Shanu G. Trehan

Shanu G. Trehan is a product and growth executive with deep expertise in monetization, AI-driven personalization, and scaling SaaS and marketplace businesses. She started her career as an entrepreneur, building a Vendor Management System to track diamonds across global supply chains—an experience that reinforced how user insights, data, technology, and business strategy must work together to create lasting impact.

Most recently, Shanu was VP of Product at Udemy, where she led Product-Led Growth (PLG), AI-driven personalization, and platform strategy through a period of rapid expansion. She played a key role in transforming Udemy’s pricing and business model, spearheading the shift from penetration pricing to value-based pricing, helping to scale consumer subscriptions, driving the development of self-serve B2B solutions to unlock new market segments, and leading Udemy’s expansion into high-growth international markets, including India, LATAM, and Southeast Asia. Her work focused on leveraging user insights and AI-driven personalization to increase engagement, improve retention, and maximize revenue opportunities across Udemy’s global marketplace.

Shanu has helped high-growth companies scale from private to public markets, ensuring that product strategy evolves alongside increasing complexity, competition, and financial expectations. Her approach to product leadership focuses on seamlessly integrating user needs, business goals, and data-driven insights to create experiences that are intuitive, valuable, and drive long-term engagement.

Currently, as an Executive in Residence at Product School, Shanu is shaping the next generation of product leaders—designing curriculum, mentoring students, and teaching live cohorts. Drawing from her experience scaling global businesses, she helps product managers connect data, strategy, and execution to drive both user impact and business growth.