Bethany Lyons
Senior Vice President and Team Leader, Commercial Real Estate
Bethany knows that strong relationships and excellent customer service is the key to growing commercial real estate business. For the past 20 years, building these relationships has helped her to expand the bank’s lending footprint and structure deals in a way that is suitable to her clients needs. After joining the Bank in 2001 and completing a management training program, she joined the commercial lending department as an analyst and transitioned to a lender in 2010. She is currently responsible for managing an existing portfolio as well as developing new relationships and facilitating customer solutions in the financing of construction, repositioning, equity replenishment, and acquisition of real estate investment projects.
In addition to her work at The Washington Trust Company, Bethany serves as Board President of the Frank Olean Center in Westerly, RI. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance, as well as a Master in Business Administration, from Providence College, and resides in Mystic, CT with her family.