Babes On Bay Street

Janet Graham's Bio

Janet Graham spent 15 years on Bay Street, mostly in the employ of CIBC where she rose from Associate to Vice President of Real Estate Lending, one of the first ten women at CIBC to attain the position of Vice President and the first female lender to achieve this status. She spent the last three years of her career on Bay Street working at Wood Gundy, where she worked in Investment Banking. When she left the business in 1996, she built a consulting/advisory services business focused on real estate finance. Today, Janet is a Corporate Director/Trustee on the boards of several publicly-traded entities and the Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corporation which is funded by the federal, provincial and city governments. She provides executive coaching and leadership development workshops on an exclusive basis. Janet is an MBA/CA. When Janet left Bay Street, her life changed dramatically. She bought a house and renovated it, became a dog owner and a coach, got married for the first time and became a mom to four beautiful children, joined several boards and agreed to chair several of their audit committees. And it took her all of these years to do what a friend finally challenged her to do, begin to tell the stories of the “Babes on Bay Street”.