Balaji Prasad Natarajan

Group Chief Financial Officer,
Binladin International Holding Group

Balaji Prasad – is the Group CFO of Binladin International Holding Group, which is one of the region’s largest diversified conglomerate consisting of 500+ companies and is also the parent company of the Construction giant SBG. He joined the group in the year 2020 and his key focus has been shaping and driving the group’s turnaround strategy. Prior to joining BIHG, he was the Group CFO of Abu Dhabi listed developer Manazel PJSC for last 5 years. Previously he has held leadership positions in some of the blue chip companies like TYCO, Reliance Industries, Pentair, Sobha Group, Suhail Bahwan Group as well as IndianOil.

Out of his career experience of over 25 years, he has worked in the region almost 2 decades and brings with him extensive experience spanning across Trade Finance deal Structuring, Debt Restructuring, Corporate Turnaround, Business Transformation and complex fund raising, across diverse industries such as Contracting, Real Estate, Manufacturing, Trading and Oil & Gas.

He is Fellow Chartered Accountant from India and CPA from US. He holds Bachelor’s degree in Applied Sciences from Coimbatore Institute of Technology, India. He is also trained in FX, Hedging & Derivatives by Euro Money London.

For his distinguished work, he has been awarded the prestigious Global CFO excellence award for Best Real Estate CFO (UAE) and Best Corporate Turnaround CFO (MiddleEast).

He is also a regular speaker in several Regional /Global financial and restructuring conferences.