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

Russell Goldsmith
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
City National Bank

President and Chief Executive Officer
City National Corporation

As chairman and chief executive officer of City National Bank, Russell Goldsmith leads a financial institution of $15.9 billion in total assets. Additionally, he serves as president and chief executive officer of its publicly held parent company, City National Corporation, which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (CYN). He has been a director of both the bank and its parent company since 1978.

Since Mr. Goldsmith became CEO in October 1995, City National’s assets and earnings have increased nearly 400 percent, while its total shareholder return has grown at a compound annual rate of 15 percent. It now has 62 banking offices, including 15 full-service regional centers, in Southern California, the San Francisco Bay Area, Nevada and New York City. Additionally, the company and its eight majority-owned investment affiliates manage or administer almost $56 billion in client assets, including nearly $36 billion under direct management.

In 2002, in its annual survey of CEO pay and performance, Forbes magazine ranked Mr. Goldsmith among the 10 best chief executive officers in America.

Mr. Goldsmith serves on the Federal Reserve Board’s 12-member Federal Advisory Council, representing the Twelfth Federal Reserve District. He also chairs the Los Angeles Economy & Jobs Committee and serves on the boards of directors of the Financial Services Roundtable and the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles. He is a trustee of the Harvard-Westlake School and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

From 1986 until its sale in 1994, Mr. Goldsmith was chairman of the board and chief executive officer of publicly-held Republic Pictures Corporation, a leading global independent entertainment production and distribution company. He also was vice chairman of the San Diego Padres Baseball Club from 1990 to 1994. He previously served as chief operating officer and a director of Lorimar, Inc., a public entertainment company, from 1983 through 1985.

Mr. Goldsmith began his professional career as an attorney, practicing at Irell & Manella, and later co-founded his own law firm, Sanders, Barnet & Goldsmith.

He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.