Josh Nichols

Mr. Nichols is a senior analyst in B. Riley Securities' Discovery Group. He joined the firm's equity research team in 2014. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Nichols spent two years at OneWest Bank as vice president of credit analytics, where his primary focus was revamping how the bank analyzed credit risk and reserved for losses in its commercial loan portfolio. Prior to OneWest Bank, Mr. Nichols spent five years at Ares Management, L.P., an investment firm with over $45 billion in assets under management spread across 85 unique investment funds. During his tenure at Ares, Mr. Nichols worked as a corporate financial analyst, where he coordinated with senior management on a variety of projects across the firm's capital markets, private equity, private debt, and real estate verticals. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in economics and business from the University of California, Santa Barbara.