Lynn Anderson

Lynn brings over 35 years of experience and insights into creating and planning physical distribution networks in the retail bank arena.    For her,  the all important bottom line contribution is maximizing an institution’s market coverage to win over customers’ hearts, minds and wallets.    For the last seven years, Lynn served as Senior Director & Market Planner in the development of Capital One’s Cafe network across the US.   

Lynn has held senior leaderships positions with some of the largest institutions in her long career in retail banking strategy and planning.   Prior to joining Capital One Bank in 2011, Lynn was a SVP at Bank of America, heading up the Retail Distribution Strategy and Planning team.   Additionally, she spent 21 years at Washington Mutual Bank (“too big to fail”} helping grow the physical branch network from 38 branches in Washington State to over 2,000 nationwide through both de novo and retail bank acquisitions.   She was a key leader in the rollout of WaMu’s Occasio branch network as well as one of the chief strategists in rationalizing WaMu’s branch network in California after completing three large bank acquisitions.  Lynn also consulted for Wachovia Bank on their California market entry.   

Lynn attended Colgate University in upstate NY where she completed undergraduate degrees in Geography and Mathematics.   She did her graduate studies in Economic Geography at the University of Washington in Seattle.   Lynn fell in love with the Pacific Northwest upon her arrival in Seattle and has lived in Washington State ever since.   She has been happily married for nearly 38 years to one of her fellow students at the UW.   They have two grown children.  Lynn and her husband currently reside in Gig Harbor, Washington.