In the beginning of 2012, Stephen Bottomley became Senior Executive Vice President and Head of Commercial Banking for North America at HSBC North America Holdings Inc. This puts him in the position of managing the company’s commercial banking operations throughout America, Canada and Bermuda. Other roles Bottomley has held at the company include: Head of Strategy and Planning for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region; Head of European Strategy; Head of Commercial Banking in the United Kingdom and the Head of Commercial Finance in Europe.