Market Leadership

When Partnership Meets Expertise: Tailored Solutions Built on Trust

May 16, 2025

Guest: Larry Wieseneck, Vice Chair and Head of Corporate and Investment Banking, TD Securities

Host: Tamara Finch, Executive Managing Director, Head of Global Transaction Banking, TD Securities

In this conversation, Tamara Finch, Head of Global Transaction Banking and Larry Wieseneck, Head of Corporate & Investment Banking discuss the importance of client relationships and deep expertise when navigating through a rapidly shifting macro environment. They discuss how this partnership empowers clients to adapt and capitalize on emerging opportunities through tailored solutions across Capital Markets, Investment Banking and Transaction Banking.

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Tamara Finch

Executive Managing Director, Head of Global Transaction Banking, TD Securities

Tamara Finch
Executive Managing Director, Head of Global Transaction Banking, TD Securities

Biography

Tamara Finch is Executive Managing Director and Head of Global Transaction Banking at TD Securities. Tamara joined TD Securities in 2019 to lead the successful growth of TDS’ Financial Sponsors business as a trusted advisor to Private Equity, Infrastructure, and Canadian Pension Plan investors globally and a collaborative internal partner to TDS industry and product partners, Global Markets, TD Commercial Bank and TD Wealth. In her 25+ years of private equity, investment and corporate banking experience, Tamara has built a reputation for being an entrepreneurial change agent, building trust, achieving consensus, and driving value.

Tamara is seen as a senior female role model in Finance, a believer in talent being the key driver of value in all companies, and a passionate advocate of the advancement of women and diverse talent in the workplace, on boards, and in the community. Tamara believes that diversity in teams and board rooms leads to better discussions, better decision making and ultimately better performance. She Co-Chairs the Inclusion & Diversity Leadership Committee for TD Securities and sits on the boards of Women in Capital Markets and the YMCA-GTA.

Prior to joining TD, Tamara was a direct private equity investor and built the successful value creation business for Ontario Teachers’, creating a systematic, repeatable transformation agenda across the global 60+ company direct investment portfolio that consistently delivered top quartile returns. Tamara sat on the Private Capital Underwriting Committee, chaired the Portfolio Monitoring Committee, and took on key leadership roles in strategy, talent and digital innovation for the Canadian pension fund.

Tamara began her finance career at Scotiabank in Corporate Credit focused on leveraged buy-outs. She has extensive board experience including Amica Senior Lifestyles, Exal Group, Alliance Laundry Systems and Women’s College Hospital.

Tamara holds a BA Honours Economics from Queen’s University and an MBA from the University of Toronto. She is a CFA charterholder and holds the ICD.D designation. Outside of work Tamara enjoys community service, spending time with family and friends, and a good tennis match.

Larry Wieseneck

Vice Chair and Head of Corporate and Investment Banking

Larry Wieseneck
Vice Chair and Head of Corporate and Investment Banking

Biography

Larry is Vice Chair and Head of Corporate and Investment Banking, TD Securities. He was Co-President and Head of Investment Banking at Cowen from 2017 until the company’s acquisition by TD Bank Group in March 2023.

Prior to joining Cowen, Larry was COO and Head of Merchant Banking at Roundtable Investment Partners, a Multi-family Office and Registered Investment Advisor. From 1997-2014, he was with Barclays and its predecessor, Lehman Brothers. During the majority of his 17-year tenure, he was the Head of Global Finance and Risk Solutions where he was responsible for the leveraged finance, debt capital markets, loan capital markets, equity capital markets and corporate risk management groups. He also served in a variety of senior roles including Co-Head of Markets and Chief Strategy Officer for the Corporate and Investment Bank.

A passionate supporter of diversity, inclusion and equity, he is currently the executive ally of TD Cowen’s LGBTQ+ employee resource group. Larry serves on the Board of Directors for Echoing Green, an organization that finds emerging leaders with the best ideas for social innovation and invests in the growth of their ideas, their leadership, and their path to lifelong impact.

Larry graduated with a Bachelor of Science from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from New York University Stern School of Business.