Michael B. Schwab, founder and managing director of Big Sky Partners, is an active investment professional with more than two decades of hands-on experience in the venture capital space. He has mentored and invested in early-stage companies through every stage of growth and technology/product development.

Michael is a partner and lead investor at Meriwether Companies, a developer and operator of resort, residential and hospitality real estate. Michael’s role at Meriwether includes sourcing new development opportunities, overseeing action sports innovation, health & wellness programming, media, and fundraising. Current projects under development by Meriwether include Cabo Real Surf Club (Los Cabos, Mexico), Coral Mountain (Coachella Valley, California) and La Valle Coastal Club (Rancho Santa Fe, California). Beyond these North America-based projects, Meriwether is playing a supporting role in Michael’s development of Nihi in Rote, Indonesia.

Michael currently serves as a partner at Emergent Capital Partners, a global private equity firm focused on opportunistic real estate investing in growth markets, as well as a venture partner with Greenhouse Capital Partners, a health and sustainability-focused seed-stage venture fund. Additionally, Michael sits on the board of directors at TAE Technologies and Natural Selection Tour.