Our Team

Michael is an accomplished financial services executive with over 35 years of experience in the financial services and wealth management industry, having worked on numerous Pre-IPO capital raises, IPOs and on market placements with a network of high net worth and institutional investors in Australia and overseas.

Michael has significant r

Michael is an accomplished financial services executive with over 35 years of experience in the financial services and wealth management industry, having worked on numerous Pre-IPO capital raises, IPOs and on market placements with a network of high net worth and institutional investors in Australia and overseas.

Michael has significant risk management and regulatory compliance experience and extensive working knowledge and understanding of the Australian financial services regulatory framework.

Sean Sandilands has been working in the Australian financial markets for 25 years. He started out at Merrill Lynch in Equity Derivatives dealing with institutions and HNW investors in a supporting role then untimely in trading and execution.

Sean then  moved to ABN Amro Morgan as an Equity Derivatives adviser for several years dealing with

Sean Sandilands has been working in the Australian financial markets for 25 years. He started out at Merrill Lynch in Equity Derivatives dealing with institutions and HNW investors in a supporting role then untimely in trading and execution.

Sean then  moved to ABN Amro Morgan as an Equity Derivatives adviser for several years dealing with HNW investors and then worked at several firms trying to find the right balance between trading and corporate advisory which was Pulse Markets where he worked for the last 4 years and in 2022 listed one of the most successful IPO’s on the ASX for 2022 which was Southern Cross Gold – SXG.ASX.

Eventually he saw the merit in getting his own AFSL and set up STK Markets which focuses on Equity Capital Markets and Sales Trading. He has established a team at STK that have been with him for the last 10 years that focus on getting results for his investors and himself.

Every deal or investment that STK will recommend, Sean through his various entities will be one of the largest investors so he has skin in the game like his investors.

Last year he raised over $80m for around 8 companies and two of these investments which took up most of those funds have returned over 400% so far. This is due to the back ground work involved in finding the right deal and finding the right management team who is also invested in the company with personal money. 

Skin in the game is our favourite saying is one of the many rules we look for when investing in a company.

Together with his analytical team we believe STK is well positioned to find our investors the right investments with minimised risk to get the returns in the Small Cap space in the market.

  Michael is the Managing Director of Pigram Capital Pty Limited which is a Corporate Authorised Representative of STK Markets Pty Limited AFSL No. 001310607 and was previously a Licensed Security Dealer with financial markets companies, Bain & Co, Potter Warburg and BBL Mullens.

He has extensive experience in banking and financial markets

  Michael is the Managing Director of Pigram Capital Pty Limited which is a Corporate Authorised Representative of STK Markets Pty Limited AFSL No. 001310607 and was previously a Licensed Security Dealer with financial markets companies, Bain & Co, Potter Warburg and BBL Mullens.

He has extensive experience in banking and financial markets having been engaged in the Bain & Co property finance team and participating in numerous corporate raisings in addition to providing wider investment advice on listed and unlisted securities, margin trading, due diligence and funding of films/stage productions.

He was previously the Managing Director of a local Newspaper and has held Real Estate Licence  during the past 32 years and been a Justice of the Peace for 48 years.

He has completed qualifications in Accountancy and Real Estate.