Brett Atkinson

Brett is a talented finance executive who has spent the past Eight years in the hospitality business as the CFO for Gemstone Hotels & Resorts and as part developer/owner/ Manager in select service hotel properties. His early career was spent in in Southern California in the highly-regulated mortgage banking industry. There, he had the opportunity of taking one such mortgage bank public in a s uccessful IPO. An eventual acquisition by Washington Mutual Bank moved him to Seattle, where Brett served as WMB’s Commercial Group Controller for many years.

There he led the accounting for some of the largest commercial real estate securitization transactions recorded, while managing bank acquisitions and a $45 billion multifamily and commercial real estate portfolio. Later he joined Wells Fargo Bank in San Francisco as controller for its Consumer Credit Group where he implemented Sarbanes-Oxley and directed accounting and controls for an $85 billion home equity, student loan and unsecured lending portfolio serving more than one million customers. Brett has extensive experience in technical accounting, finance, systems, budgeting, financial reporting and management. Brett is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive) in the state of Missouri and has a degree in Accounting from Brigham Young University.