Gantry Names Doug Thatcher as Senior Director with Firm’s Seattle Production Office

Gantry, the largest independent commercial mortgage banking firm in the U.S., has named Mr. Doug Thatcher as Senior Director with the firm’s Seattle production office. In his new role, Doug will be responsible for developing and serving an extensive client base of borrowers and lenders as a trusted source for placing optimized commercial real estate debt and equity finance structures, loan servicing, and related counsel.

“Doug is a respected peer and top professional in the Seattle Region’s commercial real estate community, and we are extremely pleased he has chosen to join us,” said Mike Wood, Principal and Partner with Gantry. “We expect he will thrive and continue to grow in our independent culture and look forward to his contributions as a valued member of our team.”

“The move to Gantry marks the beginning of a new phase for my commercial mortgage banking career, and I am excited for these new chapters at Gantry,” said Doug Thatcher, Senior Director with Gantry. “The firm’s independent culture is a familiar structure, and Gantry’s extensive roster of life company correspondents, banks, credit unions, CMBS lenders, debt funds and private capital sources will dramatically expand my access to an array of vetted commercial real estate debt and equity sources when serving my clients.”

Doug joins Gantry from his most recent position as a partner with Northwest Commercial Mortgage, an independent Seattle commercial mortgage banking firm. During his nearly three-decade career in commercial real estate finance at Northwest, Doug has secured more than $1.0 billion in commercial real estate debt on behalf of clients throughout the Pacific Northwest region. Before joining Northwest in 1989, he received his BA in Economics from the University of Washington and an MBA in Finance from the University of Notre Dame.