Exhibit 99.1
For Information Contact | ||
At Greater Bay Bancorp: | At Silverman Heller Associates: | |
David L. Kalkbrenner, President and CEO | Philip Bourdillon/Gene Heller | |
(650) 614-5767 | (310) 208-2550 |
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
GREATER BAY BANCORPTO ATTEND
LEHMAN BROTHERS FINANCIAL SERVICES CONFERENCE
PALO ALTO, Calif.—September 4, 2003—Greater Bay Bancorp (Nasdaq:GBBK), an $8.1 billion in assets financial services holding company, announced that David L. Kalkbrenner, President and Chief Executive Officer, will participate in a financial services conference sponsored by Lehman Brothers on September 10, 2003 at 7:45 a.m. EDT.
The Lehman Brothers conference will be accessible on-demand through its website athttp://www.lehman.com/conferences/200309FinancialServices during the conference and for 90 days following the conference.
Slides of Greater Bay Bancorp’s presentation will be filed with the SEC on a Current Report on Form 8-K prior to the presentation. The Form 8-K may be accessed through the Company’s websitehttp://www.gbbk.com or the SEC’s websitehttp://www.sec.gov.
Persons interested in listening to the conferences should access the appropriate websites 15 minutes prior to the start of the conferences to register. It may be necessary to download audio software to hear the presentation.
Greater Bay Bancorp through its eleven subsidiary banks, 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, along with its operating divisions, serves clients throughout Silicon Valley, San Francisco, the San Francisco Peninsula, the East Bay Region, the North Bay Region and the Central Coastal Region. ABD Insurance and Financial Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Greater Bay Bancorp, provides commercial insurance brokerage, employee benefits consulting and risk management solutions to business clients throughout the United States.
For additional information and press releases about Greater Bay Bancorp, visit the Company’s web site athttp://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, 2002, and particularly the discussion of risk factors within such documents.
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