Washington Federal Promotes Bryan Lutz as Its New Northern Washington Regional President
January 05 2018 - 5:00PM
Business Wire
Washington Federal, Inc. (NASDAQ: WAFD) today announced that
effective February 2, 2018, Bryan Lutz will lead its Northern
Washington Region as Senior Vice President and Regional President.
Tom Kenney, its current Northern Washington Regional President, is
retiring effective February 2, 2018, after serving in this capacity
over the last eight years. Bryan is well known to many of
Washington Federal clients as he has been serving as one of the
bank’s division managers since 2012.
Washington Federal President & CEO, Brent Beardall, said,
“We are pleased to see Bryan step up to this well-deserved
leadership role. Our Washington roots go all the way back to 1917
with our original branch in Ballard, Washington. Over the decades,
via both organic growth and acquisition, Washington Federal’s
presence north of Seattle has grown steadily. Today, the Northern
Washington Region is one of our top performers, with forty-four
retail offices, $1.2 billion in deposits, and $1.35 billion in
loans. I am confident Bryan is the right leader to continue to grow
our customer base, raise our visibility and take us to the next
level.
Lutz shared, “I am honored and excited about this opportunity
and believe that Washington Federal is well positioned in Northern
Washington to help clients achieve their goals and our communities
to flourish.”
Effective February 2, 2018, Bob Peters, Washington Federal’s
Executive Vice President and Group Manager of Commercial Banking
will lead the commercial banking teams in Bellingham. Peters has
more than thirty years of commercial banking experience in the
Puget Sound area and is familiar with many of the bank’s commercial
clients and prospective clients. Both Grace Peschek, Vice President
and Division Manager, and Jonathan Ensch, Vice President and Senior
Relationship Manager, as well as the other commercial bankers based
in Bellingham, will be reporting to Peters.
Prior to joining Washington Federal in 2008, Lutz held mortgage
leadership positions with several financial institutions in the
Northwest and Midwest. In 2010, Bryan assumed leadership of
Washington Federal’s Tucson, Arizona Retail Banking Division as
Vice President and Division Manager. After two very successful
years in Tucson, Lutz returned to Western Washington to assume the
role of Senior Vice President and Manager of Washington Federal’s
Mid-Sound Retail Banking Division. Under his leadership, the
division was consistently one of the top producing divisions of the
bank.
Washington Federal is a national bank that operates 237 branches
in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Texas, Nevada and New
Mexico. Publicly traded since 1982, the bank recently marked its
139th consecutive quarter of paying dividends. Washington Federal
provides consumer and commercial deposit accounts, financing for
small to middle market businesses, commercial real estate and
residential real estate, including consumer mortgages, home equity
lines of credit and insurance products through a subsidiary. As of
September 30, 2017, the Company reported $15.3 billion in assets,
$10.8 billion in deposits and $2 billion in stockholders’
equity.
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Washington Federal, Inc.Brad Goode
206-626-8178Brad.Goode@wafd.com
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