Brian LoweryMEMPHIS, Tenn., January 25, 2018 – Brian Lowery was recently hired at BankTennessee as senior lender and senior vice president, announced Jim Rout, bank president & chief executive officer. He will work out of the Downtown Memphis office.

“Brian is a great addition to our commercial loan team. With his strong lending and deposit building experience, he will be an asset to our customers and the bank,” said Rout. 


Lowery has over 25 years of banking experience. Prior to joining BankTennessee, he served as chief credit officer and senior lender at Highlands Union Bank in Abingdon, Virginia since 2016. Before moving to Virginia, he worked in Memphis at Commercial Bank & Trust Company as vice president in the legal banking group and SunTrust as a first vice president in private wealth management. Lowery also served as an adjunct professor at the University of Memphis teaching courses on money and banking, international finance markets and institutions, real estate finance and entrepreneurial finance.

He is a graduate of the University of Mississippi in Oxford with a Bachelor of Business Administration and a concentration in managerial and banking finance. He received a Master of Business Administration in finance at the University of Memphis. 

Married to Yvonne Sievert-Lowery, they have five children Justin Lowery, 30, Hannah Lowery, 22, Blake Lowery, 20, Danielle Geronimo, 19, and Denise Geronimo, 15. 

About BankTennessee
“We take banking personally and are committed to providing a personal level of service where our customers matter. It’s a philosophy that has worked for us since our bank was founded in Memphis in 1934, more than 80 years ago. We attribute our success to our personnel and local communities we support,” said Jim Rout, chief executive officer and president of the bank.”

Headquartered in Collierville, Tennessee, BankTennessee has 8 retail banking offices located in Collierville, East and Downtown Memphis, Germantown, Ripley, Munford, and Lebanon in Middle Tennessee. 

As of December 31, 2017, BankTennessee had $308,178,832 in assets. The bank offers a full range of financial products and services including personal and business checking accounts, mobile banking, online banking, mortgages, home equity lines of credit, custom construction loans, commercial and consumer loans, treasury management, remote capture and merchant card services.