PRESS RELEASE Of interest to editors and journalists covering: Business/Finance, Banking Industry, Texas Business News Capital Bank Launches a 'New Way' of Banking HOUSTON, TX - September 24, 2004 /Send2Press Newswire/ -- Capital Bank (www.capitalbanktx.com) announced today that: F. Wayne Walker has been appointed as the Executive Vice President and CFO of Capital Bank. Wayne has been in the banking industry since 1977 and joined Capital Bank in September of 1998. Prior to his new role, Wayne served as the Senior Vice President & Cashier. Debbie Timmons has been appointed to Senior Vice President, Senior Operations Officer and Cashier of Capital Bank. Debbie has been in banking since 1970 prior to joining Capital Bank in November of 2003. In this role, Debbie will continue to serve as the liaison between the employees and management as she adds additional training and support to the staff through continuing education and enforcing a "new way" of banking. Ken E. Unfried has been appointed as Senior Vice President Capital Bank and Branch President of the Pasadena office. Ken has Over 27 years in banking, originating with the former First Pasadena State Bank. His Banking experience includes retail bank management, investments, consumer lending and commercial lending. Lori Moon has joined Capital Bank as The Branch Manager for Pasadena. Lori comes to Capital Bank with over 20 years of banking experience and is responsible for all facets of Capital Bank’s Pasadena operations. Lori adds a great wealth of knowledge and experience to our company. "We are very excited to have talent like that of Ken, Lori, Wayne and Debbie working with our team and further expanding our presence," said Paul Maaz, President and CEO of Capital Bank. "We look forward to their continuing contributions to existing client relationships as well as the opportunities that will arise as they introduce new clients to the breadth of expertise available to them from Capital Bank. Capital Bank promotes personal banking in a present culture where many financial institutions have lost that friendly, neighbor to neighbor bank atmosphere. Capital Bank is a neighborhood bank and wants to be part of and contribute to the neighborhoods serviced by each location. Our staff is like a family and we are all neighbors in the neighborhoods we serve." Capital Bank has 3 locations, Houston, Pearland and Pasadena. For more information you can visit their website at http://www.capitalbanktx.com. Media Contact: Scott Black of Resource Marketing Solutions for Capital Bank +1-281-217-3410 scottb@rmshouston.com # # # [ Source of news = Capital Bank, Texas ] Ref: http://www.send2press.com/2archive/2004/pr04-092402-capital.txt http://www.send2press.com/2archivePDF/pr04-092402-capital.pdf ----------------------------------------------------------------- *IMPORTANT NOTE TO MEDIA: to reach the organization releasing this news, please contact: scottb@rmshouston.com (media only) If used for publication, please send specimen copy. ----------------------------------------------------------------- S2P-NB / 0C / TX / HOUSTON, Texas / U.S. English Copr. (c) 2004 Send2Press Newswire. This release was issued on behalf of the above organization, who is solely responsible for accuracy of content, by Send2Press(TM), a unit of Neotrope(R). http://www.Send2Press.com [www.TexasNetwire.com] references: ----------- bank, banking, Houston, Pasadena, Pearland, Texas