We would like to welcome industry veteran Richard “Rick” Waks to B. Riley as a Senior Sales Trader, based in our Los Angeles office. Prior to B. Riley, he was at Heflin & Co, where after starting in early 2007 was named President and CEO in July of 2008. In 1985, he was a sales trader at SC Bernstein in New York then moved to Southern California with Kidder Peabody in 1990. He subsequently managed regional trading desks for Schroders and JP Morgan, before starting and managing the Institutional Equity Division at a small distressed bond firm. Before entering institutional trading, Rick held positions as a Management Consultant for Anderson Consulting and started new international businesses for Citigroup’s credit card division, CitibankUSA. Rick holds a BS degree from SUNY Albany and an MBA with a focus in Statistics and Quantitative Analysis from the University of Michigan.