David Ji

David Longfen Ji (also known as Ji Longfen; born August 5, 1952) is a Chinese-American electronics entrepreneur who co-founded Apex Digital, an electronics trading company based in Los Angeles, California.

Business career Apex Digital founding and business In the United States, in 1997 Ji co-founded and became chairman of Apex Digital, a Los Angeles electronics trading company. Ji was named by Time magazine one of 15 "global influentials" of 2002. Changhong became Apex's largest supplier of DVD players. Changhong accused Ji of defrauding them through bad checks.

He was held in China by Changhong for months without charges.

Charlie Wang then conducted a second taped deposition of Ji. At the time, Ji was one of a dozen United States businessmen who had been detained in China without due process in the past decade.

In 2010, Apex filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, which finally closed in January 2018.

Later career Ji founded and became chief executive officer of McLovin's Pet (a California pet food and pet care company) in 2020, and chief executive officer and director of Caduceus Software Systems (a holding company which wholly owns McLovin's Pet) in 2023.