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Related Party Transactions

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2018

NOTE 13 – RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

The Company leased a building from the former owner of BCS for $9,000 per month, the lease was terminated on April 30, 2018.

In addition, on August 2, 2017, the Company entered into a Consulting agreement with Carlos J. Nissensohn, a family member of a Director of the Company. The terms and condition of the contract are as follows:

	●	24 month term with 90 day termination notice by the Company

	●	A monthly fee of $15,000 and a one-time signatory fee of 600,000 restricted shares

	●	1,500,000 warrants to buy shares at $0.11 having a four year life and a vesting period of 12 months in 4 quarterly and equal installments, subject to Mr. Nissensohn’s continuous service to the Company

	●	In case the Company procures debt financing during the term of this agreement, without any equity component, Mr. Nissensohn shall be entitled to 3% of the gross funds raised, however if the Company is required to pay a success fee to another external entity, then Mr. Nissensohn shall be entitled to only 2% of the gross funds raised

	●	In addition to the above, in the event of an equity financing resulting in gross proceeds of at least $3,000,000 to the Company within 24 months of the date the contract, Mr. Nissensohn shall further be entitled to certain warrants to be granted by the Company which upon their exercise pursuant to their terms, Mr. Nissensohn shall be entitled to receive QUEST shares which represent 3% of the QUEST issued share capital immediately prior to the consummation of such investment. The warrants will carry an exercise price per warrant/share representing 100% of the closing price per share as closed in the equity financing. This section and the issue of the warrant by QUEST are subject to the approval of the Board of Directors of QUEST. However, if the Board does not approve the issuance of warrants; then Mr. Nissensohn will be entitled to a fee with the equivalent value based on a Black Scholes valuation

	●	In addition to the above, Mr. Nissensohn will be entitled to a $ 50,000 onetime payment which shall be paid on the 1^stday that the QUEST shares become traded on the NASDAQ or NYSE Stock Market within 24 months of the date of the contract

	●	In addition to the aforementioned, in the event that Company shall close any M&A transaction with a third party target, Mr. Nissensohn shall be entitled to a success fee in the amount equal to 3% of the total transaction price, in any combination of cash and shares that will be determined by QUEST

On February 28, 2018, the Company finalized two settlement agreements with David and Kathy Marin (the “Marin Settlement Agreements”) which have an effective date of December 30, 2017. Pursuant to the first Marin Settlement Agreement (the “Marin Settlement Agreement I”), the Company and the Marins agreed to reduce the Company’s purchase price for all of the capital stock of Bar Code Specialties, Inc., which was acquired by the Company from the Marins in November 2014. In the 2014 acquisition, the Company had issued David Marin a promissory note for $11,000,000 of which an aggregate of $10,696,465.17 (the “Owed Amount”) was outstanding as of February 26, 2018 which includes accrued interest earned but not paid. Pursuant to the Marin Settlement I Agreement, the amount of the indebtedness owed to Marin was reduced by $9,495,465.17 bringing the total amount owed to $1,201,000. Section 3.1 of the original note was amended to provide that the Company shall pay the Marins 60 monthly payments of $20,000 each commencing the earlier of (i) October 26, 2018 and (ii) the date that the Company’s obligation to Scansource, Inc., currently in the amount of $2,800,000 is satisfied and all amounts currently in default under the credit agreement with Scansource (currently approximately $ 6.0 Million) is reduced to $2.0 million. The Marins have agreed to release their security interest against the Company. In connection with the $9,495,465.17 reduction in the purchase price, the Company issued the Marins 3 year warrants to purchase an aggregate of 3,000,000 shares of Common Stock at an exercise price of $0.20 per-share.

On February 28, 2018, the Company finalized an additional settlement agreement with the Marins (the “Marin Settlement Agreement II”) whereby the Company settled a promissory note owed to the Marins in the original principal amount of $100,000 which currently had a balance of $111,064.69 in its entirety in exchange for an aggregate of 85,000 shares of the Company’s Series C Preferred Stock. The Series C Preferred Stock has a liquidation value and conversion price of $1.00 per share and automatically converts into Common Stock at $1.00 per share in the event that the Company’s common stock has a closing price of $1.50 per share for 20 consecutive trading days. The preferred stock pays a 6% dividend commencing two years from issuance. During the first two years, the Series C Preferred stock shall neither pay or accrue the dividend. The Company also agreed to transfer title to a vehicle that was being utilized by Mr. Marin to David Marin. In exchange therefor, the $100,000 Note and the accrued interest thereon was cancelled in its entirety. The effective date of the agreement is December 30, 2017.

On February 22, 2018, the Company finalized a settlement agreement with Kurt Thomet whereby the Company settled its indebtedness to Mr. Thomet in the current amount of $5,437,136.40 in full in exchange for 60 monthly payments of $12,500 each commencing the earlier of (i) October 26, 2018 or (ii) the date when the Company’s obligation under its promissory note with Scansource, Inc. currently in the amount of $21,800,000 is satisfied and all amounts currently due under the credit agreement with Scansource (currently approximately $6.0 million) is reduced to $2.0 million. In addition, the Company issued Mr. Thomet an aggregate of 500,000 shares of restricted common stock and 1,000,000 shares of Series C Preferred Stock with the same rights and restrictions as described above in the description of the Marin Settlement II Agreement. The effective date of the agreement is December 30, 2017.

On February 19, 2018, the Company finalized a settlement agreement with George Zicman whereby the Company settled its indebtedness to Mr. Zicman in the current amount of $1,304,198.55 in full in exchange for 60 monthly payments of $3,000 each commencing the earlier of (i) October 26, 2018 or (ii) the date when the Company’s obligation under its promissory note with Scansource, Inc. currently in the amount of $2,800,000 is satisfied and all amounts currently due under the credit agreement with Scansource (currently approximately $6.0 million) is reduced to $2.0 million. In addition, the Company issued Mr. Zicman an aggregate of 100,000 shares of common stock and 600,000 shares of Series C Preferred Stock with the same rights and restrictions as described above in the description of the Marin Settlement II Agreement. The effective date of the agreement is December 30, 2017.

Each of the Marins, Thomet and Zicman entered into a voting agreement with the Company whereby they agreed to vote any shares of common stock beneficially owned by them as directed by the Company’s CEO and also agreed to a leakout restriction whereby they each agreed not to sell more than 10% of the common stock beneficially owned during any 30-day period.