Bryan M Bennett

Bryan Bennett serves as Senior Special Counsel in the Division of Examinations in the Los Angeles Regional Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Mr. Bennett joined the SEC’s Los Angeles office in 2008 as an examiner and later was named an Exam Manager and Assistant Regional Director, leading numerous teams in the investment adviser and investment company examination program. During his tenure, exam findings by the teams led to significant enforcement actions, including a case charging a Santa Monica, California-based hedge fund manager with fraud in a multi-million dollar cherry picking scheme, and a case against an investment adviser for promoting a wealth management strategy that he falsely claimed had been empirically back-tested. From 2015 through 2022, Mr. Bennett served as the Associate Regional Director of the Los Angeles Regional Office’s examination program, overseeing all examination teams responsible for conducting examinations of registered entities including investment advisers, investment companies, broker-dealers, transfer agents, and municipal advisers located in Southern California, Arizona, Nevada, Hawaii, and Guam. Mr. Bennett is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Iowa College of Law. He also has four years of litigation experience in the private sector.