Pacific Mercantile Bancorp to Announce and to Hold Conference Call to Discuss Third Quarter 2008 Financial Results on November 7, 2008

COSTA MESA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pacific Mercantile Bancorp (NASDAQ: PMBC), the parent holding company of Pacific Mercantile Bank, an FDIC insured, California state-chartered commercial bank, will release its third quarter financial results on November 7, 2008 before the opening of the market.

Pacific Mercantile Bancorp also will host a conference call to discuss those results, after market close, on Friday, November 7^th, at 5:00 P.M. Eastern and 2:00 P.M. Pacific time. Interested parties may participate in the conference call by dialing 1-800-860-2442, five to ten minutes prior to the initiation of the call. A replay of the conference call will be available for 10 days after the completion of the conference call by dialing 1-877-344-7529 and entering access code 425234. A replay of the conference call will be available and will be archived until December 31, 2008, on the Pacific Mercantile Bank website http://www.pmbank.com under Investor Relations: Earnings Conference Calls.

About Pacific Mercantile Bancorp

Pacific Mercantile Bancorp is the parent holding company of Pacific Mercantile Bank, which opened for business March 1, 1999. The Bank is an FDIC insured, California state-chartered bank and a member of the Federal Reserve System and provides a wide range of commercial banking services to businesses, business professionals and individual clients through its combination of traditional banking financial centers and comprehensive, sophisticated electronic banking services.

The Bank operates a total of eight financial centers in Southern California, four of which are located in Orange County, two of which are located in Los Angeles County, one of which is located in San Diego County and the other of which is located in the Inland Empire in San Bernardino County. The four Orange County financial centers are located, respectively, in the cities of Newport Beach, Costa Mesa (which is visible from the 405 and 73 Freeways), La Habra and San Juan Capistrano (which is our South County financial center that is visible from the Interstate 5 Freeway). Our two financial centers in Los Angeles County are located, respectively, in the cities of Beverly Hills and Long Beach. Our San Diego financial center is located in La Jolla and our Inland Empire financial center is located in the city of Ontario, visible from the Interstate 10 Freeway. In addition to the Bank's physical locations, it offers comprehensive banking services over its Internet Bank, which is accessible 24/7 worldwide at www.pmbank.com.