NEW YORK, May 14 (Reuters) - Citigroup ( C/PN ) on

Wednesday appointed Wyatt Crowell as head of its North America

commercial bank. Crowell will start in the role this month and

report to the global head of Commercial Bank, Tasnim

Ghiawadwala, and head of North America, Sunil Garg.

Crowell joins from HSBC ( HSBC ), where he has led U.S.

commercial banking since 2015. Before HSBC ( HSBC ), he was at Barclays ( BCS )

, where he ran the global multinational corporates

division and was co-head of U.K. and Ireland corporate banking.

He started his career in investment banking at JPMorgan ( JPM )

.