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Mehlam
Bhiwandiwala
Chief Financial Officer
Growth Catalyst Group
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 11:10 - 11:55
Panel - The CFO as enterprise value architect: Orchestrating capital, risk, and investor confidence
The modern CFO is no longer just reporting performance to investors. They are actively shaping how the company is valued, how risk is priced, and how capital is deployed across the business. This panel focuses on how CFOs translate strategy into a credible value story across equity holders, lenders, rating agencies, and boards, while balancing growth investment with resilience. The discussion will get into capital allocation trade-offs, how macro risk and geopolitical exposure are being priced into strategy, and how CFOs maintain investor confidence during periods of transformation, M&A, or volatility. Expect a candid look at where value is created or quietly destroyed long before it shows up in reported numbers. Key takeaways: - Balancing growth investment vs capital preservation in uncertain markets - Aligning internal strategy with external investor expectations and market signals - Where capital strategy fails when risk is treated as a compliance exercise