Gillian Charles-Gollop

CIBC Caribbean
Executive Director, Corporate Banking & Sustainable Finance

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Gillian leads the CIBC Caribbean’s regional Corporate Banking and International Corporate Banking teams and has over 30 years’ experience in the banking and financial services sector covering various roles in corporate banking, capital markets, investment banking, governance, strategy, credit risk & operational risk management.

As part of the Corporate & Investment Banking leadership team at CIBC Caribbean, Gillian has successfully arranged and executed more than US$5 billion in loan financing, merger and acquisition advisory transactions arranged for both public and private sector clients in the Caribbean and has made a significant contribution to loan asset growth in various sectors including real estate, renewable energy, infrastructure, regulated telecom and electric utilities.

With CIBC Caribbean’s focus on advancing its ESG strategy, Gillian is the key lead on sustainable finance development initiatives for the delivery of products and solutions to regional sovereign & corporate clients including execution award-winning sustainable loan financing transactions in the region.

Gillian is an Associate of the Institute of Canadian Bankers, received her MBA (Finance) from the University of Leicester, United Kingdom and is a GARP Sustainability & Climate Risk (SCR) Certificate holder.