About us
The founders of Merrimack Management Associates, Susan Mills and Adam Pattantyus, have each built a decades-long career in business prior to forming MMA in 2008.
Susan is an experienced market strategist. Adam has deep experience in environmental, social and non-profit work. He is widely known and respected across industries for his insightful, compassionate leadership, facilitation and business contributions.
Susan Mills began her career in 1968 with Time, Inc. working in journalism and consumer marketing. From 1980 until 2007 her work focused on strategic positioning and market planning within the voice and data communications technology industry. In March 2007 Susan founded EASE to bring cross-sector business systems, on-line capabilities and market-based approaches to social and environmental purposes. Her belief is that profitability and positive community impact can be mutually-reinforcing incentives to act. In August 2008 Susan helped form MMA with Adam to provide consulting and management services. This relationship matured concepts from the energyEASE07 conference into the full EASE Change Suite of services and systems.
Adam Pattantyus is an experienced business processes professional and social change leader. Adam has 25 years of experience in management and engineering. He has worked primarily in New England with enterprises ranging from Fortune 500 companies to venture-backed start-ups. For the past decade, Adam's work has focused on clean technology and socially responsible businesses. He has worked in company leadership and management, strategy, product development, program management and organizational development. Adam holds degrees in Industrial and Mechanical Engineering and an MBA. In the mid-80's, Adam was a Captain in the US Army in Europe.
Active in community sustainability interests, Adam served as a founding board member of New Hampshire Businesses for Social Responsibility, former board Member /Treasurer of Sustainable Step New England and presently is a board member of Community Dialogues in New Hampshire.
key collaborators
MMA works closely with the following companies and their leaders whose skills and resources complement our own.
EASE Environmental Accountability for a Sustainable Earth (EASE) was formed by Susan in 2007 to bring accountable and trustworthy business collaboration processes to the emerging ‘green’ market. EASE has since expanded to offer its EASE Change Suite of on-line capabilities and systems as well as various social purpose initiatives and collaboration-for-purpose programs. EASE programs offer brand placement, market development and industry collaboration opportunities for MMA clients and others.
Gaiasoft International Gaiasoft CEO Morel Fourman is respected worldwide for his inspirational and dedicated leadership in the field of social collaboration and organizational performance accountability. Morel’s creativity continuously fuels MMA opportunities. Gaiasoft technology in incorporated into the EASE Change Suite offers as core on-line capabilities.
Athena Bridge CEO/founder Lucas Cioffi is a valued member of our network, serving as a founding advisor to the Resilient Universities initiative. AthenaBridge provides structured on-line and in-person ‘town hall meeting’ dialog capabilities. This technology is incorporated into the EASE Change Suite offers.