Thies Rixen has been CEO of q.beyond AG since April 2023. His key focus is on strengthening our company’s position as one of Germany’s leading IT service providers and aligning q.beyond to profitable growth. As COO, he was previously responsible for sales and the smooth running of IT operations. Rixen joined q.beyond in 2019 and turned the cloud business into the company’s key growth driver. A graduate in business administration, he gained extensive management and IT expertise in senior positions at DXC and Deutsche Telekom, as well as in his role as CIO and Managing Director of the Ingenico Group.

Nora Wolters has been Chief Financial Officer of q.beyond AG since the beginning of 2023. An experienced manager, she has held various c-level management positions in her career to date, most recently as Commercial Director of Verkehrsbetriebe Hamburg-Holstein until the end of 2022. As a results-driven and decisive financial expert, Nora Wolters can draw on extensive experience in topics such as digitalisation, process optimisation and change management. At q.beyond, she is responsible for areas including Finance, People & Culture, Legal and Investor Relations.

Torsten Beyer joined q.beyond as Head of Sales & Service Management in 2020, has been a member of the Management Team since 2023 and is responsible for Sales. A sales professional with a long track record of management and IT expertise, Torsten Beyer has all-round expertise in the wide variety of needs companies have in terms of digitalisation. Previous positions include managing director of a company with more than 800 employees and double-digit revenue growth.

Sönke Eschke has far-reaching IT operations expertise and extensive management experience. At q.beyond, he has headed areas including Cloud Services and been responsible for key measures aimed at optimising both operations and business management. A graduate in engineering, he also played a crucial role in successfully establishing q.beyond’s first nearshoring location in Riga/Latvia. Before joining q.beyonds’s management in October 2023, Sönke Eschke was Managing Director of q.beyond Cloud Solutions GmbH.

Alexander Hartmann joined the management at q.beyond AG at the beginning of 2023. In his career to date, this results-focused manager has held management positions at various companies, most recently at optm GmbH. A well-versed expert in digitalisation, Alexander Hartmann has in-depth experience in topics including consulting, process optimisation and change management. At q.beyond, he is responsible for the Consulting business field.