George Alexander Cope CM (born 28 July 1961) is a Canadian businessman, and the former CEO of Bell Canada.
[1] Cope's father played for a short time for the Toronto Argonauts, after which he ran gas stations and rustproofing shops.
[2] Cope was named CEO of Bell[citation needed] at the age of 53 as part of a proposed thirty five billion dollar leveraged buyout led by Providence Equity and the Ontario Teachers' Pension Fund in 2008.
[3] In 2010, Cope led the launch of the Bell Let's Talk Initiative,[4] a major corporate campaign to improve mental health in Canada, for which he received The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal.
[citation needed] In June 2019, BCE announced Cope will retire in January 2020, at which point COO Mirko Bibic will become CEO.