Tarik Dalton

Tarik Dalton

Managing Director
Goldman Sachs

Tarik Dalton currently serves as a Managing Director head of Leveraged Finance Research at Goldman Sachs.  Tarik leads a team of analysts as part of the HY and Distressed trading team.Prior to Goldman Sachs, Tarik was a Managing Director and Head of Business Development at Silverback Asset Management, an Alternative Credit Manager in Chapel Hill, NC.  He was responsible for all aspects of business development and investor relations. In addition, Tarik served on Silverback's Management Committee.

Before joining Silverback in 2019, Mr. Dalton was the founder of Price Cameron Woods, providing advisory services to alternative credit managers.

From 2012 to 2018 Tarik served as Senior Advisor to the CIO and Director of Multi-Strategy investments at the North Carolina Department of the Treasury.  In this capacity, Mr. Dalton had direct responsibility for an approximately $3B portfolio of diverse alternative investments ranging including but not limited to credit, volatility, systematic and discretionary macro. Tarik served as one of the 4 members of the $100B Pension’s internal investment committee as well as on the asset and liability steering committee.

From 2005-2012, Mr. Dalton was a Director at Credit Suisse in the Leveraged Finance Group where he was a credit analyst performing in-depth fundamental analysis on stressed and distressed corporate credits with a focus on autos and industrials, lodging, leisure and gaming.

Mr. Dalton began his career as a consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers.  Mr. Dalton holds a bachelor of arts in Economics-Philosophy from Columbia University in the City of New York and a Masters of Business Administration from The Kenan-Flagler Business School of the University of North Carolina.