Management Team

Mango Partners have extensive experience in starting and growing businesses from a zero base in North America and several other international markets.

Vaughan Wiles
Vaughan founded Mango, and has specialized in US market entry since 1984, having provided interim management for several companies during their start-up phases. Major affiliations include Freeplay Energy Group (helped secure major funding from General Electric and grew USA sales to $25 million from start-up in 3 years); Electromatic access control devices; Royal Doulton water filtration; Johnson Harvey management consulting group (secured sales throughout North and South America); Vivian Regina (high technology fiberglass systems); Cofrusa, Spain’s largest canned fruit exporter (developed USA market to full plant capacity after three years); Genesis Packaging Systems (a partnership with Alcoa to commercialize new plastic packaging technologies).

James Buckley
James has led the establishment of several new businesses, both investor and privately owned, in Europe, the UK, South Africa and the USA. Recent clients include Global-Nomi Lda., a pre-paid telephony company marketing international and local telecommunication services in Europe and the US. James’ strengths include operations, IT systems, international telephony, computer networking, and electronic security. Other clients and partner companies include Popcorn Communications, Switched Telephony Networks, Cable Applications, Allemann Cables and Siemens SA.

St. John
St. John founded Hotel Express International UK, which has the exclusive UK trading rights for Hotel Express, the world’s first and leading travel club operating worldwide. Other clients and affiliations include Hitura, a London-based web-development agency supporting clients such as Nike, Ben Sherman, Guinness; Contact Telecom Ltd. (low-cost pre-paid telecom services); Freeplay Energy Group; and Bankers Trust (acquired by Deutsche Bank).