Lisa W. Lillelund, President and Founder

MANGO Networks was founded by Lisa W. Lillelund in 2006 as a Clean Energy and Environmental Communications Company.  MANGO Networks reflects Lisa's passion and desire to spend her working hours to help reduce pollution and to preserve our environment.

Lisa Lillelund has 20 years experience in international business with senior management positions based in the United States, Germany, and Belgium. Lisa specializes in Sustainability Consulting for businesses, resorts, business parks, communities and schools. Activities include Employee Engagement Programs, Best Practices and Industry Benchmarking Presentations for Executives, Green Team Development, Energy reduction, Recycling, Waste diversion, and Water conservation. 

Making organizations more Profitable by incorporating greater efficiency and more eco friendly ways of operation is a main focus of the consulting business. As a recent graduate in June 2010 from the Executive Program in Sustainable Management at the Presidio Graduate School in San Francisco, Lisa employs the Sustainability Frameworks and new perspectives she gained together with her business skills to assist corporations.

In addition to her consulting projects, Lisa promotes sustainable business practices and living through her articles, presentations and events. 

Lisa created, organized and co-hosted the 2010 Greenspiration Event, the 2009 Solar Fest and the 2008 Eco Film Festival of Massachusetts. As a regular columnist with the communtiy Newspaper corporation, Lisa enjoys reporting on the lastest clean energy products, technology, and events.

Prior to her focus on clean energy, Lisa co-founded a data communications start-up company which manufactured products in China. From 1988-2001 Lisa worked in the medical field of sports medicine, rehabilitation, medical testing and healthy aging. As Managing Director of Europe for Cybex, a manufacturer of medical testing and training equipment, Lisa opened the European headquarters in Brussels, Belgium where she lived from 1991-1996.  Lisa also opened the first subsidiary overseas with a direct sales and service office in Hamburg, Germany where she was named Geschäftsführerin (President). While livingis in Dublin, Ireland, Lisa was a European Correspondent on healthy aging initiatives.

During the years between receiving her BA degree from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI and her MBA from the Thunderbird Graduate School of International Management in Glendale, AZ, Lisa lived in Germany, Austria, France and California where she worked in various jobs relating to the export/import business. As a young college graduate, Lisa moved to Dusseldorf, Germany where she landed a job with Hitachi Metals and became one of the first female sales representatives in the European auto industry. In June 2010, Lisa graduated from the Executive Program in Sustainabile Management from the Presidio Graduate School in San Francisco.

She lives with her husband and sons on the north shore of Massachusetts where they enjoy boating in New England. Lisa is an avid skier and tennis player, loves going to the movies and watching her sons play soccer.  

Lisa enjoys travel and foreign cultures and thrives on communicating with people from various nationalities. She is fluent in German with dual German/American citizenship and is highly proficient in French. Lisa is currently studying the Mandarin Chinese language.

Lisa serves on the boards of Solar Now, Inc. and the Beverly Education Foundation and on the Sponsorship Committee of the Clean Tech InnoVenture Center of Massachusetts. Lisa is active in the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge where she was a mentor in the 2009 and 2008 ICE (Ignite Clean Energy) Competition. 

Sue Jennings Douglas

Sue Jennings Douglas is a graduate of Brown University, Class of 1984, with a major in Media and Modern Communications. Sue specializes in strategic public and private partnerships to advocate for educational, environmental and social causes through building effective individual, foundation and corporate relationships.   

Sue joined Mango Networks, Inc. in 2008 as Strategic Marketing Manager. She is responsible for the Sponsorship and Underwriting programs for educational events and awareness campaigns for promoting Clean Energy.  Sue is dedicated to advancing Clean Energy and is currently promoting the award-winning environmental film Burning the Future (www.burningthefuture.com) and organizing the 2009 Solar Field Day in Essex County, Massachusetts.

Prior to her focus on environmental issues, Sue launched her career in advertising in San Francisco for Saatchi & Saatchi/DFS and then Foote, Cone & Belding Worldwide focusing on consumer research, account planning and creative development for the following blue chip clients: Levi’s, Pillsbury, SC Johnson, Clorox and Hewlett Packard. Always seeking new challenges and driven by a commitment to serve the public good, Sue moved to Washington, DC, to pursue her passion to work in public television and radio. She joined WETA in Corporate Marketing and Foundation Development raising over $ 1 million annually to fund such premier television programs as: The Newshour with Jim Lehrer, Washington Week in Review, NOVA, Frontline, and top NPR radio programs including: All Things Considered, Fresh Air, Marketplace and Car Talk. Sue worked with a full range of clients from the arts and cultural institutions such as, The Kennedy Center, The Smithsonian Institute, The Washington Performing Arts Foundation as well as leading corporations, foundations and government funders including Boeing and Fidelity Investments.   

After WETA, Sue started her own consulting business working for international foundations on children’s health issues and educational and cultural programs for The Kellogg Foundation and The Patton Stiftung Foundation. 

In 2000, Sue returned to the Boston area where she grew up and is raising her family, including a happy Newfoundland and continuing to support local and national educational and environmental causes.