B. Riley Financial recently announced the addition of Virginia Schnippel as a managing director within the Corporate Advisory & 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 & Valuation Services Practice leader, said in a press release. “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 leading valuation professional with over 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 joins B. Riley from CohnReznick, where she most recently served as a principal in the firm’s Valuation Advisory Group, and previously worked in the valuation services practices at BDO USA, Ernst & Young, and Grant Thornton LLP.

Schnippel is an accredited senior appraiser with ASA.