Bret D. Jordan has joined the Boston office of Nashville, Tenn.-based national investment banking firm Avondale Partners, as a senior research analyst. Jordan will focus on the specialty retail and consumer products sectors.

Jordan brings more than 20 years of experience to his position. He joins Avondale from Delta Partners LLC, a small and mid cap equity hedge fund based in Boston, where he was senior analyst/vice president responsible for the global consumer products sector.

Prior to Delta, he served as managing director and senior analyst covering specialty retail and consumer products for Advest Inc. Early in his career, he covered restaurants and specialty foods for John Hancock/Tucker Anthony’s institutional research effort and spent four years with The Boston Company Institutional Investors.