Gibraltar Industries, Inc. announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Linda K. Myers, a Partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, and Atlee Valentine Pope, President & Chief Executive Officer of Blue Canyon Partners, Inc. as new independent members of the Board, effective February 26, 2020. Additionally, Frank G. Heard, Vice Chairman of the Board and former Gibraltar CEO, will retire on March 3, 2020. Mr. Heard will serve out the remainder of his current Board term but will not stand for re-election at Gibraltar’s next Annual Meeting, which is expected to be held in May 2020. These changes bring Gibraltar’s total Board membership to 9 seats. Ms. Myers will sit on the Audit and Capital Structure and Asset Management Committees and Ms. Pope will sit on the Compensation and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees. Prior to Kirkland, she worked as an Associate at law firms Jones Day and Shearman & Sterling. Ms. Myers is a Member of the St. Ignatius College Prep Board of Trustees, a Member and Governance Committee Chair of The Chicago Network, and a Member of the Boards of the Lyric Opera of Chicago and The Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Atlee Valentine Pope is co-founder and leader Blue Canyon Partners. Prior to founding Blue Canyon Partners, she was Executive Director of Baker & Company, a privately-held consulting firm serving the automotive and telecommunications industry subsequently sold to J.D. Power & Associates, Principal & Member of Board of Directors of Highfield Associates Ltd., launching the US business for a UK start-up advisory firm serving European automotive, construction equipment and general manufacturing sectors, and Vice President, Capital Markets, Corporate Finance & Project Finance at First Chicago.