Current Position and Past Experience
Gates Bryant is a partner in the strategy consulting practice. Gates is an experienced general manager and strategy consultant with a successful track record for bridging the gap between innovative strategy and practical execution. In addition to providing consultations to clients, Gates has been an integral part of Tyton Partners thought leadership efforts, including the publication of the Time for Class series, the Driving Toward a Degree series, and Learning to Adapt 2.0: The Evolution of Adaptive Learning. Prior to joining Tyton Partners, Gates was an executive with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, working in strategy, product management, and finance during a period of dramatic change in the educational publishing and technology industry. Prior to joining Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Gates spent seven years as a strategy consultant with the Parthenon Group. He advised clients on issues of revenue growth, profit improvement, and opportunities for mergers and acquisitions in the information, education, publishing, and technology industries. Gates began his career as an investment consultant with Cambridge Associates where he evaluated global private equity and venture capital funds on behalf of foundations, endowments and other institutions.

Education, Honors and Achievements
Gates holds a BA in Government from Dartmouth College and an MBA from the Tuck School at Dartmouth.

Personal Details and Community Involvement
Gates is an advocate for affordable private schools in the developing world. From 2010 to 2014, Gates served on the start-up team of Edify, a US-based nonprofit that provides microloans, curriculum, and training to Christian schools in Africa and Latin America.

Connect
You can connect with Gates on Twitter at @cgatesbryant and LinkedIn, or read more of his writing on the Tyton Partners blog.