Mike Zabik

Mike Zabik is a Partner at RedBird Capital and leads its Financial Services investment business.
In his current role, Mike leads all sourcing, execution, company building and monetization initiatives across the FIG portfolio.
Since 2014, the Firm has invested over $700 million in Financial Services investments across six investments and completed 12 add-on acquisitions.
Mike is responsible for the Firm’s investments in Aquarian Holdings, Vida Capital, Main Street Advisors and Grafine Partners, and is actively involved in OneTeam Partners, Skydance Media and Zenith Shipping.
Mike also previously led RedBird’s investment in Constellation Affiliated Partners, an MGA platform, sold to Truist in July 2021.
In addition to his active investment responsibilities, Mike leads the Portfolio Financing Team, which has structured the portfolio company financings across 35 platform investments and over 80 add-on acquisitions.
Prior to joining RedBird, Mike was a Vice President at Ares Management LLC for four years, and before that was an Associate at Kelso & Company.
Mike began his career at Deutsche Bank in the firm’s Leveraged Finance and Private Debt businesses.
Philanthropically, Mike is a member of Indiana University’s Investment Banking Network Advisory Council.
Mike holds a B.S.
in Finance and Accounting from Indiana University