B. Riley Financial

B. Riley Financial is a financial services firm based in Woodland Hills, California, founded in 1973. It specializes in providing a wide range of services including investment banking, wealth management, corporate advisory, and financial consulting. The firm caters to both public and private companies, as well as high-net-worth individuals, addressing their capital raising and financial advisory needs. Through its various wholly-owned subsidiaries, B. Riley offers complementary services such as equity research, institutional trading, corporate restructuring, and valuation services. The company serves multiple industries, including aerospace, industrial supplies, food products, and real estate, delivering tailored solutions to meet the diverse needs of its clients.

Phillip Ahn

CFO and COO

David Bain

Managing Director

John Bankert

Executive Managing Director

Alan Barbee

Senior Managing Director

Dan Berman

Senior Managing Director

David Bookbinder

Managing Director

Tim Bottrell

Managing Director, Financial Sponsors Group

William Bower

Managing Director

Adam Brown

Senior Managing Director

Clay Bryan

Senior Managing Director, Financial Sponsors Group

Thomas Buck

Senior Managing Director

William Buckley

Managing Director

Clay Busker

Managing Director

John Connor

Senior Managing Director

Gregory Coppola

Senior Managing Director

Rodney Crawford

Senior Managing Director

Paul Dopp

Senior Managing Director

Greg Eidson

Managing Director

Kristi Faherty

Managing Director

Michael Fixler

Managing Director

Carol Fox

Senior Managing Director

Michael Fuqua

Managing Director

Marshall Glade

Managing Director

Ronald Glass

Senior Managing Director

Fredrick Hamilton

Senior Managing Director

Samuel Hewitt

Senior Managing Director

Jim Howard

Senior Managing Director

Bill Hughes

Managing Director

Michael Issa

Senior Managing Director

Eugene Izumo

Managing Director

Craig Jacobson

Managing Director

Larry Kanter

Senior Managing Director

Jennie Kim

Managing Director, West Region

Brent King

Managing Director

Dan Kraft

Managing Director, Financial Sponsors Group

Eric Lange

Senior Managing Director

Teresa Licamara

Managing Director

Alicia Masse

Senior Managing Director

Mike McGovern

Director

Christopher Michelsen

Managing Director of B. Riley Wealth Management

Ryan Mulcunry

Managing Director, Canada, Northeast and NY Metro Regions and Executive Vice President

Marc Musitano

COO, Valuation Services

Sergio Negreira JD

Senior Managing Director

Gary Olsen

Senior Managing Director

Garret Orbach

Vice President, Principal Investments

Joseph Pegnia

Managing Director

Richard Peil

Senior Managing Director

Antonio Pereira

Senior Managing Director

Michael Del Pero

Senior Managing Director

Bryant Riley

Founder Chairman and Co-CEO

Chad Salsbery

Managing Director

Virginia Schnippel

Managing Director

David Seiden

Managing Director, Mid Atlantic and Southeast Region

Quinn Shearer

Managing Director

Susan Smith

Managing Director

Michael Spindler

Senior Managing Director

Marc Spizzirri

Senior Managing Director

Michael Thatcher

Managing Director

Peter Tufo

Principal

Karthik Vasudevan

Managing Director, Intellectual Property

Steven Walker

Managing Director

Wayne Weitz

Senior Managing Director

Jonathan Wernick

Managing Director

Robert Winiarski

Senior Managing Director

Robert Woolway

Senior Managing Director

Kenny Young

President

Chad Yutka

Executive Managing Director, National Practice Leader

32 past transactions

Scotch & Soda

Corporate Round in 2023
Scotch & Soda designs, markets, and retails apparel for men, women, and children. Scotch & Soda are inspired by the world and curated by Amsterdam. A team of passionate discoverers and collectors, scouring the globe for that painting, poem, vintage piece, ruin, or artefact that sparks our never-ending curiosity. Treasures uncovered on worldly wanders are poured into collections and signature looks that clash eras, classics, places of inspiration, meshing unexpected fabrics and patterns.

Core Scientific

Post in 2023
Core Scientific is a blockchain, artificial intelligence hosting, transaction processing, and application development company. The company provides blockchain infrastructure, digital asset self-mining, and hosting services. The company also provides hosting solutions for digital asset mining and blockchain applications. The company specializes in in-house management and monitoring solutions that combine hosting with data analytics for alerting, monitoring, and management.

Tritium

Post in 2022
Tritium offers energy freedom through flexible, scalable technology solutions that enable electric vehicle charging for everyone, everywhere it is needed. It is Veefil electric vehicle charging stations that support the adoption and growth of low-emission e-mobility in over 20 countries around the world.

Kitopi

Series C in 2022
Kitopi is a Kitchen as a Service (KaaS) platform that enables restaurants to open delivery-only locations by providing the necessary managed infrastructure and software with minimal capital expenditure and time. Founded in 2018 by Mohamad Ballout, Saman Darkan, Bader Ataya, and Andy Arenas, Kitopi operates a network of over 60 cloud kitchens in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Bahrain. It had also expanded to the United States in 2019 but exited the market after the start of the pandemic.

Quantum

Post in 2022
Quantum is a global specialist in backup, recovery, and archive. From small businesses to multinational enterprises, more than 50,000 customers trust Quantum to solve their data protection, retention, and management challenges. Quantum's best-of-breed, open systems solutions provide significant storage efficiencies and cost savings while minimizing risk and protecting prior investments. They include three market-leading, highly scalable platforms: DXi®-Series disk-based deduplication and replication systems for fast backup and restore, Scalar® tape automation products for disaster recovery and long-term data retention, and StorNext® data management software for high-performance file sharing and archiving

Exela Technologies

Post in 2022
Exela Technologies specializes in global business process automation ("BPA") combining industry-specific and multi-industry-agnostic enterprise software and solutions with decades of experience. The Company’s BPA suite of solutions is deployed in banking, healthcare, insurance, and other industries to support mission-critical environments. Exela is a leader in workflow automation, attended and un-attended cognitive automation, digital mailrooms, print communications, and payment processing with deployments across the globe.
Greenidge is a 106MW natural gas power plant and blockchain mining facility. Greenidge Generation has been transformed into a power plant for the twenty-first century. In January 2020, Greenidge launched the first phase of a data center for blockchain mining. Greenidge was established in 1937 and is based in Dresden, New York, United States.

Cadiz

Post in 2022
Cadiz is a publicly-held natural resources company engaged in a combination of organic farming and sustainable water supply projects. The company is presently focused on partnering with public water agencies to implement the Cadiz Water Project, which will create a new water supply for approximately 100,000 Southern California families and make available up to 1 million acre-feet of new groundwater storage capacity.

Avathon

Series D in 2022
SparkCognition, Inc. is a technology company based in Austin, Texas, specializing in artificial intelligence solutions for industrial applications. Established in 2013, the company develops a range of AI-powered products, including SparkPredict, which analyzes sensor data to provide actionable insights and predict equipment failures; DeepArmor, a cybersecurity solution that employs machine learning to detect and prevent malware; and Darwin, which automates the data science process to enhance operational efficiency. Additionally, SparkCognition Government Systems focuses on creating AI systems tailored for government organizations, addressing national security challenges. The company's technologies serve various industries, including oil and gas, aviation, defense, financial services, manufacturing, and utilities, facilitating improved decision-making and enhanced productivity through advanced machine learning capabilities.

Salted

Venture Round in 2021
Salted is a platform for developing and scaling better-for-you, QSR brands. The company's platform provides subscription-based virtual cooking classes in which subscribers can access cooking video tutorials via the Internet.

272 Capital

Acquisition in 2021
272 Capital is a registered investment advisor which seeks to provide attractive risk-adjusted returns through a long/short equity strategy with low net exposure.

Kitopi

Series C in 2021
Kitopi is a Kitchen as a Service (KaaS) platform that enables restaurants to open delivery-only locations by providing the necessary managed infrastructure and software with minimal capital expenditure and time. Founded in 2018 by Mohamad Ballout, Saman Darkan, Bader Ataya, and Andy Arenas, Kitopi operates a network of over 60 cloud kitchens in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Bahrain. It had also expanded to the United States in 2019 but exited the market after the start of the pandemic.

bolttech

Series A in 2021
Bolttech is an InsurTech company developing an AI-based point-of-sale insurance platform to offer a technology-enabled ecosystem for protection and insurance. Its platform also offers device protection, travel, motor, property, and life insurance, as well as digital insurance, to consumers. As an international insurtech, bolttech aims to create a technology-enabled ecosystem for protection and insurance, notably expanding its presence in Asia.

Continuous Composites

Venture Round in 2021
Continuous Composites offers the most advanced composites and additive manufacturing solution, Continuous Fiber 3D printing (CF3D). Their patented CF3D® solution leverages the power of composite materials with an additive manufacturing process to reduce the high cost, long lead times, and design constraints found in traditional manufacturing. CF3D elevates the use of composites by bringing tailorable, snap-curing thermoset materials solutions to new applications.

Liteboxer

Series A in 2021
Liteboxer is a consumer electronics company providing a smart fitness platform. The company combines rhythm technology with workouts from trainers and brings fitness to home. It is an exercise machine as well as a music game. Jeffrey Morin founded the company in Hampton, New Hampshire in 2017.

BloomNation

Series B in 2021
BloomNation is a startup offering florists and floral designers a platform for running their business online, as well as a marketplace that connects florists and consumers. Its service provides a host of tools to pick-and-choose from, including a website builder like Squarespace, a point-of-sale platform like Square’s, inventory and customer management tools, email marketing, an online profile on BloomNation.com to attract customer orders, and more.

National Holdings

Acquisition in 2021
National Holdings Corporation (National) is a holding company. The Company's segments include brokerage and advisory services, tax and accounting services, and corporate. Its brokerage and advisory services segment includes broker-dealer and investment advisory services, sale of insurance products and licensed mortgage brokerage services provided by the Broker-Dealer Subsidiaries, National Asset Management, Inc., National Insurance Corporation, Prime Financial Services and GC Capital Corporation. Its tax and accounting services segment includes tax preparation and accounting services provided by Gilman Ciocia, Inc. The Company, through its subsidiaries, provides various financial services. Through National's broker-dealer and investment advisory subsidiaries, it offers retail brokerage to individual and institutional clients; provide investment banking, merger and acquisition and advisory services to micro, small and mid-cap companies and is engaged in trading securities.

Eos

Post in 2020
Eos Energy Enterprises Inc designs develop, manufactures, and markets zinc-based energy storage solutions for utility-scale, microgrid, and commercial & industrial (C&I) applications. The solutions are used in the utility sector, the renewable energy sector, and the industrial sector. It's flagship product Eos Znyth is a stationary battery energy storage system.

IQvestment Holdings

Private Equity Round in 2020
IQvestment Holdings is an innovative fintech company offering a business-to-business eCommerce platform solution.

The Arena Group

Post in 2020
The Arena Group provides dynamic, digital destinations that delight consumers with stories and news about the things they love – their favorite sports teams, the inside scoop on personal finance, and the latest on lifestyle essentials. We are building out a dynamic media ecosystem that brings together consumers, publishers and advertisers in a proven strategy that brings sustainable performance gains in traffic, engagement, and monetization by harnessing the authority of sought-after brands and the editorial prowess of our leading writers and editors. In this way we leverage a single platform to scale utilizing best in class capabilities in direct sales and programmatic advertising, data, SEO, social, and operations.

Ventiva

Series C in 2020
Ventiva's ICE thermal management technology is enabling a revolution for the electronics industry. An active, hybrid cooling solution with no moving parts or noise, Ventiva ICE is ideal for a wide range of next generation devices including ultra-thin TVs and flat panels, wireless chargers, automotive applications, IoT devices, laptops, tablets and more. Based upon the principle of ionization, Ventiva ICE bridges the gap between active and passive thermal management in a solid state form factor. The first new thermal management cooling technology to be introduced in decades, Ventiva ICE is now sampling to OEMs and ODMs globally.

SRAX

Post in 2020
SRAX is a financial technology company that unlocks data and insights for publicly traded companies. Through its premier investor intelligence and communications platform, Sequire, companies can track their investors’ behaviors and trends and use those insights to engage current and potential investors across marketing channels.

Boardroom Alpha

Seed Round in 2019
Boardroom Alpha develops analytics that set the standard for the assessment of public company directors, officers, and corporate governance to help investors and companies create long-term value. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Darien, Connecticut.
GlassRatner is a multi-office specialty financial advisory services firm providing Solutions to complex business problems and Board level agenda items. The firm applies a unique mix of skill sets and experience to address matters of the utmost importance to the enterprise such as planning and executing a major acquisition or divestiture, pursuing a fraud investigation or corporate litigation, managing through a business crisis or bankruptcy and other top level, non-typical business challenges.

Bebe Stores

Post in 2018
bebe Stores is a retail company for contemporary fashion. The fashion retailer markets its merchandise under the bebe and bebe outlet names through more than 200 retail stores, more than 100 international-licensee operated stores, and bebe.com. bebe was founded in 1976 and is based in Brisbane, California.

Sonim Technologies

Venture Round in 2017
Sonim Technologies is the pre-eminent maker of the world's toughest phones. They manufacture phones that withstand the harshest of conditions-- conditions that would render the average phone useless. From the weekend adventurer needing a phone that can withstand drops from a mountainside, to the construction worker who requires a tough, durable handset that can survive the perils of the job site, Sonim builds phones for anyone who lives and works a rugged lifestyle. Sonim is also the pioneering provider of Standards-based, telco-grade Open Mobile Alliance Push-to-talk over Cellular (PoC) Servers, hosted Services, and Clients for mobile devices such as the XP1 used today across vertical industries. Sonim invented the OMA-PoC standard, and to date, they have spent millions to develop and optimize the technology. Built around Internet Protocols for instant voice communications, Sonim products are uniquely positioned to help Operators of all sizes leverage the power of the Internet to introduce new powerful push-to-x types of community-oriented applications enjoying viral adoption and usage on the Web today. Sonim's modular Server and Client software and its rugged handset products can be licensed individually for use in other infrastructure and handset offerings, or as licensed together in a bundle for complete end-to-end solutions offerings.

Sonim Technologies

Debt Financing in 2017
Sonim Technologies is the pre-eminent maker of the world's toughest phones. They manufacture phones that withstand the harshest of conditions-- conditions that would render the average phone useless. From the weekend adventurer needing a phone that can withstand drops from a mountainside, to the construction worker who requires a tough, durable handset that can survive the perils of the job site, Sonim builds phones for anyone who lives and works a rugged lifestyle. Sonim is also the pioneering provider of Standards-based, telco-grade Open Mobile Alliance Push-to-talk over Cellular (PoC) Servers, hosted Services, and Clients for mobile devices such as the XP1 used today across vertical industries. Sonim invented the OMA-PoC standard, and to date, they have spent millions to develop and optimize the technology. Built around Internet Protocols for instant voice communications, Sonim products are uniquely positioned to help Operators of all sizes leverage the power of the Internet to introduce new powerful push-to-x types of community-oriented applications enjoying viral adoption and usage on the Web today. Sonim's modular Server and Client software and its rugged handset products can be licensed individually for use in other infrastructure and handset offerings, or as licensed together in a bundle for complete end-to-end solutions offerings.

magicJack VocalTec

Acquisition in 2017
magicJack VocalTec provides carrier-class voice-over Internet protocol (VoIP) solutions for communication service providers worldwide. Its Essentra product family includes Essentra CX media gateway controller that enables providers of national and international long distance services, as well as VoIP providers to build and/or migrate their infrastructure to packet-based VoIP networks, with connectivity to PSTN/SS7 services; Essentra EX peering manager, which facilitates peering between SIP and/or H.323 networks and addresses carriers' requirements in the areas of protocol interworking, security, and intelligent voice routing; Essentra BAX application server that enables the delivery of residential and hosted enterprise VoIP services over various broadband access infrastructures; and ESSENTRA OSS operation support server, a centralized Web-based management system, which enables remote management, service configuration, monitoring, and provisioning of Essentra Elements. The company develops, markets, and supports advanced telecom solutions that enable the deployment and migration of telephony networks from legacy networks to next generation packet-based networks; and implementation of Greenfield next generation telecom networks. Its solutions handle call control, media relay, signaling, and security in next-generation networks. The company's SIP-based solutions support various other protocols, including Megaco/H.248, MGCP, H.323, SIGTRAN M3UA/IUA, and SS7; and incorporate elements of the IMS/TISPAN architecture. It markets and distributes its products directly, as well as through various distribution channels to fixed-line national and international long distance carriers, competitive local exchange carriers, VoBB providers, incumbent local exchange carriers, alternative VoIP telephony carriers, Internet telephony service providers, and mobile operators.

Wunderlich Securities

Acquisition in 2017
Founded in 1996 in Memphis, Tennessee, Wunderlich is a full-service investment firm serving the needs of individuals, corporations and institutional clients through our wealth management, investment banking and capital markets divisions. Additionally, we offer inter-dealer institutional fixed income trading services through Fundamental Broker Inter-Dealer (FBI) and operate registered investment advisory subsidiaries. Our firm was ranked among the fastest growing private companies in America by Inc. Magazine from 2010 through 2013. In 1996, then 26-year old Gary Wunderlich coupled his investment banking background with an entrepreneurial vision when he acquired a small broker/dealer in Memphis, Tennessee, and launched Wunderlich Securities. During a time of broad consolidation among the larger, regional investment firms, Wunderlich sought to fill a void with his new venture. Initially, Wunderlich Securities focused only on serving individual investors in the Memphis area. But within two years, the industry took notice and Wunderlich’s Private Client Group welcomed a team of like-minded advisors in Houston, Texas, which became the firm’s first of many branch locations. By 2002, the firm was well-established with 60 experienced financial advisors. Over the next six years, Wunderlich expanded its reach into institutional sales, trading and research with the launch of its Fixed Income division, followed shortly by an Equity Capital Markets division. During this time, the firm’s growth and business model attracted the attention of Coil Investment Group, a Norwegian-based private equity and venture capital firm, which then became a financial partner in 2007. This investment fueled continued expansion for Wunderlich in the years ahead. As the Private Client Group added advisors and new locations in Tennessee and Michigan, the Equity division expanded into investment banking as a result of two banking boutique acquisitions. By 2011, the firm’s equity research effort had grown to 16 analysts following over 200 companies. Considered by this time a full-service financial services firm as a result of a broad offering of individual and institutional services, Wunderlich was recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of the fastest growing private companies of 2010. This honor was repeated again in 2011, 2012 and 2013 as the firm continued to chart steady growth across all divisions. By 2013, Wunderlich’s Private Client Group had surpassed 200 financial advisors with $8 billion in client assets. During that year, the firm received a second capital investment through Altamont Capital Partners, a California-based private equity firm with over $1 billion in capital. Yet another notable milestone was Wunderlich Investment Company’s 2015 acquisition of Dominick & Dominick, an esteemed firm with a history spanning more than a century on Wall Street. This group of advisors continues to serve high-net worth investors from offices in New York, Miami and Atlanta as a division of the Wunderlich Securities Wealth Management division. Within a few months, the firm also added a Dallas-based investment advisory firm, Fiduciary Financial Services of the Southwest, with over $400 million in assets under management to our company. At the conclusion of its 2015 fiscal year in June, Wunderlich had 500 associates working in more than 25 locations across 17 states to manage $10+ billion of client assets. As Wunderlich looks forward to the 20th anniversary of its founding, the firm is committed to the vision that has led to its success thus far – remaining ever diligent in its focus to serve Wunderlich's clients well.

FBR

Acquisition in 2017
FBR & Co is a full-service investment banking, institutional sales, trading and research and asset management firm with a customer-focused and innovative approach to meeting their clients' needs. In addition, they make principal investments, including merchant banking investments, with their own capital.

Eleven James

Debt Financing in 2017
Eleven James is a membership brand that is introducing a modern luxury experience. Through a subscription model, the company lets members select and wear the world’s most beautiful timepieces for a few months at a time, allowing them to discover, explore, and play in a world of luxury that has been restricted by the burdens of commitment and ownership. The company has pioneered a first-of-its-kind consignment channel for this asset class, creating a unique supply that reflects a diversity and depth of luxury timepieces unmatched and untapped by traditional wholesalers and retailers.

United Online

Acquisition in 2016
United Online, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides consumer products and services over the Internet in the United States and internationally. The company operates in three segments: Communications, Commerce & Loyalty, and Social Media. The Communications segment offers dial-up Internet access services under the NetZero and Juno brand names. This segment also provides mobile broadband, DSL, email, Internet security, Web hosting, voice, and other services. The Commerce & Loyalty segment provides loyalty marketing service under the MyPoints brand name. It also offers shopping through online portals, apps, and browser extensions. The Social Media segment provides social networking services and products under the StayFriends and Trombi brand names. This segment operates its social networking services as a platform to enable users to locate and interact with acquaintances from their past primarily with high school affiliations; and provides advertising opportunities to marketers through a suite of display, search, email, and text-link opportunities across various properties. It operates stayfriends.de, stayfriends.se, stayfriends.at, and stayfriends.ch in Germany, Sweden, Austria, and Switzerland; and trombi.com in France. As of December 31, 2015, this segment had approximately 32 million registered accounts. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Woodland Hills, California. As of July 1, 2016, United Online, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of B. Riley Financial, Inc.
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