Mr. Persky has 18 years of public and private company operating experience, with extensive background in turnarounds.

Most recently, Mr. Persky was an executive at the IBM company where he was responsible for integrating the operations of Productivity Solutions, Inc, into IBM's Retail Store Solutions division. Mr. Persky was President and COO of Productivity Solutions, Inc., a venture backed company offering consumer self checkout solutions, until it was sold to IBM in 2003. Prior to Productivity Solutions, Mr. Persky was President, COO and board member of ERS, Inc. Mr. Persky has also served as executive and Vice President of Marketing for Executone Information Systems, a public company that was acquired by Inter-Tel, and in a variety of managerial positions with VMX, Inc. a voice processing company that was acquired by Octel Communications, and Octel, which itself was ultimately acquired by Lucent Technologies.

Mr. Persky graduated from Brown University with a BA in Economics and Organizational Behavior and Management and received his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

persky@alerionpartners.com