Executive team

Mr. Johnson oversees the day-to-day operations of the Company as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors. Mr. Johnson has been a financial professional for over 35 years servicing customers and investors all over the world. His experience in finance includes managing employees and assets for clients during some of the most challenging market environments in history. After forming Propellus in 2020 to help small business owners in the middle of the pandemic, he was featured on the cover of The Top 100 People in Finance magazine in 2021.  From 1998 to 2003 he was a Private Wealth Manager and sales supervisor at an international NYSE firm that had over $2 billion in assets and 250 employees worldwide. By then, he had led or participated in offerings and private placements that totaled over $10 billion. From 2003 to 2008, Mr. Johnson helped market and co-develop his first factoring company venture that returned over 48 percent to its investors over 4 years. In 2008, Mr. Johnson founded and developed his own proprietary factoring and alternative financing company that grew assets from zero to over $25,000,000. In 2016, he founded GF Management LLC than managed a financing company primarily engaged in merchant cash advances, and by 2019 as its CEO, grew the assets from zero to over $20,000,000.    He received his degree from Pace University, Lubin School of Business, with honors, in Finance and Management Science and did graduate work in International Finance and Economics. He also has completed certificate programs in both Factoring and Merchant Cash Advances. Mr. Johnson has been a Registered Financial Consultant with the International Association of Registered Financial Consultants (IARFC) since 2008. He has earned five professional designations from the American Academy of Financial Management, including Chartered Economist (ChE®), and Master Financial Planner (MFP®).   He is married and a father of two boys, one with special needs. As an active member of the community, he works with several charities,  benefitting children with special needs. Mr. Johnson is also the State Director of New Jersey for FLEOA, a 501c3 organization that financially supports families of federal officers lost in the line of duty.

Mr. Colombo is Head of Collections at Propellus and a Director. He brings nearly 40 years experience in debt collections for the financial sector and is the President of StreetWide Asset Recovery Group, Inc. Throughout his career, he has built and managed debt collection departments at financial institutions that have generated high revenues, achieved significant debt recovery rates, and rationalized expenditures for legal services. Mr. Colombo began his career at PaineWebber, Inc. in 1983, where he was put in charge of all inhouse collections for the firm’s 270 retail branches and managed a staff of eight.  After founding Streetwide in 2001, Mr. Colombo has performed collection services for top tier firms such as Merrill Lynch, Legg Mason Wood Walker, Inc., Raymond James and Associates, Inc., Paine Webber, Inc., Morgan Keegan and Co., Inc., Wachovia Securities, MetLife Securities, Harris Investor Services/CSFB, and Ryan Beck and Co, Inc. and Pershing, LLC, as well as FINRA. Throughout most of his career, Mr. Colombo has also worked directly with the FINRA's Office of Dispute Resolution, the NYSE enforcement and arbitration divisions and the American Arbitration Association.  His industry experience and acumen make him a powerful part of the executive team.