Our Team

Performing Equity is a Real Estate Development and Investment company based in Vancouver, Canada. With a portfolio of over 112 successful acquisitions and development projects throughout North America and Mexico, our team members are top-notch in their field.

Together, our unique combination of experienced real estate investment executives, seasoned developers, asset managers, and award-winning marketers have delivered consistent results on a huge range of projects, totalling in excess of $1B.

Performing Equity has been contracted to provide overall development, sales & marketing management of the Sotavento Luxury Residences.

Michael Drever, President and CEO of Performing Equity, is an experienced hospitality and franchising executive. He founded and built North America’s largest chain of cruise specialty travel agencies (and an online marketing platform) with over 160 retail agencies supporting 4500 travel agents.

His passion for real estate, the travel industry and Zihuatanejo led to his involvement with the Sotavento project. He is also the founder of Branch-Up Technologies, which supports the travel industry with leading edge marketing systems.

John Murphy, Director of Acquisitions, has significant experience and success in several areas, namely hospitality, travel, publishing and real estate. John’s entrepreneurial ability to identify value-add opportunities, to relentlessly execute predetermined marketing programs, while building lifelong relationships, has become something of a superpower.

John’s marketing systems and teams produced $1.2B in in-house developed/ converted and managed condominium sales to homeowners and investors.