About Venla Pouru

Venla Pouru is a business development and account management professional with experience in fintech and marine industries. Venla Pouru has ten years of experience in new business building, complex technology program management, top management consulting, as well as product management for software solutions. Venla Pouru has extensive work experience in various roles and industries. From 2024 to the present, they have been serving as the VP of Strategy and Revenue Operations at Enfuce. Prior to this, from November 2020 to February 2024, Venla worked as the Director of Strategy & Growth at Enfuce. Before joining Enfuce, they held the position of Business Development Director - Open Banking at the same company from August 2020 to November 2020. From 2018 to 2020, Venla Pouru worked at Eniram - a Wärtsilä Company. During this time, they served as a Senior Portfolio Product Manager/Key Account Manager, where they were responsible for the offering roadmap for voyage optimization software products and managed two multi-million customer accounts. Their previous experience includes working as a Strategic Portfolio Manager at OP Financial Group in 2017 and holding various roles at Reddal from 2013 to 2017, including Manager and Business Developer. At Reddal, Venla Pouru  supervised a global team of analysts and gained expertise in corporate strategy, project management, sales development, and marketing in several industries. In 2012, Venla Pouru worked as a Business Development Manager at Euformatics Oy, a bioinformatics software start-up, and was responsible for sales activities and various business development tasks. Their career also includes roles at Reddal as an Analyst from 2011 to 2012, where they developed internal processes and tools and worked as a project team member for a consumer product company. In 2010, Venla Pouru was a Trainee at August Associates, a management consulting firm, where they gained experience in sales steering and cost allocation projects for consumer product companies. Additionally, they worked as a Research Assistant at the BIT research institute (Helsinki University of Technology) from 2009 to 2010 and as a Course Assistant at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Helsinki University of Technology from 2009 to 2010. Throughout their career, Venla Pouru has demonstrated expertise in strategy, business development, sales, and project management across various industries. Venla Pouru completed their Master of Science degree in Industrial Engineering and Management with a minor in Bioinformation Technology at Aalto University from 2007 to 2013.