Dean Harrington is the founder and current CEO of Shamrock Home Loans, the area’s largest home lending company. His role is to exemplify the company’s five core values and to set vision and strategy for the staff to inspire and engage. Dean began his consumer finance career in 1984. Dean is the immediate past president and current Board Member of The Rhode Island Mortgage Bankers Association and a member of C12 Southern NE Board of Advisors. In 2014 Dean was recognized by the Banker & Tradesman as one of the dozen most influential mortgage banking executives in New England. Shamrock Financial is a 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 recipient of The Best & Brightest Companies to Work for in The US and one of the top Mortgage Employers by Mortgage Professionals Magazine. The company employs 80 people and has its corporate offices in the Providence area. Dean likes to remind people that Shamrock is God’s company and that he was just the first guy to turn the lights on in 1989. Dean is married and has four children.