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Mehlam
Bhiwandiwala
Chief Financial Officer
Canyonside
Mehlam H. Bhiwandiwala is a CFO and strategic finance leader with extensive experience driving growth, profitability, transformation, and enterprise value across SaaS, tech-enabled services, logistics, manufacturing, and direct-to-consumer businesses. His career spans founder-led, private equity-backed, public, and venture-backed companies, with a consistent focus on financial discipline, operational improvement, cash flow optimization, and scalable value creation. He has led finance, accounting, treasury, tax, RevOps, Sales Ops, compliance, and global operations teams, partnering closely with CEOs, boards, investors, lenders, and executive leadership teams through turnarounds, refinancings, acquisition integrations, and exit-readiness processes. Throughout his career, Mehlam has delivered measurable results including EBITDA improvement, margin expansion, revenue growth, working capital improvement, cost savings, faster close cycles, and enhanced visibility into customer, product, and service-line profitability. His areas of expertise include FP&A, board and investor reporting, M&A diligence and integration, pricing optimization, revenue operations, cash forecasting, ERP and CRM integration, process automation, finance transformation, and global team leadership. Known for combining strategic insight with hands-on execution, Mehlam brings a practical CFO’s perspective to conversations operational excellence, and the evolving role of technology and AI in business.
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24 June 2026 11:25 - 12:10
Panel - The CFO as enterprise value architect: Orchestrating capital, risk, and investor confidence
The CFO’s role has evolved far beyond reporting and controls. Today’s CFO is an enterprise value architect, responsible for balancing growth, risk, liquidity, and capital allocation while building confidence with investors, boards, and employees. As market volatility, higher capital costs, and AI-driven transformation reshape business, finance leaders are increasingly expected to guide strategic decision-making and value creation. This panel explores how CFOs deploy capital, measure enterprise value across different business models, and evaluate AI investments. Panelists emphasized that lasting value comes not only from financial performance, but also from governance, operational discipline, stakeholder trust, and effective transformation. Three key takeaways Capital allocation is critical: Value creation depends on disciplined investment decisions and managing tradeoffs between growth, risk, and return. AI is a transformation challenge: Success comes from clear objectives, measurement, governance, and adoption—not technology alone. Value goes beyond financials: Trust, operational effectiveness, and strong governance are often the biggest drivers of long-term enterprise value.