Gig Harbor resident Lysa Barbano has been named vice president and private banking manager for the South Sound as part of Wells Fargo’s new Washington Community Private Banking initiative. She will manage a team of community private bankers to serve the needs of clients in south King County south to Olympia, the Kitsap and Olympic Peninsulas, Longview and Centralia.

Barbano is a 22-year financial services veteran, who most recently worked as a premier banking market manager for Bank of America.