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Dan Haar

October 17,

Ramani Ayer told the story Friday about how he was pitched on Greater Hartford 36 years ago, when he was looking to join The Hartford as a young executive.

"It's 90 miles from Boston and miles from New York," Ayer recalled hearing, in remarks to the MetroHartford Alliance.

"And I said, 'Something's got to change in this picture.'"

In more than a generation on the job, including a dozen years as CEO of The Hartford Financial Services Group, Ayer did change the picture — in the one way that matters most.

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He will retire at age 62 on Halloween after a harrowing year, able to see that his company — the Hartford region's company, as he put it — will survive. That was not a given six months ago when shares in the company were trading for less than $5, and the Hartford was seeking a federal bailout.

On Friday, the Alliance feted Ayer, a former chairman of the regional group, in honor of his years of service to the region.

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