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Wells Fargo Names James Kimball Head of Commercial Banking for California's North Coast

Kimball is a 25-year financial services veteran whose career has been focused on commercial banking in Northern California and the Western U.S. Most recently, he served as a regional sales manager for Wells Fargo Commercial Banking, overseeing business development in the Pacific Northwest, Northern California, and part of Central California. Before that, Kimball led Wachovia's wholesale banking expansion into Northern California and Nevada. Earlier, he worked 24 years for Bank of America in commercial banking and business development leadership positions, chiefly in Northern California and the West.

In his new role, Kimball will be responsible for a team of 17 Commercial Banking managers who serve middle-market companies in a territory that stretches from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Oregon border. A key sector served by Kimball's team is California's wine industry.

A lifetime resident of Sonoma County, Kimball has been an active community leader in Northern California and is past president of the North Bay World Trade Association and vice president of the Petaluma Educational Foundation. He earned a bachelor's degree in finance and an M.B.A from California State University, Sacramento. He and his wife, Sharon, and their son, Sean, and daughter, Kayla, live in Petaluma, where Kimball was born and raised.

Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.2 trillion in assets, providing banking, insurance, investments, mortgage and consumer finance through more than 10,000 stores and 12,000 ATMs and the internet (wellsfargo.com) across North America and internationally. Wells Fargo Commercial Banking spans 95 offices in 41 states.

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Wells Fargo & Company
Gabriel Boehmer, 503-886-4186 (Media)