Chris Leong leaves Schneider Electric after 6 months as CSO

Chris Leong, who became Schneider Electric’s Chief Sustainability Officer in January, has left the company to take on a role at Ecolab.

Leong was Chief Marketing Officer at Schneider Electric for a decade before being appointed CSO six months ago. She’s the first person to have held the Chief Sustainability Officer title, though others have had a C-level sustainability responsibility before: Emmanuel Lagarrigue was Chief Strategy, Sustainability and Innovation Officer from 2016 to 2021 and Gwenaelle Avice Huet was Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer from 2022 to 2023.