Atlee Valentine Pope

Atlee Valentine Pope is co-founder and leader of Blue Canyon Partners and the co-author of the growth strategy book, CoDestiny: Overcome Your Growth Challenges By Helping Your Customers Overcome Theirs. Atlee has worked with global business-to-business executives and private equity firms, co-authored more than 50 papers, and has been a guest speaker at numerous business and university events. Before co-founding and building Blue Canyon Partners, Atlee served in leadership roles in several start-up ventures and was a vice president in global corporate finance with First Chicago. Atlee earned an MBA from Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management and a BA from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.

Atlee serves as an Independent Director at Gibraltar Industries, Inc. (Nasdaq: ROCK). She sits on the Compensation and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees.