The Freedom Bank of Virginia announced that Rob Dyson has been appointed as senior vice president (SVP) and Government Contracting and Information Technology Industry practice leader. In his new role, Dyson will assist in driving business growth and providing government contracting and other information technology clients with advice, customised lending solutions, and treasury services. Dyson was most recently senior vice president and market credit executive at Capital One.

In this role, he leveraged credit and capital structure expertise as the in-market client facing credit expert for clients, client teams and prospects. He led a team of portfolio analysts to manage the Northern Virginia/DC/Maryland credit portfolios. Before Capital One, Dyson was senior vice president and senior credit product officer/market credit officer at Bank of America/Merrill Lynch.