What Makes a Great Compliance Leader?

Lisa Mares, Executive Assistant, Compliance, Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc., USA

Great leaders exercise emotional intelligence, and they are very adept at understanding their strengths and weaknesses as well as those around them and can assess a situation pretty accurately and in a timely fashion. In other words, they are intuitive. And though they listen to the advice given by others, they make their own decisions and do not hesitate to stand for what is right.

Lisa brings over 15 years of Executive Assistant experience and has been instrumental in the following areas: Strategic Business Planning, Communications, Project Management, Operations, and Human Resources. Lisa holds a Bachelor of Science in Organizational Behavior and Leadership from the University of San Francisco and a Master of Science in Business Administration with a focus in Human Resource Management.

Aimmune was created in response to a united call to action from the leading minds and key stakeholders in food allergy who met at an advocacy-sponsored research retreat in 2011 to reach consensus on the direction of food allergy treatment research. Among the outcomes of the retreat, the group concluded that a standard oral immunotherapy (OIT) approach needed to be established, and associated products needed to be developed. When no pharmaceutical company showed interest in developing an OIT treatment, the food allergy community formed Aimmune. Today, Aimmune is working to fulfill the 2011 shared vision of developing a peanut allergy treatment and making it available to allergists for patients worldwide.