Successful Career Leads to Supporting Students

“Georgia Tech's challenging education and breadth of student activities gave me the opportunity to develop valuable personal and professional skills.”

Lisa Gareis Korslund grew up in Atlanta and graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology before moving to Minnesota to start a job at Pillsbury. There, she met an Iowa State University agricultural engineer named Jim Korslund, whom she married in 1986. "We've successfully managed two careers in multiple locations over the years," she says. They've lived and worked in Minnesota, Texas, the Netherlands, England, and Switzerland.

Lisa worked in R&D for Pillsbury, Frito-Lay, and General Mills, as well as some of their joint ventures, such as Snack Ventures Europe and Cereal Partners Worldwide. "When I retired, I was a senior R&D director leading teams around the world in both product and packaging development," she says. Her husband has worked with Cargill in grain operations and for General Mills in engineering project management.

Both Lisa and Jim are very involved with their church, St. Stephen's Episcopal in Edina, Minnesota, with Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity, and with Be The Match, a bone marrow registry. Lisa is currently in remission from leukemia thanks to a stem cell donation from a German donor in 2010.

Lisa and Jim have chosen to continue their charitable service through a bequest provision, part of which will support the Lisa Gareis Korslund and James R. Korslund Georgia Tech Marching Band Endowment. The remainder funds the Lisa Gareis Korslund and James R. Korslund ChBE Scholarship Endowment.

Contact Gift Planning at 404.894.4678 or giftplanning@dev.gatech.edu to learn how you can support future students with a gift in your estate plan.