Kevin Rea is a Senior Managing Partner of Virtu Global Advisors, LLC. Virtu Global was established in 2023 to provide independent merchant-oriented financial and strategic advisory support focused on ideating, articulating, and enumerating the forecast potential and value of entertainment, media, literary, video game, esports and related intellectual property businesses, assets and securities for internal planning, and transaction planning and support. Prior to joining Virtu Global, Kevin was a Senior Managing Director at FTI Consulting (FTI) in Los Angeles where he was a co-leader of the Valuation and Financial Advisory Services Group (VFAS), which he joined following FTI's acquisition of The Salter Group in 2012. During his nearly 20 years of experience, Kevin has led or overseen over 1,500 engagements in entertainment and media on behalf of management teams, law firms, investors and lenders. His work has encompassed film and television production and distribution companies and libraries, music publishing and record label companies and catalogues, television broadcasting, cable networks, post-production, and digital media. Kevin has experience across a broad range of transaction and financial advisory roles, including fairness and solvency opinions, transaction advisory, tangible/intangible asset valuations, litigation support, restructuring support, business plan development, and strategic planning. Kevin was previously a Senior Accountant at Deloitte in the Manufacturing group, where he provided audit and assurance services for various manufacturing companies, including large publicly traded entities.Mr. Rea holds a B.S. in business administration with an emphasis in finance and accounting and an M.S. in accounting from Trinity University. He is a certified public accountant (inactive).