Biography
Patrice McNicoll serves as Co-President and Head of Capital Markets at B. Riley Securities, bringing decades of investment banking experience to the firm's leadership team.
Mr. McNicoll has spent much of his career building and scaling capital markets platforms across a range of institutions. He is the founder and former Chief Executive Officer of MLV & Co., a boutique investment bank he successfully sold to FBR Capital Markets in 2015, a firm later acquired by B. Riley Securities. He also served as a Managing Director at Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. in New York City, where he played a pivotal role in generating revenues and expanding the firm's investment banking platform.
Over the course of his career, Mr. McNicoll has structured and executed a broad range of capital markets transactions for corporate clients across diverse sectors, including cryptocurrency, energy, technology, healthcare, financial services, and industrials.
He began his investment banking career as a Vice President at ABN AMRO and has held positions at other prominent institutions, including The Merchant Bank of Crédit Agricole and Bell Canada.
Mr. McNicoll earned a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Economics from York University and a Master of Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from McGill University.