Go-to-Market
Launch in Florida. Win North America.
We bet on Florida in 2012. Today it is home to a fast-growing finance hub. We help you land, hire and grow here.
The playbook
Enter → Build → Scale.
90 days
Enter
Positioning, target accounts, entity and first introductions.
Months 4–12
Build
Local leadership, team, partners and repeatable pipeline.
Year 2+
Scale
Multi-market expansion, capital and board-level governance.
Then and now
Florida: 2012 vs 2026.
2012
A handful of finance firms. Few believed. We set up anyway.
2026
A leading destination for funds, family offices and fintech, with capital and talent migrating south.
No state income tax
Keep more of what you earn.
Gateway to LatAm
Miami connects the Americas.
Talent & lifestyle
Senior talent is moving here.
Time zone
Aligned with New York, close to Europe.
Engagement models
Three ways to work with us.
90-Day Market Entry Sprint
A fixed-scope sprint to validate, position and open doors in North America.
Retained Growth Partnership
Ongoing fractional leadership and execution as you build and scale.
Board & Equity Partnership
Board seats and aligned equity for long-term, shared success.
45+
offices scaled at Apex
2012
first in Florida
100+
countries in our network
Thalius Hecksher
Founder & Managing Partner
A note from the founder
“I've spent two decades building the go-to-market engines behind PE-backed finance companies — taking Apex from five offices to forty-five and a ~$300 million exit to Genstar Capital. In 2012 I bet on Florida before the wave. If you are planning your own North American push, I would welcome the conversation.”
Thalius Hecksher is a commercial executive and entrepreneur with two decades of experience building the go-to-market engines behind private-equity-backed, high-potential companies as they scale from regional players into global platforms.
As Global Managing Director of Apex Fund Services, he built a five-office boutique into a 45-office platform spanning 175+ financial hubs — a commercial and operational transformation that delivered a ~$300 million strategic exit to Genstar Capital and a platform that now exceeds $4 billion in market value. He then joined Trident Trust as Global Director of its Funds Group and a member of the Executive Leadership Team, redesigning the global commercial model and leading market entry across Cayman, the US, Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Earlier, as Head of Sales EMEA at Linedata he delivered double-digit growth across new European territories, after starting his career at Thomson Reuters. Since 2018 he has operated through Hecksher Partners, helping CEOs, boards and PE sponsors of high-growth financial services, fintech and specialty services businesses design and execute US and international go-to-market strategy, commercial due diligence, PE readiness and post-acquisition commercial integration.
B.Comm (Hons), University College Dublin · Graduateship, Irish Marketing Institute · Fort Lauderdale, Florida · linkedin.com/in/thaliushecksher
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