Westlake Village
30870 Russell Ranch Road
Suite 250
Westlake Village, CA
Biography
Scott Yessner is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of B. Riley Financial, Inc. Yessner has held broad executive roles in financial services and diverse industrial companies with a track record of successful transformations.
Yessner served as CFO for CEMCO, a building materials and steel company and also served as CFO for Universal Technical Institute partnering with the organization to drive a company-wide transformation. Prior to these roles, he served as divisional chief financial officer for Wells Fargo Advisors and MUFG Union Bank and held various finance and strategy roles at Jackson National Life Insurance Company. Yessner has also served as an advisor to private equity firms.
Yessner received a B.A in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles and is a CPA licensed in CA.