Board of Directors
for City National Corporation (ticker symbol: CYN)

Michael L. Meyer
Director
City National Corporation

Managing Principal
AMG Realty Investors

Michael L. Meyer retired September 30, 1998 as managing partner of the E & Y Kenneth Leventhal Real Estate Group of Ernst & Young LLP (EYKL) Orange County Office. Having started with Kenneth Leventhal & Company in Los Angeles in 1963, Mr. Meyer has been active in the Southern California and national real estate industry for more than 40 years, and he was a key partner in growing the firm to become the largest group of real estate accounting and consulting professionals in the nation.

AMG Realty Investors is a commercial real estate investment company, which pursues direct investments as a sponsor, as well as investing equity capital with developers and owners. In addition, the company delivers capital advisory services backed by established market relationships and offers expert investment management services to a diverse investor base. The business model is focused on opportunistic investments in segments and locations that are tactically identified by management.

Together with partners, Mr. Meyer has invested in shopping centers, office and industrial buildings, multi-family projects, residential tract and condominium developments, public storage properties and land developments. He also was a member of two entities that acquired Japanese non-performing real estate bank loans and an office building in Japan.

For outstanding achievements in the real estate industry and community, Mr. Meyer was inducted into the California Building Industry Foundation Hall of Fame in June 1999. He was named the 1999 Chapman University Distinguished Research Awardee, and he was the 1998 recipient of the University of California Irvine (UCI) Graduate School of Management Real Estate Program Lifetime Achievement Award. Mr. Meyer has been honored by the United Way (Alexis de Tocqueville Society Award), City of Hope (Spirit of Life Award), Jewish National Fund (Tree of Life Award), and the American Jewish Committee (Human Relations Award). He and his wife Nancy received the Humanitarian Award by the British American Business Council in 2005. They are members of the United Way Tocqueville National Society and trustees of the Laguna Theatre.

Mr. Meyer is a board member of City National Corporation, Paladin Realty Income Properties, Inc. and South Coast Repertory; and founder and board member emeritus of the Orange County Forum. He was previously a director of William Lyon Homes, the Building Industry Alliance Foundation and the Construction Industries Alliance for the City of Hope; chair of the United Way’s Alexis de Tocqueville Society; chair of the advisory board of the real estate program and current executive advisory board member of the UCI Paul Merage School of Business-Center for Real Estate; member of the UCI Chief Executive Roundtable; and president of the board of The Wellness Community—Orange County. He also is a member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI), and American Institute and California Society of Certified Public Accountants (CPA).

He is a native of Omaha, Neb., and graduate of the University of Iowa. A resident of Laguna Beach, Mr. Meyer and his wife have four children and three grandsons.