Susan Rimmer leads Commercial Banking and Wealth Management, which provides high-touch, relationship-oriented banking and wealth management services to middle-market companies, entrepreneurs, high-net-worth individuals and families across Canada.
Susan was most recently responsible for Global Corporate and Investment Banking for CIBC Capital Markets. Prior to that, she held leadership roles across Capital Markets, including Managing Director and Head of Global Corporate Banking, where she oversaw corporate lending, cash management and correspondent banking across Canada, the U.S., Europe and Asia, and Managing Director and Head of CIBC’s Global Debt Capital Markets Business.
She joined CIBC in 2009 following a 15-year career in global capital markets and investment banking at another major financial institution in London, U.K., and Toronto.
Susan was recognized as one of WXN’s “Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada” in 2018 and has served as the Co-Chair of the CIBC Employee Giving campaign, an Executive Sponsor for the Capital Markets Diversity and Inclusion Committee, a board member of CIBC-Mellon and a board member of CIBC World Markets Inc. Susan is currently serving as a board member of the Michael Garron Hospital Foundation and is a member of Queen’s University Smith School of Business Advisory Council and advisory council for VersaFi, formerly Women in Capital Markets.
Susan holds an MBA from INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France and an Honours Bachelor of Arts From Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario.
