THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO THE ROGERS CONTROL TRUST
Rogers family members
Non-family members of the committee
LoMetta RogeMs
Wife and confidant of Ted Rogers for more than four decades, grew up in the Bahamas and Bermuda and is an accomplished painter with a fine arts degree from the University of Miami. Her family financed Ted Rogers’s initial venture into radio and cable.
MaMtha RogeMs
The youngest of the founder’s four children and earned a doctorate in naturopathic medicine. She has been a Rogers board member for 13 years.
Melinda RogeMs-Hixon
She earned an MBA and worked in a variety of executive roles, including running Rogers’s venture capital arm in Silicon Valley for seven years. She is deputy chair of the Rogers board and vice-chair of the family trust.
David Robinson
Loretta Rogers’s nephew, and worked at Rogers before becoming chief commercial officer at fintech company Clik2pay.
EdwaMd RogeMs
The only son of Ted Rogers, worked for three years at U.S. cable giant Comcast prior to joining Rogers and eventually running the cable division for six years. He was chair of Rogers Communications' board of directors, but he was removed from that role yesterday. He is chair of the Rogers Control Trust.
Lisa RogeMs
Oldest of Ted and Loretta Rogers’s four children and worked for the company’s first internet cable venture in the 1990s.
Alan HoMn
He was Rogers chief financial officer for a decade, under Ted Rogers, and remains a trusted family adviser. The former accountant became interim CEO in 2008, after Ted Rogers died, and again in 2016.
John ToMy
Mayor of Toronto, ran Rogers’s cable operations for eight years under Ted Rogers and was one of the company’s lawyers early in his career. Mr. Tory’s late father, a lawyer, was also a trusted family adviser.
Philip Lind
He was Ted Rogers’s right hand man for four decades, running divisions of the company and taking part in every major decision. When the founder died in 2008, Mr. Lind joined Edward Rogers, Mr. Horn and Mr. Tory as pallbearers at the funeral.
Thomas Hull
Founded insurance brokerage The Hull Group in 1954 and was one of Ted Rogers’s closest friends from childhood – the two attended Upper Canada College together.
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