Main Street Banks Names David Brooks As Chief Financial Officer

Main Street Banks Names David Brooks As Chief Financial Officer



ATLANTA, May 6  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Main Street Banks, Inc. (NASDAQ:MSBK)
announced today that David W. Brooks II is joining the company as executive
vice president and chief financial officer.  Brooks, 48, brings over twenty
years of executive banking experience in finance and treasury to the position. 
An 18 year veteran of Wachovia Corporation, Brooks most recently served as
Senior Vice President and Group Executive responsible for strategic planning,
treasury policy and research, asset pricing, treasury risk management and Basel
capital implementation in Charlotte, NC.  His career with the former Wachovia
Corporation also included responsibilities for treasury, funds transfer
pricing, interest rate risk management, earnings forecasting, capital planning
and balance sheet structure.

As chief financial officer, Brooks will be directly responsible for all of the
company's financial operations including accounting, treasury and finance. As
part of the company's senior management team, he will also provide direction to
and influence over strategic direction and tactical implementation of all of
the company's operations.  Brooks will also have responsibility for Main
Street's investor relations function.

"We are excited to have David Brooks joining us at Main Street," said chief
executive officer Samuel B. Hay III.  "He has skills and experience in all
areas of banking finance and treasury, combined with a particular interest in
and affinity for balance sheet strategy and interest rate risk management. We
are also fortunate that David brings a unique mix of size perspectives in
banking, having worked for a small banking company early in his career."

Prior to Wachovia, Brooks served for three years at First Union National Bank
in Charlotte, NC where he was responsible for several financial and analytical
functions including strategic planning, interest rate risk, pricing and
forecasting.  He also served for three years at Northwestern Bank in North
Wilkesboro, NC with responsibilities in forecasting, interest rate risk
management and branch operations.

Brooks earned his bachelor's degree in Economics and his MBA in Finance from
Appalachian State University in Boone, NC.  He has served as a chairman of the
BAI Treasury Commission, is a longstanding member of the North American Asset
Liability Management Association and is a frequent speaker at national and
regional conferences on banking strategy, funds management and asset/liability
management.

About Main Street

Main Street Banks, Inc., a $2.3 billion asset, community-banking organization
based in metropolitan Atlanta, provides a broad range of banking, brokerage,
insurance, and mortgage products and services through its 23 banking centers
located in eighteen of Georgia's fastest growing communities. Main Street is
the largest community banking organization in the Atlanta metropolitan area. 

DATASOURCE: Main Street Banks, Inc.



CONTACT:  Samuel B. Hay III, President and Chief Executive Officer of

Main Street Banks, Inc., [phone]



Web site:  http://www.mainstreetbank.com/ 

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