Date:  November 6, 2007 
Contact:  Andy Frokjer
Title:  VP/Advertising and Communications Manager
Phone:  805/473-6885

Rabobank, N.A. Appoints Mike Bieza as Commercial Banking Regional Manager in Santa Barbara

SANTA BARBARA, CA – Mike Bieza has been appointed senior vice president and commercial banking regional manager at Rabobank, N.A., announced Jeff DeVine, regional president.

As regional manager, Bieza oversees commercial lending and business banking in Carpinteria, Santa Barbara, Goleta, and the Santa Ynez Valley.  His commercial banking team provides local companies and organizations with lines of credit, business loans, equipment loans and leasing, and state-of-the-art cash management.

Bieza is located at the Rabobank commercial banking center at 33 E. Carrillo Street in Santa Barbara and can be reached at (805) 879-9310.

A banker for 22 years, Bieza served as a senior relationship manager at Santa Barbara Bank & Trust for seven years and as a commercial banking officer at City Commerce Bank and Mid-State Bank in Santa Barbara.
Bieza earned a bachelor of science degree in business finance from California State University, Long Beach.

A long-time resident of Goleta, Bieza is a loan committee member with California Coastal Rural Development Corporation.  He is a youth soccer coach with AYSO and also coached with Dos Pueblos Little League, Page Youth Center, and the Boys and Girls Club.

Rabobank, N.A. is a California community bank that provides personalized service and a full array of quality products to individuals, businesses, commercial real estate developers and investors, and agricultural clients.  With 78 retail offices and 14 financial service centers, we serve the needs of communities from Sacramento to the Imperial Valley through local decision making and active community involvement by our employees.