Amsterdam · Product Leader · B2B

Veena
Krishnamurthy

I help B2B scale-ups figure out what to build, why it matters, and how to make it stick — across logistics, travel, and streaming.

9+ yrs in product
3 industries
3 continents
Oxford MBA
Veena Krishnamurthy

Where I've built.

From freight marketplaces to sports streaming — always on the commercial side of B2B.

Principal PM · sennder Current
Jun 2025 – PresentAmsterdam
Leading the commercial product portfolio — the revenue engine of a European freight marketplace, influencing ~80% of company revenue
Group PM · sennder
Feb 2023 – Jun 2025Amsterdam
Scaled carrier onboarding and quality — migrated 12,000 carriers post-acquisition with zero revenue loss
🏆 sennUP Leadership Program · Top 1%
Senior PM · Navan
Apr 2021 – Jan 2023Amsterdam
Scaled the global travel admin platform to 8,000+ enterprise & mid-market customers — ~80% adoption
🏆 TripActions Excellence Club · Top 1%
Senior PM · DAZN
Mar 2018 – Jul 2019London
Launched live sports streaming on 44M+ connected TV devices across Japan, Germany, the US, and Canada
Senior PM · MediaMelon
2020 – 2021Bengaluru
Redesigned OTT video analytics platform to win new enterprise customers — generated ~$360k in ARR
Founder · Mentzo
2019 – 2020Bengaluru
Built an EdTech mentorship platform from zero — concept, prototype, GTM
Earlier Quality Planning Lead · LG Soft India Senior Project Engineer · Wipro Telecom Engineering background

Projects I'm proud of.

A handful of the initiatives that shaped how I think about product.

Navan
Admin Platform
🏆 TripActions Excellence Club · Top 1%
Enterprise B2B 1 → 10 Travel Tech
The Problem

Navan's travel admin platform existed but hadn't been built for enterprise scale. I joined coming out of COVID — when the business was 95% down and aggressively ramping back up. As enterprise travel rebounded, the gap between what large customers needed and what the platform could do became the biggest blocker to growth.

The Approach

Took an early-stage admin product and scaled it into a full enterprise platform — policy configuration, spend visibility, approval workflows, and reporting in one surface. Ran deep discovery with travel managers across verticals to prioritise the highest-friction jobs first.

The Outcome
8,000+ enterprise & mid-market customers
~80% admin adoption
60% reduction in admin workload
80% lift in policy compliance
$XX M in ARR
Navan
Reed & Mackay VIP Solution Integration
M&A Integration 0 → 1 for Navan Travel Tech
The Problem

TripActions acquired Reed & Mackay — a ~$250M acquisition — a business built almost entirely on white-glove VIP concierge travel for executive programmes. The challenge: integrate a deeply human, high-touch service into a self-serve SaaS platform without destroying what clients had paid a premium for.

The Approach

Led the end-to-end product integration post-acquisition — mapping where self-serve was appropriate and where concierge handoffs were non-negotiable. Defined the combined product surface for executive traveller programmes, working across ops, commercial, and engineering on both sides to make the seams invisible to VIP users.

The Outcome
$40M+ in new booking potential unlocked for executive traveller programmes
DAZN
Comcast Xfinity X1 · US Market Launch
Platform Launch Distribution GTM Subscriber Growth
The Problem

DAZN was launching in the US — a new market — and needed to reach pay-TV audiences at scale, not just app store downloads. Without a presence in the dominant US cable infrastructure, DAZN would miss the highest-intent sports viewers who didn't seek out streaming apps themselves.

The Approach

Led the product and GTM workstream to land the DAZN TV app on Comcast Xfinity X1 — the US's largest pay-TV platform. Coordinated across a 9-engineer delivery team, commercial, legal, and Comcast's integration team to ship the integration, unlock premium merchandising placement within the Xfinity ecosystem, and contribute to a successful US launch.

The Outcome
13M Comcast Xfinity X1 devices activated
£16M+ estimated ARR across OEM/MSO distribution
US GTM materially contributed to US net adds & revenue
sennder
Supplier Data Platform
0 → 1 Data Freight
The Problem

Carrier data across sennder's European freight network was fragmented across systems — no single source of truth for capabilities, compliance, or performance. Core ops workflows lived in Salesforce, limiting data quality and making self-serve onboarding, matching, and pricing slower and less reliable than the business needed.

The Approach

Modernised the supplier data layer end-to-end — defining the data models, carrier workflows, and system of record. Launched the Carrier Profile Service as the canonical source of carrier attributes, and built an internal Operator Platform to move core workflows off Salesforce. Delivered APIs that downstream commercial and ops teams could actually act on.

The Outcome
30% YoY lift in self-serve carrier onboarding
€300k+ annual CAC savings
Single source of truth replacing fragmented Salesforce workflows
sennder
C.H. Robinson European Surface Transportation Migration
M&A Integration Logistics
The Problem

sennder closed an all-cash acquisition of C.H. Robinson's European Surface Transportation business — a deal that doubled sennder's revenue to €1.4B and positioned it among Europe's top 5 FTL providers. The immediate product challenge: migrate ~12,000 carriers (~90% of the acquired business) onto sennder's platform without disrupting hundreds of millions in revenue in the process.

The Approach

Led the supplier-side product integration — defining the carrier migration journey, sequencing the rollout across markets, and coordinating product, ops, and commercial teams across Europe. Designed a seamless cutover that gave every carrier a clear path to the new platform before the old one was deprecated, prioritising revenue continuity at every step.

The Outcome
12,000 carriers migrated (~90% of the acquired business)
Zero revenue loss during cutover
€1.4B combined revenue — sennder now top 5 FTL in Europe

How I think about product.

Shaped across 9+ years, 3 industries, and a lot of commercial pressure.

→ Commercial instincts

Product tied to revenue

I think in P&L terms. My work has influenced pricing decisions, expansion ARR, renewal motions, and margin quality — not just feature delivery. At sennder I lead a portfolio touching ~80% of company revenue. At Navan, I embedded product directly into commercial motions with double-digit expansion ARR impact.

→ Discovery rigour

JTBD/ODI practitioner

I use Jobs-to-be-Done and Outcome-Driven Innovation as the foundation for strategy. Most product problems aren't solved by more data — they're solved by asking better questions of the right people, and finding creative ways to solve them. I've used JTBD/ODI to inform multi-year roadmaps and company-level strategy, not just individual features.

→ Cross-industry range

Pattern recognition across contexts

I've built in freight logistics, corporate travel, and live sports streaming — three industries with different customers, different dynamics, and surprisingly similar underlying problems. Switching industries isn't a liability. The pattern recognition it builds is one of the most useful things I bring into any room.

→ Platform depth

0→1 and 1→10 experience

I've built new products from scratch — sennder's Supplier Data Platform, and Navan's VIP travel product which didn't exist before the Reed & Mackay acquisition — and scaled existing ones to enterprise level (Navan Admin Platform to 8,000+ customers). I know which mode a team is in — and how to shift the approach accordingly.

What I actually believe.

Opinions formed across 9+ years, 3 industries, and a lot of things that didn't work the first time.

01

Most B2B product failures aren't execution failures. They're discovery failures. Teams build confidently from assumptions they never actually tested with the people doing the work.

02

Commercial and product need to be in the same room — not as occasional stakeholders, but as co-owners. When they're siloed, you get features nobody buys and deals nobody can deliver.

03

Strategy is a creative process. The best roadmaps I've seen weren't built from frameworks or slide templates — they came from someone sitting with a genuinely hard question long enough to find an answer that wasn't obvious.

04

The best product decisions I've seen weren't made with more data — they were made with sharper questions. The job is knowing what to ask before you know what to build.

Things I'm experimenting with.

Coming soon.

🧪

Watch this space

Currently exploring how AI changes product discovery, commercial decision-making in B2B, and how teams should restructure around it. Projects, experiments, and writing will appear here.

A bit more about me.

I started my career as a telecom engineer, spent years in quality and program management across Asia and Europe, did an Oxford MBA, and then found my way into product. That zigzag background is probably why I'm drawn to messy, cross-functional problems — the kind where the answer lives at the intersection of data, operations, and people.

I've lived and worked across India, the UK, and the Netherlands. I like building in environments where no two people in the room share the same cultural frame of reference — it's uncomfortable in the best way.

I'm better at asking questions than answering them — which turns out to be a useful trait in product. I grew up in India, did an MBA in Oxford as a means to pivot career, and somehow ended up building freight marketplaces in the Netherlands. I find that funny. I also find it clarifying: when nothing about your path is obvious, you stop assuming anything is.

Let's talk.

Whether it's about product leadership, B2B platform strategy, advisory work, or just a good conversation — I'm happy to connect.

Connect on LinkedIn