Mike Crawford

Mike Crawford is a senior managing director and head of the Discovery Group at B. Riley Securities, initially joining B. Riley & Co. in March 1999, where he covered a wide range of special situations during a nearly six-year tenure. From January 2005 through March 2007, Mr. Crawford served as research director of Barrington Wilshire, Inc., providing services to its two managed hedge funds, Barrington Partners and Barrington Investors. From Barrington, Mr. Crawford moved to Riley Investment Management LLC in April 2007, serving as research director until December 2008, when he switched back over to the sell side at B. Riley & Co. From December 2008 to May 2010, Mr. Crawford was a director of TranSwitch Corporation, a NASDAQ-listed communications IC supplier. Prior to business school, from 1990 to 1996, Mr. Crawford worked in a variety of positions at Sumitomo Bank of California, including public affairs, fixed income portfolio management, trading, and as assistant corporate secretary.

Mr. Crawford earned an MBA at USC's Marshall School of Business in 1998 and joined Seidler AMDEC Research as a sell-side analyst before joining B. Riley & Co. as a senior analyst. Mr. Crawford earned his Bachelor of Science from UC Berkeley in 1988.