Hubert
Founder & CEO
In April 2021, Hubert Terstappen founded share-tec GmbH (as part of the VCC Group), which holds the wheego brand rights and brought on board several experienced members and car rental experts from the former Buchbinder and Global Management and Franchise team. wheego is a brand of share-tec GmbH. Hubert Terstappen is one of the leading personalities in the mobility industry. He started his own car rental business back in 1987 and expanded throughout Germany. After the merger with Buchbinder, Hubert Terstappen became Managing Director of the Group and developed the company into the fourth-largest mobility provider in Germany and the market leader in Austria with over 30,000 vehicles at 165 locations. The entrepreneur also founded the international franchise system Global Rent a Car and expanded the brand into 20 countries worldwide. Following the successful sale of the Buchbinder Group to Europcar, he was responsible for the integration into the Europcar Mobility Group and was appointed Managing Director of Europcar in Germany. He left the company in 2020 and founded the VCC VENTURES Group and the associated companies share-tec GmbH, mobi-tec GmbH and PARKsmart. In the first financial year, Hubert Terstappen and the wheego team achieved all planned milestones. The Share, Rent, Auto Abo and Car Sales products were successfully launched, the wheego-mobility.com website and the wheego app (iOS and Android) were launched and the first wheego Mobility Stores were opened in Berlin, Hamburg, Vienna and other major cities. The wheego franchise partner program also got off to a very successful start. More than 20 international partners have already joined the wheego franchise system and have started to operate under the wheego brand in addition to the two Group countries Germany and Austria. At the same time, the development of the VCC Group's own technology solutions is making good progress. At the heart of the development is the RideCube© system, an integrated car rental and car sharing technology with many unique features and tools to operate the mobility business in the most convenient and efficient way and provide customers with a unique rental experience.
