Corporate Banking

Patti Perras Shugart is Head, Global Corporate Banking and a member of the Operating Committee at RBC Capital Markets. In her role, Patti oversees a team of approximately 600 professionals globally who specialize in lending, trading credit, loan portfolio management and transaction banking for our corporate and institutional clients. She also chairs the Loan Portfolio Review Committee and the Commitments Committee which determine the firm’s global lending decisions.

Patti is a strong advocate for diversity and inclusion. She sits on the firm’s Capital Markets Global Diversity Leadership Council, is a co-founder of RWomen, a global internal forum dedicated to fostering and developing female talent, and she chairs VersaFi’s Advisory Council. She is RBC’s Executive Sponsor for the United Way’s Women United group, is a past United Way Cabinet Member, and a past Executive Champion for the Toronto RBC Race for the Kids. Patti has been recognized for her outstanding contributions to the industry through the VersaFi Visionary Award in 2025, the Champion of Change Award in 2016, and the Award for Leadership in 2010. She was also named one of Canada's Top 100 Most Powerful Women by Women's Executive Network in both 2015 and 2017.

Patti has an MBA from the University of Toronto (Rotman) and a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) from Queen’s University.

Ralph Sehgal is Deputy Head, Global Corporate Banking, a business with offices across Canada, the US, Europe and Australia. He also leads a team of professionals in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver that provide client coverage across a broad range of industries and also sits on a number of internal committees, including the Corporate Banking/Global Credit Operating Committee and the loan Commitments Committee.

Prior to joining RBC Capital Markets in 2009, Ralph spent 13 years at CIBC World Markets in a number of roles, the most recent of which was Managing Director and Team Leader covering large corporate clients. Ralph also spent a number of years living and working abroad in Finland, Switzerland and England for Credit Suisse.

Ralph is a strong advocate for diversity and inclusion.  He is a National Executive Co-Sponsor of Mosaic, an employee resource group focused on promoting an inclusive environment within RBC Capital Markets.  Ralph was also named a Women in Capital Markets (now VersaFi) Champion of Change in 2023.

Ralph is a former member of the United Way Toronto's MIG Cabinet. He is a graduate of the University of Guelph holding a Combined Honors degree in Management and Economics, as well as Queen’s University where he earned a Master of Business Administration degree. Ralph also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

Jim Allred is Vice Chair, Energy Corporate Banking for RBC Capital Markets. Jim joined RBC in 2008 and has over 35 years of corporate finance experience in the Energy industry. Previously, Jim has held senior management positions with Bank of America and Societe Generale as well as a position within the energy industry as Vice President and Treasurer of Link Energy, a crude oil gathering and transportation company.

Jim has served on educational and charitable boards including the Alumni Advisory Board of the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas - Austin and the Forge for Families which assists underprivileged children in Houston. Jim graduated from the University of Texas in 1986 with a BBA degree in Finance.

Mike Gaudet is Global Head Energy and Power, Utilities & Infrastructure (PU&I) Lending at RBC Capital Markets. He leads a geographically distributed team across Calgary, Toronto, Houston, and New York, while maintaining close coordination with offices in London and Sydney. In this role, Mike oversees a comprehensive banking practice that partners with product and coverage teams to structure innovative debt financing solutions, execute complex transactions, and unlock the full breadth of RBC's capabilities for energy sector clients - driving long-term client relationships.

With 20 years at RBC Capital Markets, Mike brings deep expertise in debt related transactions and relationships. During his first decade with the firm, he led the structuring and execution of major non-recourse financings for energy and power infrastructure across North America.

Beyond his professional responsibilities, Mike serves on the Board of WinSport, a Calgary-based nonprofit that leverages the legacy of the 1988 Winter Olympics to advance inclusive, world-class athletic training opportunities.

Kathryn Ogden is Global Head Real Estate Corporate Banking and Real Estate Capital Partners at RBC Capital Markets.

Kathryn joined RBC in 2009 in Dallas and was Head of Asset Management for the disposition of RBC’s legacy US real estate loan portfolio prior to helping launch the Real Estate Capital Partners platform in 2011. She moved to London in 2013 to launch the Real Estate Capital Partners platform in Europe before moving back to Dallas in 2016.

Prior to joining RBC, Kathryn worked in the London office of the Real Estate Principal Investment Area of Goldman, Sachs & Co. responsible for the management of a portfolio of real estate assets in the United Kingdom and Europe. Kathryn spent seven years with Goldman, Sachs & Co. in Dallas, Paris and London and has managed the financing, sale or initial public offering of real estate assets located in Canada, the United States and Europe.

Kathryn holds an honors degree in Business from The University of Texas at Austin.

Raja Khanna is Head, U.S. Corporate Banking. He leads a team of senior bankers responsible for relationship management, cross-selling, and transaction execution across the credit ratings spectrum. Sectors covered include Industrials, Consumer, Healthcare, Municipals, Financial Institutions, Media, Telecommunications, and Technology. The Asset-Based Lending team also reports into Mr. Khanna.

He is a member of the Global Loan Commitments Committee, US Capital Markets Operating Committee, and Corporate Banking Global Operating Committee. He is a strong advocate for diversity and inclusion and serves as a member of the US Diversity Leadership Council, Executive Sponsor for RBC Mosaic (focused on promoting inclusion for minority groups), and a Board Member of the Hudson County Boys and Girls Club.

Mr. Khanna joined RBC in 2013, with over two decades of previous experience in investment banking at Barclays and Lehman Brothers and public accounting with Ernst & Young. He holds an MBA in Finance from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master in Accounting and BSPH from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Mr. Dickinson joined RBC Capital Markets in March 2008 as Director in European Leveraged Finance. He was appointed head of European Leveraged Finance in 2017.

Mr. Dickinson remains co-head, European Leveraged Finance (a role he shares with Craig Campbell) and was appointed Managing Director and Head of UK & Europe and Australia Corporate Banking in April 2023.

From April 2009 to June 2010 Mr. Dickinson worked in the Toronto Leveraged Finance team on US and Canadian transactions. In September 2014, he assumed responsibility for the European High Yield Capital Markets. In 2016 he was appointed head of European Sponsor Coverage a role he relinquished in 2022.

From 2006 to 2008 he worked in the Origination and Execution offices for CIBC’s European Leveraged Finance department. Between 2003 and 2006, he worked in Calyon’s Leveraged Finance team in London.

Mr Dickinson gained his MBA at Cranfield Management School between 2002 and 2003 and prior to this was employed between 1996 and 2000 as a Lawyer in the London office of Morgan Lewis working in the corporate finance and banking teams on European and US transactions.