Lisa Hold, MSAC 571.599.8018

lhold@allergear.com

www.allergear.com

Highly-innovative and motivated professional with experience in addiction counseling, sales, and

entrepreneuial start-ups. High-energy personality with a passion to help people and children in

particular. Primary strenghts are: empathy, creativity, motivation, and fearlessness. Able to adapt

to rapidly-shifting priorities while maintaining a positive attitude. Excellent oral and written skills

and able to work effectively with diverse personalities to drive consensus and overcome obstacles.

Pursuing a career path that can leverage my experience and strenghths and allow me to stretch into

new challenges.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

AllerGear May 2014 - Present

Founder

Founded AllerGear to promote food allergy awareness and safety for children while away from home.

Invented the EpiPen® BackPack, which was designed to resemble the EpiPen injector itself, thus

creating a strong awareness factor for small children while at school.

Contacted Mylan Pharma senior management with concept and obtained a license agreement to

market the EpiPen® BackPack.

Established agreements with Walmart.com, Walgreens, CVS, and JC Penney to sell backpack in their

retail and online sales channels.

Sold-out entire first run of product in nine months and nearing break-even point overall.

Partnering with The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, authored the AllerAware program

to establish standards, guidelines, and best practices for charter schools throughout the nation.

As part of AllerAware program, developed smartphone application that helps manage food allergy

emergency events.

Identified and articulated two industry-recognized food allergy-related anxiety conditions -- Food

Allergy Anxiety Disorder and Food Allergy Related Anorexia Disorder which have been published in

MedCrave On-line Publishing Journal.

Homemaker and Graduate Student September 2008 – May 2014

Took time off from working to be a mom and then attended graduate school, earning a Master of Science

Addiction Counseling degree. Pursued this education as my son was diagnosed at a very young age with

severe food allergies and this track gave me a chance to pursue my passion as an advocate in the area of food

allergies in children and the related and often intense levels of anxieties.

Halo Mortgage July 2006 – September 2008

Marketing Director

Joined this mortgage banking start-up and supported in multiple ways but primarily responsible for all

marketing and sales-related efforts.

Lead all marketing and branding initiatives, co-developing company’s logo, website design, and

marketing materials.

Responsible for advertising campaign that included development of movie theater ads as well as

billboard ads in the Tucson, AZ area.

Authored all brochures and print media as well as co-development of all website content.

Managed an overall spend of $100k in advertising over three years and helped company to generate

significant growth in five states up until financial crash.

First Magnus Financial Corporation December 2002 – July 2006

Loan Originator

After relocating back to Arizona, joined what would become the nation’s largest privately-held wholesale

mortgage originator.

As a Regional Account Executive representing the Midwest region, was responsible for establishing

and maintaining broker relationships, as well as ensuring that all originated loan volume was

processed efficiently.

Originated over $100 million in residential wholesale loans while in the role and consistently

performed in the top 20% of peer group.

Promoted in 2004 to work as a Loan Originator in the newly-established Lending Tree retail sales

channel, working directly with Lending Tree customers to originate and process loans.

Consistently a top loan volume originator with over $40 million in residential loans funded in less

than two years.

Equix Financial Corporation December 1998 – December 2002

Loan Processor and Funder

Performed all loan processing and funding activities to support the company’s third-party wholesale

mortgage fulfillment business.

Resolved loan issues, working with both the consumer and third-party vendors and internal

underwriters to ensure loan quality for our customers, which included GMAC, Temple Inland and

other top twenty national mortgage originators.

Consistently performed in the top 10% of peer group and was recognized on several occasions for my

commitment to quality and accuracy.

Health PCS June 1995 – October 1998

Customer Service Representative & Team Lead

Performed all CSR-related activities to support retail pharmacy customers via call center.

Resolved order and billing-related issues for the Federal Employee Program.

Consistent high performer and was promoted to Team Lead where I continued to both act as CSR and

mentored/supported fellow CSR’s.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration – University of Phoenix

Master of Science in Addiction Counseling – Grand Canyon University

Graduated Summa Cum Laude with a 3.98 GPA

PUBLICATIONS MedCrave On-line Publishing Journal (Peer reviewed)

Allergies & Asthma, allow me to introduce you to Nanoparticles

http://medcraveonline.com/MOJI/MOJI-03-00101.php

Food Allergy Anxiety Disorder (FAAD) and Food Allergy Related Anorexia Disorder

(FARAD)

http://medcraveonline.com/MOJI/MOJI-04-00131.php

HPA Axis is related to Childhood Asthma and Allergy Risk

http://medcraveonline.com/MOJI/MOJI-03-00102.php

Co-Occurring Disorder Assessment Steps

http://medcraveonline.com/MOJI/MOJI-04-00124.php