Rick Vallieres

Vice President, Senior Equity Analyst Rick brings over 20 years of experience covering the technology sector to the firm.
His background includes sell-side coverage of the software industry and several buy-side roles as a technology analyst.
Rick joins Fiera from Lord Abbett & Co, where he spent nearly 12 years covering the technology industry with a particular focus on software for a variety of investment strategies, including the last three years on the mid-cap and large-cap growth team.
Before Lord Abbett, Rick was a software analyst and technology generalist at AllianceBernstein in New York and a technology analyst at Heirloom Capital Management in Greenwich, CT.
Prior to this, he was at Credit Suisse covering Internet stocks and a publishing analyst in Enterprise Software.
Rick is a Chartered Financial Analyst, has an MBA in Analytic Finance from the University of Chicago Booth Graduate School of Business, and a Bachelor of Science in Commerce & Engineering from Drexel University.