Yahoo Finance WCM’s Return to Bay Street Program brings 13 women back into the finance industry
TORONTO, July 04, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- WCM’s 2022 Return to Bay Street (RTBS) Program has had another successful year, with a total of 13 recipients. RTBS is an industry-wide collaboration that provides an on-ramp for experienced women returning to careers in capital markets. Since 2010, RTBS has relaunched the careers of 106 women in Canadian finance. This year, the program has on-ramped 13 women back to mid-level roles in the finance industry.
Congratulations to this year’s cohort of WCM RTBS recipients:
Tarang Agarwal, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan
Caroline Cruickshank, CIBC Capital Markets
Mary Juwape, BMO Capital Markets
Kavi Khandelwal, TD Securities
Mary Macharia, RBC Capital Markets
Oyinkan Ogungbemile, RBC Capital Markets
Omobola Ogunti, BMO Capital Markets
Adeola Ogunyemi, Manulife Investment Management
Zhen Qin, BMO Wealth Management
Sue Ann Van Damme, Mackenzie Investments
RTBS Recipient, Manulife Investment Management
Catherine Winchell, Gluskin Sheff + Associates
Sabrina Wu, RBC Capital Markets
“The Women in Capital Markets Return to Bay Street program continues to provide high calibre professional women the opportunity to relaunch their careers in Finance. This year the broad outreach across networks sourced a tremendous number of candidates, giving sponsors a competitive edge in the advancement of workplace equity, diversity and inclusion initiatives,” said Mary Ann Mendes, WCM Co-Chair, BMO Financial Group. “As the founding sponsor of the WCM RTBS award, in line with their Zero Barriers to Inclusion Strategy, BMO is happy to welcome 3 recipients this year.”
Launched in 2010 by WCM and founding sponsor BMO Capital Markets—through funding from BMO’s Equity Through Education program— WCM's RTBS program is designed to facilitate the return to the workforce of experienced women who have previously held mid-level and senior positions in finance, have taken time away from their careers, and are now interested in returning. Each recipient named above receives a paid work contract at an RTBS partner institution, an education grant, mentorship, and a one-year WCM Membership. By offering this program, WCM and its 2022 RTBS partners — BMO Capital Markets, BMO Wealth Management, CIBC, Mackenzie Investments, Manulife, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, Onex & Gluskin Sheff, RBC Capital Markets, Scotiabank Global Banking and Markets, TD Securities and TD Asset Management (a division of TD Wealth) — are proactively accelerating women’s representation in the capital markets industry.
“WCM is thrilled to see a tremendous number of qualified women returning to the industry through the RTBS program. We are grateful to our sponsors for their support of the program and their work in helping the program grow beyond traditional capital markets roles. We wish all the 2022 recipients the best of luck in their new roles,” said Lara Zink, President and CEO of WCM.
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Building equity literacy
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