George J. Fantini, Jr. has been active in real estate finance for more than 35 years. After 15 years as a lender at State Street Bank and BayBank, in 1981 Mr. Fantini established a highly successful mortgage banking operation at the Boston Financial Group, one of the nation's leading real estate investment banking firms. In 1995 he co-founded Fantini & Gorga. Over the past three decades, Mr. Fantini has directly supervised the successful completion of more than 500 transactions, dealing with both debt and equity on a wide range of property types.

At Fantini & Gorga, Mr. Fantini is active in new business development and strategic planning, while overseeing a range of financing transactions for clients of the firm. He holds a BSA from Bentley College and an MBA from Boston College. A noted speaker on industry trends, he is the principal author of the Master Money Matrix © series. Mr. Fantini has served as a director of the Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency, Atlantic Bank, Northeast Savings, NAIOP, and the Boston Financial Group; and he has been a trustee of Meditrust and of Bentley College. In 1987, Mr. Fantini persuaded the Greater Boston Real Estate Board to launch a separate division to deal solely with real estate finance, and served as the founding president of what is known today as the Real Estate Finance Association, with over 2,000 members. In 1997 REFA honored him with the Robert Swain, Jr. award for his distinguished contributions to the real estate finance industry.