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Alastair Borthwick is the executive vice president and chief financial officer for Bank of America and is a member of the company’s executive management team.

Borthwick became chief financial officer for Bank of America in 2021. In this role, he is responsible for the overall financial management of the company, including accounting, balance sheet management, financial planning and analysis, corporate treasury, investor relations, corporate investments and tax, and global real estate.

Borthwick most recently served as president of Global Commercial Banking for Bank of America, a position he assumed in 2012. He led the Commercial Bank, one of the company’s eight lines of business, which delivers integrated banking solutions to clients across Middle Market Banking; Real Estate; Healthcare, Education and Not for Profit; and Dealer Financial Services.

Previously, Borthwick was co-head of Global Capital Markets. In that role, he had responsibility for Equity Capital Markets, Investment Grade Debt Capital Markets, Leveraged Finance, and Global Origination for Rates & Currencies. Borthwick has also served as head of Global Investment Grade Debt Capital Markets. Borthwick joined the company in 2005 and spent the prior 12 years at Goldman Sachs.

Borthwick is chair of the Board of Directors of BritishAmerican Business, the leading transatlantic trade association created through the merger between the British-American Chamber of Commerce in the U.S. and the American Chamber of Commerce in the U.K. He also is a member of the board of directors of the Posse Foundation and a member of the Board of Advisors for the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College.