Eunice native Lisa Dies Roy is leading a company’s teams that help build field hospitals across the country in response the coronavirus COVID-19.
Roy, 48, of Baton Rouge, was featured in a Wall Street Journal story published April 13.
She is the daughter of Darrell and Marilyn Dies, of Eunice. Her father shared the article.
Lisa Roy went to Eunice High School, LSUE and LSU Baton Rouge, Darrell Dies said.
Roy is the top U.S. sales executive for Johnson Controls International PLC, a Milwaukee-based maker of control systems for buildings, such as heating and air-conditioning gear, the Journal stated.
Johnson Controls sells products to 85% of the hospitals in the U.S.
According to the Journal, Roy has spent most of her 26-year career with Johnson Controls.
“Ms. Roy’s tasks include keeping thousands of employees and multiple projects on track. She watches for bottlenecks that cause delays, and pushes employees to adjust and innovate on the fly,” the Journal stated.
“Ms. Roy’s experience is important to her current job. As the company’s sales chief for North America, she was responsible for a region that pulled in $9 billion in annual revenue and for thousands of salespeople and field technicians who installed products such as patient monitoring systems and building security systems,” the Journal stated.
Roy is working from her home as are sales representatives, the Journal reported.
“Her temporary role heading the response to Covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, includes oversight of the design, purchasing and technology operations committed to health-care projects. Her task force expedites the contracts for work at hospitals in less time than her colleagues thought possible before the pandemic,” the Journal stated.
The Journal reported Johnson Controls has moved from adapting existing hospitals to makeshift sites in tents and repurposed buildings.