Kim Bruce

Kimberly Bruce is a Managing Director and leads a middle market banking team covering West and North Florida for CIBC. As one of the five largest banks in Canada with $597B in assets, CIBC maintains its global headquarters in Toronto and US headquarters in Chicago. In middle market banking, her team works with public, private and sponsor backed companies with annual revenues between $25 million and $2 billion to provide commercial lending, treasury, capital markets and enterprise solutions.

Prior to joining CIBC, Kimberly was the National Small Business Client Management Executive at Bank of America where she was responsible for leading a line of business with more than $4B in loans, $13B in deposits and 100,000+ client relationships across the U.S. With more than 29 years of commercial banking experience, she has held various leadership and individual contributor roles focused on working with companies to develop strategic financial solutions and partnerships. Also, as a senior leader at Bank of America she served as Bank of America’s Executive Advisor in their strategy agreement with work with China Construction Bank in addition to other strategic initiatives and projects.

Kimberly earned her B.A. in Government & Business Administration from the University of Notre Dame and her MBA from The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. She also has held Finra (NASD) Series 7 and 63 licenses.

Kimberly currently serves as Board Chair and member of the Executive Committee for The Florida Aquarium. She has previously served in different leadership capacities in the Tampa community including as Treasurer and Executive Board Member for The Center for Women Centre and as a past member of the Board for The Florida Venture Forum and Association for Corporate Growth.