and the delay in bankruptcy were received against Ghaemian and members of the board of Reutax AG. Contracts are said to have been concluded with suppliers, in this case in particular freelancers , even though the insolvency was imminent. The insolvency administrator later found out that the company had closed in 2011 with a loss of 24 million euros. Ghaemian was born on 2 July 2013 in Wilhelmsfeld on suspicion of breach of trust and fraud in custody taken. He was accused of having booked several private houses at company expense and managed them through the company. At the end of July 2013, a detention test was held at the Mannheim District Court , during which the arrest warrant was suspended in return for a security deposit of ten million euros. Unable to raise this amount, Ghaemian remained in custody. In January 2014, the Mannheim public prosecutor brought charges against him on suspicion of fraud and breach of trust in five cases.

On July 17, 2014, Ghaemian was sentenced to five years and three months in prison for infidelity.

Reutax AG insolvency

Shortly after the bankruptcy report, there was a change in the board of directors of the parent company of Reutax AG in Zurich on March 28, 2013. Retired persons and expired signatures: Schnabel Jürgen, German citizen, Neuheim, member of the board of directors, with individual signature. Jürgen Schnabel was Managing Director at WILD Group Management AG. Peoples registration new or changed: Wild Hans Rudolf, von Richterswil, Walchwil, member of the board of directors, with individual signature.

According to Mannheimer Morgen , the bankruptcy could reportedly be related to Hans-Peter Wild's withdrawal . The head of Eppelheimer Wild-Werke is said to have been privately involved with Reutax with a double-digit million euro amount.

Numerous consultants who were not paid for months before the bankruptcy left the company during this time. While Reutax had placed 1,000 freelance consultants at their peak and 600 before the bankruptcy, the number of consultants in October 2013 was only around 300.

The Heidelberg District Court appointed Tobias Wahl from anchor Rechtsanwälte as the insolvency administrator of Reutax AG. The insolvency administrator of Reutax Temp AG was Alexander Reus (also anchor lawyers), the insolvency administrator of the Lenroxx subsidiary was Karl-Heinrich Lorenz von Pabst | Lorenz + Partner.

Reutax AG closed the insolvency proceedings in August 2013. The Lenroxx subsidiary is being wound up in separate insolvency proceedings.

Realignment of Reutax AG

Reutax AG logo until 2014

On July 26, 2013 it was announced that a buyer for Reutax AG had been found. A group of investors closely related to the financial investor Rantum Capital from Frankfurt bought the company and took it over on August 1, 2013 by way of the so-called transferring restructuring of insolvency administrator Tobias Wahl. Reutax kept its seat in Heidelberg. Nothing was known about the purchase price.

The insolvency proceedings against Reutax AG were concluded with the new shareholder. The founder Soheyl Ghaemian left without exception. Marko Albrecht and Gerrit Ahlers became the new board members of Reutax AG. Albrecht has held management positions in consulting and software companies in the past. According to a report in Mannheimer Morgen, they wanted to reorganize the company and expand the customer management area. At this point in time around 70 people were employed by Reutax.

Strategic alliance, name change and change of legal form to Questax GmbH

Questax GmbH logo since 2014

In autumn 2014 the management and shareholders of the then QUEST Softwaredienstleistungs GmbH and Reutax AG decided to form a strategic alliance under the common brand "Questax".

In the course of the subsequent transaction, Reutax AG initially became a 100 percent subsidiary of QUEST Softwaredienstleistungs GmbH. In the course of a renaming and change of name in January 2015, Questax GmbH, based in Frankfurt, was given a new management team, with Marko Albrecht as Chairman of the Management Board / CEO, Kirby Weber as Managing Director / COO, Wilfried Pütz as Managing Director and Andreas Nader as commercial director / CFO is composed of managers from the predecessor companies.

In March 2015, Reutax AG was renamed and renamed, including a change of legal form, to Questax Heidelberg GmbH with its management team consisting of Marko Albrecht as Chairman of the Management Board / CEO, Kirby Weber as Managing Director / COO and Andreas Nader as Commercial Director / CFO. Questax's current network of locations consists of Frankfurt am Main , Heidelberg , Düsseldorf and Steinhausen (Switzerland) . The CEO of the Questax parent company Questax Holding AG, Ulrich Wantia, is currently the sole managing director and runs the Questax companies together with the members of the extended management team.

Web links

Commons : Reutax  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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