Executive Committee
for City National Corporation (ticker symbol: CYN)

T. Richard Shier
Executive Vice President
Banking & Investment Services
City National Bank

Richard Shier is executive vice president and director of City National Bank's Banking & Investment Services. He also serves as a member of the bank's Executive Committee.

Mr. Shier directs a team of specialists that develops, manages and delivers deposit, loan, online, card, international, private banking, wealth management and other products and services to City National clients and business lines in California, Nevada and New York.

Mr. Shier also is responsible for much of the corporation's operations, including Deposit and Payment Services, Brokerage and Trust Services, International Services, Central Operations, Operations Risk Management and Internal Communications Services. In addition, he oversees the bank's "Know Your Client" and anti-money laundering support processes as well as various other bank-wide functions.

His leadership teams have built a successful track record introducing highly competitive products and services that generate revenue growth, build new revenue streams, and significantly expand the bank's product base while enhancing client service. Their ongoing efforts to improve productivity have saved the bank millions of dollars in ongoing costs.

Before joining City National in 1998, Mr. Shier led senior management teams at Home Savings and First Interstate Bank. Previously, he worked at consulting firms and technology service companies during his 30-year career.

Mr. Shier is the immediate past board chairman of the Western Payments Alliance, one of the nation's largest regional payments associations, and is on the board of The Clearing House Payments Company, the leading private-sector payment system infrastructure for clearing and settling U.S. dollar payments.