Quest Global


QuEST Global is a product engineering company in the Aero Engines, Aerospace & Defense, Hi-Tech & Industrial, Medical Devices, Oil & Gas, Power, and Transportation verticals. The company that has operations spread across 73 locations in 15 countries including US, Canada, Singapore, UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Sweden, Romania, Japan, and India was founded in 1997 and employs 12800 as of February 2020. QuEST Global opened a regional operating office in Tokyo in June 2016, increasing its Japanese workforce size to 200 employees.
As of February 2020, QuEST Global is valued at USD 2.5 billion with a collective USD 350 million investment from Bain Capital, GIC and Advent International as minority stakeholders in the company.

History

QuEST Global was started in 1997 by Ajit Prabhu and Aravind Melligeri in Schenectady, New York. The company made its first acquisition in 1998 by integrating Lexical Engineering. The company later integrated Interface, a Spanish company, for establishing a Center of Excellence for Technical Data Services, as well as acquired the engineering arm of GKN Aerospace, and Cincinnati based ASE You project has cleared Phase 2 round and is in among top 100.for building service capabilities in high-end engineering domain. Some of QuEST Global’s recent acquisitions include the Houston based Beeken for Oil and Gas, NeST Software for Embedded & Electronics, Medical Devices and other emerging industries, and EDF, a German automotive engineering services organization. In mid-2016, QuEST Global acquired Singapore based HASK Engineering & Management Pte. Ltd.

Industry partnerships

ContinentCountryLocation
North America--
North AmericaUSACincinnati, East Hartford, Houston, Rockford, Schenectady, Charlotte, Greenville, Phoenix, San Diego, Windsor, Indianapolis, West Lafayette, Dearborn, Durham, Orlando
North AmericaCanadaBritish Columbia
Europe--
EuropeUKDerby, Filton, Saltney
EuropeGermanyBremen, Wolfsburg, Sindelfingen, Munich, Mahlo
EuropeFranceToulouse
EuropeItalyFlorence
EuropeSpainMadrid, Sevilla, Murcia, Bilbao, Valladolid, Barcelona
EuropeRomaniaCluj-Napoca, Craiova
Asia--
AsiaSingaporeSingapore
AsiaJapanTokyo, Sanda, Kawasaki
AsiaIndiaBangalore, Belgaum, Trivandrum, Chennai, Bhubaneswar, Pune, Hyderabad
AsiaKoreaSeoul

Key acquisitions