B. Riley Financial hired Virginia Schnippel as a managing director within the corporate advisory and valuation services practice at B. Riley Advisory Services.

“We are excited to welcome Virginia and her skills to our corporate advisory valuation services team,” Chad Yutka, executive managing director and national corporate advisory and valuation services practice leader at B. Riley Advisory Services, said. “Virginia brings significant industry and valuation experience across many industries, and her addition demonstrates our commitment to having best-in-class expertise in advisory services offerings.”

Based in Chicago, Schnippel is a valuation professional with more than 23 years of experience supporting domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, recovery and reorganization, tax and a variety of other valuation-related advisory work. She joined B. Riley from CohnReznick, where she most recently served as a principal in the firm’s valuation advisory group. She previously worked in the valuation services practices at BDO USA, Ernst & Young and Grant Thornton. Schnippel is an Accredited Senior Appraiser with the American Society of Appraisers.