Fiesta Sports Foundation

A University of Arizona graduate, Patrick Barkley is a principal with Gantry, the largest independently-owned commercial mortgage banking firm in the western United States. With 30 years of experience, Gantry sources commercial real estate loans for life company and correspondent lenders. Gantry has an S&P rated servicing portfolio of loans totaling approximately $13 billion in assets.

Barkley, who first became involved with the Fiesta Bowl in 1998, joined the Yellow Jacket Committee in 2000 and served as Yellow Jacket Committee Chair for the 2008-09 season. For the last two seasons, he was the Board Chair-Elect and was a member of the Executive Committee for four years. Barkley contributed and had leadership roles with a wide-range of committees, including game operations, sales commissioner, recruiting commissioner and as a team liaison. Currently, Barkley services as the Chairman of the Board for the 2019-21 seasons.

Barkley and his wife Allison have two sons, Michael and Matthew.