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Gifford Combs

Mr. Combs is a Founding Partner, Managing Director and Portfolio Manager for Dalton Investments, and was a founding member of Dalton which was established in 1999. Mr. Combs has over 39 years of investment experience managing equity portfolios. Prior to joining Dalton, he managed equity portfolios for US and international institutions at Pacific Financial Research, a Beverly Hills-based money manager with assets in excess of US$15 billion. In 1994, he retired as partner to concentrate on managing a US investment partnership and in 1998 he began managing the portfolio for Pacific and General Investments.

Mr. Combs serves on the investment committees of the College of the Atlantic (Bar Harbor) and the Mt. Desert Land and Garden Preserve (Seal Harbor) as well as the committee for the Cambridge University “Dear World” Capital Campaign (Cambridge, United Kingdom).  Mr. Combs holds a M.Phil degree in Economics and Politics from Cambridge University and an AB degree from Harvard College.