‘Inclusive’ chamber of commerce welcomes new chairwoman
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PRITI Mehta-Shah has become another in a long line of strong women chairs of the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce.
But her year-long term, which began Tuesday at the chamber’s annual meeting, will coincide with the first gender-balanced board in the chamber’s 140 year history.
“It is another example of how the chamber is inclusive,” said Mehta-Shah.
The managing partner of 49-97 Capital Partners Inc., a boutique corporate finance firm, has been a chamber member since she graduated as an accountant in 1987.
While the chamber of commerce might not be an obvious bastion of wheeling and dealing corporate finance people, Mehta-Shah said she was drawn in by the energy of the organization from the first time she attended a chamber event.
She said the financial community loves the chamber.
“We like economic growth and that’s something the chamber supports,” she said. “It works to bring in new business, create jobs and create larger businesses.”
Her work at 49-97 involves assisting clients with mergers and acquisitions, business valuations and placing equity and debt financing.
Coincidentally, the chamber has said it wants to become more involved with issues around access to capital as part of a new strategic approach it just announced. Mehta-Shah said that sort of activity is right in her wheel house.
“We assist lots of clients with strategic growth plans at 49-97 and also startups,” she said. “One of the things we are seeing with emerging companies is a lack of capital. I’m looking forward to working with the chamber to look at new ways to connect small businesses with financial resources.”
Mehta-Shah is a former partner at BDO Canada LLP, in charge of corporate finance for Western Canada, so she knows better than most the pressure points that those financing issues can create.
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