Thank you for joining our call this afternoon. Before we get into these results for the quarter, I want to thank our employees, investors and partners for your continued patience throughout what has been a highly unusual period for our firm. Against that backdrop, I'd like to start by putting our operating performance for the quarter into perspective and then providing some context on our investments. We had a solid quarter from an operating perspective. We generated $66 million of operating adjusted EBITDA compared to $88 million in the same period last year. Our Advisory Services business had a record Q1. BRAS saw increased fee income year-over-year despite a decrease in overall Capital Markets segment revenues, and Wealth Management operating margins have continued to improve. At the same time, we monetized investments consistent with our business model and uses capital to both repay outstanding debt while investing in attractive new opportunities such as Nogin. For context, our first quarter results reflected $59 million of investment-related losses, which are primarily unrealized, in addition to incremental costs due to the late filing of our 10-K, internal review and subsequent independent investigation undertaken by our Board's Audit Committee, which we are happy to have behind us. In contract, last year, our first quarter results benefited from approximately $23 million of investment-related gains and an increase in interest income from a pool of performing consumer receivables that we acquired from Babcock in the prior year, which has generated returns north of 20%. That portfolio is maturing as reflected in the year-over-year change in our net -- our total loan receivables balance. On a more normalized basis and excluding the incremental costs and our noncash gains and losses, operating income was flat at approximately $33 million when compared to the same period last year. From a revenue prospectus -- excuse me, from a revenue perspective, the increase in fee income in our Capital Markets segment was offset by lower interest income in line with the reduction of consumer receivables and our overall loan portfolio from the same period in 2023. As I mentioned, Advisory Services had a record first quarter. This was both in terms of revenue and operating income. This is a business that was generating approximately $76 million in revenue a little over 3 years ago and is now generating revenues at an annual rate of over $100 million. Operating margins in our Wealth Management business have continued to improve over the last few years, and while Targus is continuing to work through the macro headwinds that impacted the global PC market, we believe the business is well positioned for when this market normalizes. I appreciate some of this call may -- some on this call may be new to our story. It's important for investors to understand that we have a long history of making investments and acquisitions, and we utilize the services and expertise on our platform to not only maximize the potential value of our investments but also to manage any potential downside. This is core to our business and what we do. Our portfolio is going to fluctuate in marks from quarter-to-quarter due to the nature of our investments. We acknowledge the volatility this creates in our periodic results. However, it is important to view our investments over a longer time horizon. As I mentioned, net loss for the quarter included an investment loss of $59 million, which was driven by changes in fair market valuations for our investments, including Freedom VCM, which consists of the underlying business of FRG, and also investment in BW. As we discussed on our last call, since the closing of FRG's take-private in August of last year, FRG management has executed 2 transactions that are aligned with our stated investment thesis. Those 2 transactions are the sale of Badcock Furniture in December '23 and Sylvan Learning in February '24, which sold for a higher multiple than what FRG management expected and that was originally underwritten for this business. The adjustment in the fair market value for Freedom reflected the overall softness in the consumer market during the first quarter. Despite the change, we remain confident in the operators and the management team of each of these businesses and in their ability to execute on strategy. For those familiar with B. Riley, you know we often describe our firm as a collection of operating businesses on the one hand and our investment book on the other. What perhaps is less appreciated is the challenges that the uniqueness of our firm present from an evaluation perspective for investors in looking at our P&L and balance sheet relative to the inherent value we've created with our wholly owned subsidiaries and the businesses we have built. For perspective, over the last year, we have taken noncash impairment charges related to Targus, which has underperformed since we purchased it 1.5 years ago. On the other hand, our Great American businesses, which consists of appraisal and asset disposition, are on our books for approximately $35 million. And our GlassRatner advisory business, which we acquired in 2018 and has approximately $35 million invested, including tuck-ins, combined in 2023 to generate approximately $52 million of operating income, which includes a roughly $1 million of income from our real estate advisory. This $52 million is represented in our auction and liquidation and financial segment income. Taken together, our core operations continue to generate strong free cash flow. And combined with the actions we are taking, we expect to exit 2024 with ample liquidity to aggressively capitalize on the opportunities ahead of us. We remain focused on running our business in the best interest of our stakeholders by addressing the needs of our clients, partners and employees. The market opportunity in the small- and mid-cap space remains as attractive as ever, and we believe B. Riley is uniquely positioned to meet the needs of companies in this space. To that end, we are pleased to deliver our investors a dividend of $0.50 per share related to our operating performance for the first quarter. We're thankful to our many supporters for their outreach and continued confidence in B. Riley. With that, I will turn the call over to Phil Ahn, our CFO and COO, to discuss key metrics for the quarter. Phil?