Mr. Persky is a Founding Partner of Dalton Investments. Mr. Persky  has more than 41 years of experience in the investment management industry. He received his credit training at Citibank, where he was a senior credit officer. He then joined Salomon Brothers, where he traded high yield and international fixed income securities in New York and Tokyo. Prior to co-founding Dalton, he was a Vice President at Payden & Rygel, a Los Angeles based investment adviser, where he managed institutional fixed income portfolios.

Mr. Persky holds an AB in Asian Studies from Harvard College. He is a CFA charterholder and a member of the CFA Society of Los Angeles and the CFA Institute.  He authored a chapter in “Credit Derivative Strategies,” published by Bloomberg Press in 2007.