Gantry Promotes Abi Hunter to Director with Firm’s Salt Lake City Production Team

New Role Focuses Her on Leading Commercial Real Estate Debt and Equity Client Financing Assignments with Gantry’s Extensive Roster of Correspondent and Affiliate Lenders

Gantry, the largest independent commercial mortgage banking firm in the U.S., has promoted Ms. Abi Hunter to the position of Director working from the firm’s Salt Lake City production office. In this new role, Abi will identify new client assignments and develop a self-directed book of debt and equity financing business. She will also continue to collaborate on client assignments with Gantry’s National loan production teams serving clients across the nation from 12 regional offices.

“As a commercial mortgage banking firm dedicated to its core tenets of client service and fiduciary excellence, Gantry focuses on developing talent capable of growing into the role of an independent producer empowered to carry forward the firm’s mission of delivering value through optimized commercial real estate finance,” said Amit Tyagi, Principal and Partner with Gantry. “Abi’s rapid development from Associate to Senior Associate and now Director reflects her strategic approach to commercial real estate finance and professional drive, and we look forward to her continued growth as a loan production leader for our national platform in this new role.”

Since joining Gantry in June 2023, Abi Hunter has successfully processed and closed financings in excess of $393 million for a wide range of asset classes in twenty-six states with forty-nine of Gantry’s lender partners. Prior to joining Gantry, Abi built a career in fintech and digital payments, managing her employer’s payments programs with global companies including Apple, Amazon, Google, Netflix, Microsoft and Standard Chartered Bank. Her work included negotiating commercial agreements, expanding existing relationships, launching new lines of business, and leading international market expansion. She has lived in and around the Salt Lake City region over the past 20 years and received her bachelor’s degree from Weber State University in Ogden, Utah.