Brett Villaume, CMT, CAIA, is Past President of the CMT Association, having served on the Board of Directors since from 2014 to 2023. 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 is an Adjunct Professor of Technical Analysis at Golden Gate University in San Francisco, California. Brett He 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.