San Diego County
		Population 2,821,000 Average Household Income $62,678 Number of Businesses 106,805 Major Industries: Professional Services, Tourism, Telecommunications, Air/Space/Defense, Technology, Construction

Our Colleagues and Our Constituencies

The driving force behind City National's continued success and The City National Difference is our growing team of talented colleagues. In 2000, we invested even more in training programs to help our colleagues skillfully deliver to their clients our growing suite of products and services. We further refined our compensation plans to give meaningful financial incentives for delivering exceptional client service, growing our product usage, expanding our client base and concurrently building value for our shareholders. One central ingredient in this is our stock option plan. Although our stock option awards are comparable in total to those of our peer banks, we distribute this long-term incentive more broadly and more deeply throughout our organization.

During 2000, we were pleased to strengthen our senior management team by welcoming three new members to our Executive Committee. Thomas Miller, an experienced marketing professional, joined the bank as our new Executive Vice President and Director of Marketing. Two excellent City National executives were promoted to the Executive Committee: Kim Bingham, Senior Vice President, Structured Finance Division and Jeffrey Smith, Senior Vice President, Westside Region.