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"Natalie is a proven leader and has demonstrated her unique ability to creatively structure loans to builders," said Tim Boothe, Executive Vice President and Chief Lending Officer of Bridge Bank. "Along with her crew of top-tier construction lenders and project managers, Natalie provides top quality service to the Bank's growing base of developer clients."

Ms. Taaffe joined Bridge Bank in May 2001 as Senior Vice President and Manager of the Bank's Construction Loan Group. Arriving just two weeks prior to the new bank's opening, Ms. Taaffe's job was to build the Construction Loan Group from scratch. From that beginning, Bridge Bank's construction portfolio now totals over $100 million of outstanding construction and land development loans. As an Executive Vice President, Ms. Taaffe's responsibilities will be expanded to include oversight of the risk management activities within the Construction Loan Division and coordinating the Bank's overall expansion and sales efforts to the construction sector.

"I look forward to continuing the expansion of Bridge Bank's construction lending activities," said Ms. Taaffe. "The Bank's unique service-based approach to construction lending and banking has been well received in the Bay Area real estate markets."

Bridge Bank's Construction Loan Division provides a variety of credit products including loans for land acquisition and development, owner-builder and speculative single-family residential construction, commercial property acquisition, building, build-to-suit, remodeling, and multi-family dwelling construction.

Concurrent with Ms. Taaffe's promotion, Bridge Bank also announced the opening of a construction loan production office in Redwood City to serve the Mid-Peninsula and San Francisco construction markets. Veteran construction lender Mark Schoenstein, previously with Bay Area Bank, will manage this new office.

Prior to joining Bridge Bank, Ms. Taaffe was a Vice President and Construction Loan Group Manger with the Bank of Los Altos where she tripled both the bank's construction portfolio and total construction loans outstanding over a four-year period. Before Foothill Bank, Ms. Taaffe spent two years with The Pacific Bank in Burlingame (formerly Burlingame Bank & Trust), where she served as that bank's Construction Loan Group Manager and Credit Administrator. In addition, Ms. Taaffe was a voting member of the Directors' and Officers' Loan Committees and Chair of the bank's Special Assets Committee.

From 1992 to 1996, Ms. Taaffe was employed as a Construction Loan Officer at Cupertino National Bank in Cupertino. In that position, she was responsible for origination and monitoring of the bank's real estate construction loans. Between 1987 and 1992, Ms. Taaffe was the Note Department Manager at Cupertino National Bank.

Bridge Bank, N.A., headquartered in Silicon Valley, now has a presence in ten business markets throughout California. In addition to its newly established Redwood City construction loan production office, the Bank operates full-service commercial banking offices in San Jose and Palo Alto, a commercial loan production office in the East Bay, the Bridge Capital Finance loan production office in Santa Clara - offering structured, asset-based, and invoice based loans, a Small Business Administration loan production office in Sacramento, and four Small Business Administration loan sales representatives in the Fresno, Bakersfield, Orange County, and San Diego business markets.

About Bridge Capital Holdings

Bridge Capital Holdings is the holding company for Bridge Bank, National Association. Bridge Capital Holdings was formed on October 1, 2004 and is listed on The NASDAQ Stock Market under the trading symbol BBNK. Visit Bridge Capital Holdings on the web at www.bridgecapitalholdings.com.

About Bridge Bank, N.A.

Bridge Bank, N.A. Bridge Bank, N.A. is Silicon Valley's full-service professional business bank. The bank is dedicated to meeting the financial needs of small and middle market, and emerging technology businesses in the Silicon Valley, Palo Alto, San Ramon-Pleasanton, Sacramento, San Diego, Bakersfield, Fresno, and Orange County business communities. Bridge Bank provides its clients with a comprehensive package of business banking solutions delivered through experienced, professional bankers. Visit Bridge Bank on the web at www.bridgebank.com.

Certain matters discussed in this press release constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, and are subject to the safe harbors created by that Act.  Forward-looking statements describe future plans, strategies, and expectations, and are based on currently available information, expectations, assumptions, projections, and management's judgment about the Bank, the banking industry and general economic conditions.  These forward looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause the actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed, suggested or implied by the forward looking statements.

These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: (1) competitive pressures in the banking industry; (2) changes in interest rate environment; (3) general economic conditions, nationally, regionally, and in operating markets; (4) changes in the regulatory environment; (5) changes in business conditions and inflation; (6) changes in securities markets; (7) future credit loss experience; (8) the ability to satisfy requirements related to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other regulation on internal control; (9) civil disturbances or terrorist threats or acts, or apprehension about the possible future occurrences of acts of this type; and (10) the involvement of the United States in war or other hostilities.

The reader should refer to the more complete discussion of such risks in Bridge Capital Holdings  reports on Forms 10-K and 10-Q on file with the SEC.

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