Leslie Marshall

NATIONAL ACCOUNTS SALES MANAGER, ATLAS COPCO

2017 Business Award Winner

Leslie Marshall is a Strategic Account Sales Manager for Atlas Copco Compressors, a global corporation that designs, manufactures, and services industrial air and gas compression systems, air treatment equipment, and industrial gas generators while focusing on energy efficiency. She is also a certified Fundamentals instructor with the Compressed Air Challenge (CAC), an organization that conducts instructional training programs to provide product-neutral, expert-led education helping industrial facilities optimize their compressed air systems, reduce energy consumption, and lower operating costs.

Before joining Atlas Copco, Marshall was Corporate Energy Engineering Lead for General Mills, which has committed to reducing its absolute greenhouse gas emissions across its full value chain. She was tasked with developing and executing the global strategy for reducing the energy usage and greenhouse gas emissions that result from production at General Mills’ food processing plants. She managed utility data, identified the largest opportunities to reduce energy usage, and provided cost analyses of new technology projects that would enable plants to run more efficiently. During her tenure, General Mills’ corporate and plant energy teams reduced the company’s adjusted energy usage by 11% and saved $23 million in energy costs. Marshall also participated in sustainability events to educate her community about General Mills’ commitment to the environment, and she frequently speaks at international conferences to collaborate on energy-reducing best practices with her peers across other industries. Marshall holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University’s School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.