Speakers

Angus Sedgwick is a financial services professional with over 27 years of experience in the insurance, financial advice and funds management industries. Prior to his appointment as the CEO of OptiPay, Angus was the co-founder of PolicyLink, which over a 15 year period became the largest broker in the Traded Endowment Policy market internationally. After 3 years as Head of Marketing for PolicyLink Australia, Angus was appointed as the Managing Director of PolicyLink South Africa. From a greenfields operation, PolicyLink South Africa employed 60 people with annualised turnover of over $45 million. During his 10 years in South Africa, Angus oversaw the development of an online technology platform that allowed PolicyLink to evaluate, price and administer over 58,000 individual policy contracts.

Angus co-founded OptiPay in 2014 first as a peer-to-peer funding platform and then subsequently (in 2017) transformed the business into an on-balance sheet cash flow lender to SME’s, having secured private equity investors as well as institutional funding for the growth of the loan book. OptiPay has since funded over $1.5 billion and growing.