Greater Bay Bancorp to Attend Merrill Lynch Banking and Financial Services Conference

  
    
  
  
    
      Greater Bay Bancorp (Nasdaq:GBBK), a financial services holding 
      company, announced that James S. Westfall, Executive Vice President and 
      Chief Financial Officer, will participate in a conference sponsored by 
      Merrill Lynch on November 16, 2006 at 10:30 a.m. ET.
    
    
      The conference will be accessible live via the Internet during the 
      conference and for 14 days following the conference at http://www.veracast.com/webcasts/ml/banking06/99304372.cfm. 
      Persons interested in listening to the conference should go to the 
      website 15 minutes prior to the start of the conference to register as 
      it may be necessary to download audio software to hear the presentation.
    
    
      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 
      website, http://www.gbbk.com, or the 
      SEC’s website, http://www.sec.gov.
    
    
      About Greater Bay Bancorp
    
    
      Greater Bay Bancorp, a diversified financial services holding company, 
      provides community banking services in the greater San Francisco Bay 
      Area through the Greater Bay Bank, N.A. community banking organization, 
      including Bank of Petaluma, Coast Commercial Bank, Golden Gate Bank, 
      Mid-Peninsula Bank, Mt. Diablo National Bank, Peninsula Bank of 
      Commerce and Santa Clara Valley National Bank. Nationally, 
      Greater Bay Bancorp provides specialized leasing and loan services 
      through its specialty finance group, which includes Matsco, CAPCO and 
      Greater Bay Capital. ABD Insurance and Financial Services, the Company’s 
      insurance brokerage subsidiary, 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 website at http://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, 
      2005, and particularly the discussion of risk factors within such 
      documents.
    
  
Greater Bay Bancorp (Nasdaq:GBBK), a financial services holding
company, announced that James S. Westfall, Executive Vice President
and Chief Financial Officer, will participate in a conference
sponsored by Merrill Lynch on November 16, 2006 at 10:30 a.m. ET.

   The conference will be accessible live via the Internet during the
conference and for 14 days following the conference at
http://www.veracast.com/webcasts/ml/banking06/99304372.cfm. Persons
interested in listening to the conference should go to the website 15
minutes prior to the start of the conference to register as it may be
necessary to download audio software to hear the presentation.

   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 website,
http://www.gbbk.com, or the SEC's website, http://www.sec.gov.

   About Greater Bay Bancorp

   Greater Bay Bancorp, a diversified financial services holding
company, provides community banking services in the greater San
Francisco Bay Area through the Greater Bay Bank, N.A. community
banking organization, including Bank of Petaluma, Coast Commercial
Bank, Golden Gate Bank, Mid-Peninsula Bank, Mt. Diablo National Bank,
Peninsula Bank of Commerce and Santa Clara Valley National Bank.
Nationally, Greater Bay Bancorp provides specialized leasing and loan
services through its specialty finance group, which includes Matsco,
CAPCO and Greater Bay Capital. ABD Insurance and Financial Services,
the Company's insurance brokerage subsidiary, 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 website at http://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, 2005, and particularly the discussion of risk factors
within such documents.