A 36-year veteran of the financial services industry, Eric Van Standifer is founder and CEO of Blaylock Van, LLC (BV), one of the nation’s premier black wealth management firms. BV provides a diversified platform of financial services including global electronic equity and fixed-income sales and trading, quantitative and qualitative research, and a capital markets platform that services some of the largest corporations and governments worldwide.

Blaylock Van Showcases Excellence and Diversity

Eric Standifer had worked as a broker on Wall Street for a number of years when he decided to strike out on his own. When Standifer founded Robert Van Securities in 1991, he almost certainly was aware of the long odds a minority firm in the finance industry would face but saw an opportunity to do something special and took a leap of faith.
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Mr. Standifer originally founded Robert Van Securities, BV’s predecessor, in 1991. Robert Van Securities was highly regarded for its technologically driven trading capabilities and, in 2007, the firm merged with Blaylock & Co., then one of Wall Street’s most successful minority-owned investment banks renowned for its capital markets franchise. The firm is now one of Wall Street’s largest minority- owned boutique investment banks and one of the most diversified.