Greater Bay Bancorp Appoints Kamran Husain as Controller and Chief Acc

    Business Editors

    PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 22, 2005--Greater Bay Bancorp (Nasdaq:GBBK), a $6.9 billion in assets financial services holding company, announced that Kamran Husain has been appointed Controller and Chief Accounting Officer of the Company.
    "Kamran's demonstrated leadership, diligence, expertise, hard work, results-orientation, and unquestioned integrity have provided tangible evidence that this new increased responsibility is most well deserved," stated Byron A. Scordelis, President and Chief Executive Officer of Greater Bay Bancorp.
    Mr. Husain joined the Company in 1999 as Senior Vice President of Finance and Risk Management and has subsequently held roles in corporate development, accounting, financial reporting, and planning. He began his career in 1989 as a Financial Analyst with Kidder Peabody in New York, and joined PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1993 where he rose to the position of Senior Manager before joining the Company.
    "Kamran has made significant contributions to Greater Bay Bancorp's franchise growth and to financial control infrastructure development. This promotion reflects the high level of achievement his efforts have produced," stated James S. Westfall, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.
    Mr. Husain is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University, and earned an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley.

    About Greater Bay Bancorp

    Greater Bay Bancorp, a diversified financial services holding company, provides community banking services in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area through its community banking organizations, including Bank of Petaluma, Bank of Santa Clara, Bay Area Bank, Bay Bank of Commerce, Coast Commercial Bank, Cupertino National Bank, Golden Gate Bank, Mid-Peninsula Bank, Mt. Diablo National Bank, Peninsula Bank of Commerce, and San Jose National Bank. Nationally, Greater Bay Bancorp provides customized lending services through its specialty finance group, which includes Matsco, CAPCO and Greater Bay Capital. ABD Insurance and Financial Services, the Company's commercial insurance brokerage subsidiary, provides employee benefits consulting and risk management solutions to business clients throughout the United States. For additional information, please visit http://www.gbbk.com.

    Safe Harbor

    This document may contain forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. For a discussion of factors that could cause actual results to differ, please see the publicly available Securities and Exchange Commission filings of Greater Bay Bancorp, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2003, and particularly the discussion of risk factors within such documents.

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CONTACT: Greater Bay Bancorp Byron A. Scordelis, 650-614-5751 President and CEO or James S. Westfall, 650-813-8275 EVP and CFO or Silverman Heller Associates Philip Bourdillon/Gene Heller, 310-208-2550

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