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Propelon is the enterprise execution system that turns AI initiatives into verified outcomes. We exist because building got cheap, deciding got expensive, and someone has to keep the score honest.
The management system for turning AI investment into enterprise value
That is the plain-English answer to what Propelon does; the category is the Enterprise AI Value Realization Platform. Every previous technology wave eventually got its management discipline. AI’s is overdue: AI collapsed the cost of invention and left the discipline of innovation untouched, so enterprises are surrounded by activity and starved of attributable impact. Propelon was built to close that gap — with gates that can refuse, telemetry instead of self-report, human attestation on consequential decisions, and value states that are never blended.
- Management discipline
- Accountability
- Measurement
Founded by an operator
Propelon was founded by Mahesh Rao, chief executive officer — a transformational leader who has spent more than two decades helping organizations, from Fortune 100 companies to high-growth startups, get from vision to execution. His lens is the transformation triangle — people, process and systems — and Propelon is that lens built into an operating system for enterprise AI.
Mahesh is the author of Front Runners: Lap Your Competition With 10 Game-changing Strategies for Total Business Transformation, and he leads Transformational Leadership: Front Runners in Organizations, a LinkedIn community of 127,000+ change-makers. He created the IP behind the platform — including the two granted and two pending US patents behind Propelon’s accountability and value-realization system — and led the Fortune 5 healthcare deployment. More at maheshrao.com.
Go-to-market is led by Todd Yancey, chief commercial officer, after a career of sales and revenue leadership in fintech and enterprise software.
The company was shaped inside large, regulated enterprises — which is why evidence, attestation and auditability are the product, not features bolted onto it. Decades of practice are built in by design:
- Change management
- Product development
- Decision-making
- Innovation
- Six Sigma
- Collaboration
- Engineering
- Behavioral economics
Propelon
10080 N. Wolfe Road, Suite SW3-200
Cupertino, CA 95014
Built by people who have done this before
Mahesh Rao
Mahesh is a business transformation expert who has driven growth and innovation at Fortune 500 companies. He’s the author of Front Runners, a guide that helps senior leaders transform their companies. He founded Propelon to close the gap between strategy and reality.
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Todd Yancey
Todd has spent 25 years building enterprise revenue engines across AI, cloud, cybersecurity and fintech — $100M+ personally closed, $1B+ in team revenue. Founder of A8 Core and B5 Secure and creator of the Seven C’s of Selling, he leads Propelon’s go-to-market.
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Shaun Lambert, CPA
Shaun is a transformative financial executive with decades of experience driving enterprise value through controllership, M&A execution, and financial leadership. Known for his ability to bridge technical expertise with forward-looking strategic finance, he has built a career as a trusted advisor to boards, CEOs, and investors.
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Alex Korol
For over 20 years, Alex has been asking, “What changes for users on Monday and why do they care?” At Propelon, he leads product for a platform built on his lifelong conviction: strategy only counts once it turns into measurable execution.
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Shashi Kumar
Shashi has been a software builder and innovator for 25 years. He was one of the developers behind Cisco’s multi-billion-dollar Catalyst 3K switching platform. Now he is leveraging cutting-edge technologies to enable Propelon’s performance.
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Shani Harmon
Shani has spent decades transforming organizations around the globe including Nokia, AbbVie and Eli Lilly. Most recently, she was CEO of Stop Meeting Like This, a services firm enabling high-performance collaboration and modeling the idea that work can be joyful and productive.
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