Head of Corporate Banking and Specialized Finance
TD Bank
Sports analogies are rife when talking about business, but when Jill Gateman describes the middle market as a team of quarterbacks, you listen. That's because Gateman has spent the better part of the last two decades shaping the middle market offering of industry leaders such as PNC. While she takes on a broader remit in her new role as co-head of U.S. commercial banking, her experiences working with the middle market still drives her thinking.
"If you're familiar with middle market, I look at them as almost like the quarterback. They bring the whole bank to all of our clients and prospects," Gateman observed. Her new role has given her a different perspective on how it fits into the larger commercial bank offering.
That role focuses on TD's national corporate and specialty businesses, including middle market, sponsor-backed and fund finance, institutional commercial real estate, asset-based lending, franchise finance, healthcare, municipal, non-profit and higher education. (Until September 2024, Gateman was head of corporate banking and specialized finance, the role on which her 2025 ranking is based, as per American Banker's methodology requiring a full year of performance.)