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Michael Schwab, founder and
managing partner of Big Sky Partners, is an active
and engaged investment professional with nearly
a decade of experience investing in, and mentoring,
early stage companies through every stage of company
growth and development. Since founding Big Sky
in 1999, Mr. Schwab has remained disciplined in
his investment approach across all 22 portfolio
company investments, highlighting the firm's primary
focus on people first; on sharing aligned interests
with early stage entrepreneurs and dedicated management
teams. This approach has remained steady throughout
the technology boom, bust and recent cycle of
re-emergent opportunities within Silicon Valley,
and has proven invaluable time and again across
a range of industry segments and sectors.
To date, Big Sky Partners maintains
a broad portfolio of high tech, real estate, financial,
alternative energy and premium service sector
capital investments, and seeks to further broaden
its reach into clean technology, real estate development
and other emerging high growth startup opportunities.
Mr. Schwab currently sits on the Board of Directors
of MongoNet and Solaicx Inc., and was a founding
Board Member of ProcessClaims, an insurance claims
software startup that represents his most recent
liquidity event, returning a significant multiple
on invested capital for all of the company's early
stage investors. Mr. Schwab's latest investment
in sales software startup, InsideView, represents
his further commitment to investing at the earliest
stages of company formation, and he will soon
join as venture partner and member of the investment
committee of Greenhouse Capital, a seed stage
fund with a primary focus on alternative energy
and clean technology startups. In addition, Mr.
Schwab is an active member of several charitable
organizations and family-related foundations.
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