Brett Villaume, CMT, CAIA, is President of the CMT Association and has served on the Board of Directors since 2014. Additionally, Brett is a Wealth Advisor at Dogpatch Capital, a registered investment advisor in San Francisco, CA.

From 2015 to 2021, Brett served as Senior Vice President and Director of Investor Relations at Pacific Premier Bancorp, Inc., a regional commercial bank headquartered in Irvine, California. From 2004 to 2014, Brett was Vice President and Research Analyst with FIG Partners, a boutique broker-dealer specializing in Bank and Thrift equity investments, where he specialized in fundamental and technical analysis of small- to mid-sized banks in the western region of the US. From 1999-2004, Brett was a Research Analyst at Neovest Trading, a trading software development firm and regional broker-dealer, where he authored daily technical analysis commentary and co-managed the firm’s proprietary quantitative stock picking model. Brett previously was Adjunct Professor of Technical Analysis at Golden Gate University in San Francisco, California from 2013 to 2019.

Brett previously served as Co-Chair of the Atlanta, Northern California, and Los Angeles chapters of the CMT Association. Additionally, Brett is a board member of the Technical Securities Analysts Association of San Francisco (TSAA-SF), an IFTA member society. Brett achieved the Chartered Market Technician (CMT) designation in 2005 and the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designation in 2012.