The founder and owner of Model City Roofing, Chris Canipe, is a native of a small town in East TN, Kingsport, the original Model City. He graduated from the University of TN with a degree in logistics. Upon graduation, he accepted a job offer from Exxon Mobile. During the next ten years, he worked for several publicly traded companies, included two Fortune 100 companies. He gained business contacts all over the country, honed his high-level professional management skills, and learned the latest technologies.

While he enjoyed this work, his dream was to own and operate his own business. In 2016 he bought a small roofing business in Jacksonville, FL, North Florida Roofing. Under his leadership the company flourished. Desiring to contribute to his community back home, Chris opened a subsidiary in Kingsport in 2019 and changed the company name to Model City Roofing. Since then the company has expanded into Orlando and Tampa with plans of further expansion into Knoxville, TN, and Asheville, NC.

Although Model City Roofing has grown rapidly, Chris is committed to maintaining the same high-level professionalism, ethics, and customer service that have grown that first small company so successfully.