Ray is a SaaS veteran with 20+ years of PLM, development and product launch experience in both hardware and enterprise software organizations. Ray has held multiple executive positions at companies such as Agile Software, Apttus, Vendavo and Centric Software.
Fun Fact: Ray volunteers about two weeks a year with organizations like the American Diabetes Association, Family Giving Tree and Second Harvest Food Bank.
Product Management
Blog
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4min
Supply chain professionals need to ask themselves how their products are being designed and commercialized, as well as which markets they’re being sold to.
January 5, 2024
By
Ray Hein
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Founder & Board Member, Propel
Operations
Blog
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4min
It’s time to lean into smart technology to help close the skills gap.
September 13, 2023
By
Ray Hein
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Founder & Board Member, Propel
Innovation
Video
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24min
Three experts—Kirsten Allegri Williams, Cindy Bolt, and Ray Hein—explore how changing consumer behavior is affecting manufacturers and why they need to think differently to succeed in a digitized world.
May 18, 2023
By
Propel
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Propel Software Solutions
Product Management
Video
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28min
Two sustainability leaders share how ESG is impacting business practices, and what companies must do to make a real impact for future generations. Featuring leading experts Kevin O'Marah and Ralph Loura.
May 17, 2023
By
Propel
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Propel Software Solutions
Innovation
Blog
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3min
As with any business model evolution, the move toward subscription models is having a big impact on a number of key roles at product companies.
April 10, 2023
By
Ray Hein
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Founder & Board Member, Propel
Innovation
Blog
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4min
Here are some tips for managing digital transformation to deliver revenue growth and cost savings.
March 10, 2023
By
Ray Hein
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Founder & Board Member, Propel
News & Updates
Blog
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6min
Coming from all over the world, almost all members of the Propel team convened to kick off FY24, the majority meeting each other in person for the very first time.
March 3, 2023
By
Ray Hein
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Founder & Board Member, Propel
Product Management
Blog
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6min
Many legacy systems have fallen to the wayside due to market evolution, but none faster than enterprise resource planning (ERP). Here’s the new solution that’s eradicating the dinosaurs.
January 11, 2023
By
Ray Hein
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Founder & Board Member, Propel
News & Updates
Video
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30min
Why is it important to be an agent of change for your business? At the first-ever Salesforce Manufacturing Summit in December 2022, Ray Hein of Propel and Michael Farr of MSA Safety present.
January 4, 2023
By
Ray Hein
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Founder & Board Member, Propel
News & Updates
Blog
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3min
Cultivating the value of giving back in your workplace instills the message that even with the smallest of efforts, you can always make a big impact.
December 21, 2022
By
Ray Hein
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Founder & Board Member, Propel
News & Updates
Blog
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3min
Propel’s chief strategy officer Ray Hein on his learnings from a unique event for the manufacturing industry cloud space.
December 15, 2022
By
Ray Hein
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Founder & Board Member, Propel
Innovation
Blog
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9min
Despite the outsized product success of implementing composable technology for enterprise software, we’re still years away from a majority adoption.
October 6, 2022
By
Ray Hein
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Founder & Board Member, Propel
News & Updates
Blog
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6min
Advice from two panels of manufacturing, high-tech, and medtech industry veterans sharing their insights about business transformation.
August 17, 2022
By
Anna Troiano
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Editor in Chief, Converged
Innovation
Video
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8min
With seismic changes threatening our economy, global relations, legislature, and environment all at once, how can business leaders provide stability for their employees? Propel CEO Ray Hein explains in our debut Converged Conversation.
August 16, 2022
By
Ray Hein
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Founder & Board Member, Propel
Innovation
Video
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4min
In CEO & Founder Ray Hein's keynote for Propulsion 2022, he announced our new name, a new approach to product development, and a potential new future for the product industry.
May 26, 2022
By
Ray Hein
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Founder & Board Member, Propel
News & Updates
Blog
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4min
Since the very beginning, Propel's five core values have shaped our culture. Now, they're setting us up for the next chapter.
May 12, 2022
By
Ray Hein
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Founder & Board Member, Propel
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Product Management
Blog
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4min
Supply chain professionals need to ask themselves how their products are being designed and commercialized, as well as which markets they’re being sold to.
January 5, 2024
By
Ray Hein
|
Founder & Board Member, Propel
Operations
Blog
|
4min
It’s time to lean into smart technology to help close the skills gap.
September 13, 2023
By
Ray Hein
|
Founder & Board Member, Propel
Innovation
Blog
|
3min
As with any business model evolution, the move toward subscription models is having a big impact on a number of key roles at product companies.
April 10, 2023
By
Ray Hein
|
Founder & Board Member, Propel
Innovation
Blog
|
4min
Here are some tips for managing digital transformation to deliver revenue growth and cost savings.
March 10, 2023
By
Ray Hein
|
Founder & Board Member, Propel
News & Updates
Blog
|
6min
Coming from all over the world, almost all members of the Propel team convened to kick off FY24, the majority meeting each other in person for the very first time.
March 3, 2023
By
Ray Hein
|
Founder & Board Member, Propel
Product Management
Blog
|
6min
Many legacy systems have fallen to the wayside due to market evolution, but none faster than enterprise resource planning (ERP). Here’s the new solution that’s eradicating the dinosaurs.
January 11, 2023
By
Ray Hein
|
Founder & Board Member, Propel
News & Updates
Blog
|
3min
Cultivating the value of giving back in your workplace instills the message that even with the smallest of efforts, you can always make a big impact.
December 21, 2022
By
Ray Hein
|
Founder & Board Member, Propel
News & Updates
Blog
|
3min
Propel’s chief strategy officer Ray Hein on his learnings from a unique event for the manufacturing industry cloud space.
December 15, 2022
By
Ray Hein
|
Founder & Board Member, Propel
Innovation
Blog
|
9min
Despite the outsized product success of implementing composable technology for enterprise software, we’re still years away from a majority adoption.
October 6, 2022
By
Ray Hein
|
Founder & Board Member, Propel
News & Updates
Blog
|
6min
Advice from two panels of manufacturing, high-tech, and medtech industry veterans sharing their insights about business transformation.
August 17, 2022
By
Anna Troiano
|
Editor in Chief, Converged
News & Updates
Blog
|
4min
Since the very beginning, Propel's five core values have shaped our culture. Now, they're setting us up for the next chapter.
May 12, 2022
By
Ray Hein
|
Founder & Board Member, Propel
View More
Innovation
Video
|
24min
Three experts—Kirsten Allegri Williams, Cindy Bolt, and Ray Hein—explore how changing consumer behavior is affecting manufacturers and why they need to think differently to succeed in a digitized world.
May 18, 2023
By
Propel
|
Propel Software Solutions
Product Management
Video
|
28min
Two sustainability leaders share how ESG is impacting business practices, and what companies must do to make a real impact for future generations. Featuring leading experts Kevin O'Marah and Ralph Loura.
May 17, 2023
By
Propel
|
Propel Software Solutions
Innovation
Video
|
4min
In CEO & Founder Ray Hein's keynote for Propulsion 2022, he announced our new name, a new approach to product development, and a potential new future for the product industry.
May 26, 2022
By
Ray Hein
|
Founder & Board Member, Propel
View More
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