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.