Go-to-Market
Enter North America in 90 days. Scale from there.
A proven playbook to take your firm from first conversation to first clients in the US and Canada, with leadership on the ground.
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.
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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