"The most influential person in any crisis is the one who has considered the possibility of it long before it happened."Polybius — The Histories
Principals.
The principals and advisors of APX Group bring together over two decades of operational experience across capital markets, media finance, Web3 architecture, European legal practice, and global distribution. We do not advise from the outside. We operate from the inside.
The Operating Bench
One point of accountability.
Mandates do not arrive sorted into disciplines. They arrive whole, and taking one apart calls for people who have already done that particular work somewhere else, under their own name and with their own reputation behind it.
APX is organised into six operating arms, each carrying its own discipline, its own bench and its own quality standard. Every member of the bench stands behind three of them, drawn only where a published record genuinely reaches that discipline, so sixteen people hold 48 arm positions. That is deliberate. Built into it is a rule the firm holds to across every mandate, that no single client conversation should require three external vendors, and it is the reason the arms are staffed to overlap rather than to sit apart. Below, the map traces how an engagement routes through the firm; the cards name the people who stand behind each arm, and every name jumps to that person’s profile.
Deal structuring, capital raising, M&A execution, cap table design, fund formation, IPO and listing advisory.
Agreement-ready drafting, commercial diligence, background investigation, regulatory and securities memoranda, contract review and redlines.
Token design, smart contract specification, audit coordination, launch operations, jurisdictional compliance posture, custody and multisig architecture.
Sports deal structuring, media and studio operations, content financing, IP and talent structuring, slate and franchise design.
Brand building, marketing strategy and execution, digital product engineering, translation, web deployment and identity systems.
Strategic consulting, crisis management and incident response, investor relations, board governance and corporate secretariat.
Chapter counts cover the twenty delivery chapters of the APX services catalogue, which is the set that carries the actual scope of work the firm sells to clients. Twenty-seven chapters make up the full catalogue, the remainder covering sector focus, engagement models, geographic reach and the standards framework that the delivery chapters are measured against.
Positions were drawn only where a member’s stated record reaches that discipline, never by inference, which is why Legal and Tokenization stay at three while Sector and Capital run deep. Depth here counts people on the bench rather than capability, and the arm a member is listed under first is the discipline their role actually sits in.
The Principals
Adi Cohen
Adi Cohen is a former scholar at Tel Aviv University in the fields of English Literature and Classical History. In business, Cohen is an expert on high-risk securities and derivatives and has dealt extensively in venture capital investments since 1992.
Cohen is an active principal in international capital markets, with expertise in structured financial instruments, high-risk securities, and derivatives across multiple asset classes. He leads APX's investment origination, deal architecture, and global investor network, structuring transactions across capital markets, Web3 and tokenization, and cross-border mandates.
Cohen leads APX's global strategy — directing deal origination, investor relations, capital formation mandates, and the firm's Web3 infrastructure. He oversees APX's treasury operations and the design of the APXCOIN utility framework. Adi is a triathlon enthusiast. He resides between New York City and Central Europe.
Jordi Rediu
Jordi Rediu is a renowned and acclaimed producer, orbiting the film industry for over 30 years. He is the complete authority on European film and television tax credit programmes, expertise APX deploys as a media finance instrument, and heads the firm's Global Production Arm.
Rediu is the Founding Partner of the Academy of Cinema of Catalonia. Member of the Spanish Film Academy. Secretary of PAC, the association of producers of Catalonia. Representative of producers in the Federation of Producers of Spain. President of the Catalan Audiovisual Association of Independent Producers and Member of the Board of the Film Directors Association. Rediu is completely fluent in Catalan, Spanish, French, English, Swedish, and basic Italian and German.
Jordi Rediu has produced more than 38 feature films, TV-films and documentaries and has been awarded 62 various prizes in selected film festivals around the globe. He has also received over 135 nominations.
At APX, Jordi leads European co-production and tax credit origination, connecting media finance mandates to European funding structures, soft-money instruments, and regulatory frameworks.
Augusto Pelliccia
Augusto Pelliccia studied photo-cinematographic processing techniques and was one of the founding designers and managers of the first Italian laboratory for the development and printing of color photos in one hour. He assembled one of the largest post-production facilities in Europe.
Augusto often collaborates with the Direction of the Pontifical Villas and Museums at the Vatican City State and has been entrusted with designing the database for the management of the photographic archive of the Vatican Museums and the Philatelic Numismatic Office of the Vatican City.
Augusto is currently the CEO of Augustus Color Roma, the only film development laboratory still in operation in Italy. He has supervised the executive production of significant international projects in Hollywood and with major US streamers. At APX, Augusto leads the Italy Division, overseeing production finance advisory, co-production origination, and institutional relationships across the Italian and Vatican media sector.
Fabio Pinci
Fabio Pinci is an esteemed lawyer and litigator, qualified to practice before the Superior Courts in Italy and several other European countries. He is a world expert in the fields of corporate law, banking and securities, representing public and private companies before Judicial Offices throughout Europe.
Pinci has overseen the most significant disputes in banking and financial matters, precedent judgments of liabilities, and international intellectual property law. He is also an expert on financial derivatives, structured bonds, online trading, and securities.
Fabio is the provincial secretariat of Rome for SNALS (autonomous union of school workers) and has developed multidisciplinary expertise in tax law with representation before Tax Commissions at both provincial and regional level. As of 2021, Mr. Pinci serves as the Certified Consultant at the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Dubai. At APX, Fabio leads the European legal function, overseeing transactional support for cross-border investment mandates, regulatory and compliance advisory, token and digital-asset compliance structures, and co-production agreements across EU jurisdictions. He serves on the acquisition committee of the Board of Directors and oversees public market compliance in Europe.
Andrada Ilie
Attorney Andrada Ilie became a lawyer at a very young age — in 2018 she was the youngest lawyer in Italy. She oversees a private practice in Rome and in Perugia.
Andrada specialises in Italian civil and criminal law, and excels in commercial and cinema law. She has acquired vast experience in complex and multinational media productions and co-productions between Europe and the USA.
Andrada leads APX's Italian tax credit structuring and European co-production legal work, advising on regulatory eligibility, compliance, and the transaction documentation behind media finance mandates across Italian and EU jurisdictions.
Nicholas Espinal
Nicholas Espinal consults institutional clients on fund-specific strategies to build and maintain wealth on-chain. As a successful equity derivatives and cryptocurrency trader, Espinal draws upon game theory and systems thinking to demystify complex market mechanics.
His background includes work at an industry-leading consulting firm, where he handled one of the largest cryptocurrency brokerages of its time. Espinal frequents the intersection of finance and philosophy — a poet and short story writer at heart — constantly seeking to actualize abstract theory into functional action.
At APX, Nicholas leads digital asset strategy, the tokenization stack, and APXCOIN operational infrastructure, managing the firm's on-chain treasury, digital asset allocations, and Web3 advisory mandates.
Advisory Board
30+ year career across M&A, buy-out, and private equity. Former China-based principal (1997-2019) advising on cross-border capital structures and co-productions. Brings deep Asian market relationships, public market advisory, and cross-border deal experience to APX capital markets and M&A mandates.
Former Finance Director and Co-Head of FinTech Investment Banking. Co-founder and Chairman of Lava Trading (acquired by Citigroup); Managing Director, Global Electronic Equities Execution at Citigroup. Chairman of Yieldbroker (Sydney). Started career at NeXT Computers (Steve Jobs). BSE Computer Science & EE, Princeton University. Advises APX on public market strategy, capital structure, IPO readiness, and FinTech and market-infrastructure deal architecture.
Former EVP, Distribution & Marketing, Universal Pictures, with over 408 theatrical releases including multiple Oscar-winning titles. Advises APX on content commercialisation, distribution economics, and the monetisation of media IP as a revenue-generating asset.
Former BBC Storyville founder and Emmy Award-winning director. Co-directed Meeting Gorbachev alongside Werner Herzog. Professorial Research Associate at London University, SOAS. Brings documentary commissioning relationships, broadcaster networks, and content IP and rights advisory to APX media finance mandates.
Extensive experience across television and media. Spent many years at Liberty Global investing in and developing cable, broadband, and content businesses worldwide. Has advised numerous companies on strategy and development, including several in the production space. Serves as Financial Strategy Advisor to APX Group on media finance, capital structure, M&A, and content investment strategy.
IRS Enrolled Agent, Global Compliance Fraud Specialist, and two-time Georgia State Certified Mediator with specialty in Hostage Negotiation. Brings compliance architecture, transaction integrity review, and commercial diligence support to APX mandates.
Strategic liaison between APX's corporate leadership and operations. BA in business management and accounting from BDO. Supports board governance and the corporate secretariat function, and participates in all acquisition transactions. Film producer with credits including Snails in the Rain (2013), holding Producer and Executive Producer credits.
Gaming-technology entrepreneur and named inventor on two U.S. fantasy-sports patents originally assigned to Hotbox Sports LLC. His background spans digital gaming systems, interactive sports products, and technology-enabled logistics, including co-founding the STX Delivery / Island Direct platform across the U.S. Virgin Islands. Advises APX on gaming technology, digital product and platform engineering, and venture strategy.
Associates
Qualified accountant with 15 years working with film production companies, studio operators, producers, and directors. Deep working knowledge of all aspects of film finance and taxation. Currently overseeing a Five-Year plan to develop APX's Iberian Peninsula Division into the largest physical and service park studios in Europe, a media infrastructure and real-asset mandate.
Emmy Award recipient, producer, entrepreneur, and investor. Co-founder of Vidiots / Switchblade Entertainment Group. Owner of MIBE Music, a publishing company with 100,000+ music cues and songwriters worldwide. Credits include CBS Sports, Bravo's Million Dollar Listing, and the NBA Finals opener for ESPN. Coordinates APX's music business strategy and the treatment of music catalogue as an IP asset with recurring royalty streams.
Combined Capability
Counts below are drawn from two sources and nothing else. Chapter and arm counts come from the APX services catalogue, while bench and board counts come from the roster on this page, and depth by domain is a relative reading of where the firm is strongest rather than a measured score.
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