Dan Somers’ new firm

Now he’s returning to a very different Street - and a very different kind of investment bank. Somers, former CEO of the country’s biggest cable company, AT&T Broadband, has become vice chairman of minority-owned investment banking boutique Blaylock & Partners.

Now he’s returning to a very different Street - and a very different kind of investment bank. Somers, former CEO of the country’s biggest cable company, AT&T Broadband, has become vice chairman of minority-owned investment banking boutique Blaylock & Partners. The 54-year-old corporate finance veteran hopes his two-decade stint as an investment banking client will help Blaylock increase its market share and its status. Somers, who left AT&T Broadband in October, before AT&T Corp. finalized a $47 billion deal to sell it to Comcast, says he was particularly attracted to Blaylock’s minority roots. “I’d like to see minority-run businesses blossom more in the next ten years than they have in the last 20,” he says. “Maybe it’s my way of giving something back.”

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