Jeffrey A. Dunham is Founder and President/CEO of Dunham & Associates Investment Counsel, Inc. He is Chairman and CEO of Dunham Trust Company. He also serves as a Trustee, Chairman, President, and Principal Executive Officer for the Dunham Funds. Mr. Dunham’s investment expertise spans over 30 years, including starting a family of private funds and building the firm upon the premise of performance-based advisory compensation. In his view, performance-based advisory compensation provides investors a level of accountability, which was important then and remains important today.

As founder of a San Diego-based Property Management Company, Mr. Dunham has hands-on experience with equity and debt investments in over $1 billion of commercial and residential real estate. Prior to becoming founding partner of Dunham & Associates in 1985, he was partner in the investment firm of McKewon Securities and worked with Enterprise Management Company, a venture capital affiliate of McKewon.

Mr. Dunham earned a B.S. degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Finance from San Diego State University. He has held FINRA Series 3, 4, 7, 24, 53, and 63 registrations for more than two decades.