Sean Nevins
- Education
- Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- Entrepreneurial Mgmt & Finance
- Education
- Stanford d.school
- Published
- Harvard Business Review
- "Discovery-Driven Planning"
I have spent three decades identifying structural market vulnerabilities before they became existential ones—at a Fortune 300 company, inside VC-backed startups, and as a founder scaling regulated businesses from concept to exit.
My career started at Wharton, where I helped synthesize the operational frameworks for the Harvard Business Review methodology, "Discovery-Driven Planning." I founded The Zermatt Group to operationalize those frameworks, spending nine years directing commercial strategy and capital reallocation for Fortune 1000 clients. That work led to a venture development mandate at Air Products, where I was tasked by the C-suite to build a net-new healthcare division from zero—culminating in a landmark Mayo Clinic partnership and a successful strategic exit.
Throughout that career, I kept seeing the same pattern: enterprises with dominant market positions losing ground to structural forces they couldn't measure. AI synthesis is the latest—and most dangerous—version of that problem. I built Mavorac to be the only firm that engineers the fix rather than reports the damage.