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Shaun Johnson

Co-Founder

Shaun Johnson is a co-founder of Splendid. He advised Banjo Loans, an Australian non-bank lender to small and medium businesses, on marketing, strategy and growth from 2015 to 2017. Earlier, he was Commercial Director at the e-commerce payments platform Ukash in London, and set up the Australian and New Zealand business for Payzone's mobile payments platform, after starting his career as a strategy consultant at Accenture working in banking. He also founded Switchwise, an independent energy comparison service that matched customers with the energy plans best suited to their needs, later acquired by Computershare. Splendid applies the same idea of independent, personalised matching to business finance.

Bhavi Chadha

Co-Founder and Head Broker

Bhavi Chadha is co-founder of Splendid and its head broker, leading the broking team. He spent more than 10 years at Banjo Loans, an Australian non-bank lender to small and medium businesses, joining as employee number four in 2014. At Banjo he led products and digital marketing, then marketing for almost seven years, and was General Manager of Strategic Growth on the leadership team until 2025. That inside view of how a non-bank lender assesses deals shapes how Splendid's brokers work, and he specialises in working capital and asset and equipment finance.