She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto and has been recognized as one of the Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada.
[1] She has worked in senior positions for CIBC[2] and Foresters[3] and in 2019 she was named President and CEO of the Global Risk Institute.
[8] Under her leadership of the Retail Market, CIBC became Canada's largest issuer of Visa and MasterCard.
[16] In December 2019 the Global Risk Institute announced that Baxendale would replace Richard Nesbitt as CEO effective January 7, 2020.
[21] The orchestra announced that Sonia Baxendale would assume the interim role for six months while a replacement for Melanson was found.