Loretta Rogers

Rogers was born on April 13, 1939, in London, England.[1] She is the younger child and only daughter of Roland Robinson, 1st Baron Martonmere, and his wife, Maysie Gasque (died 1989). Her father was a British Conservative Party politician who was granted the hereditary title of Baron Martonmere in 1964. He served as Governor of Bermuda from 1964 to 1972.

She married Ted Rogers on September 25, 1963.[2] Together, they had four children: Lisa, Edward, Melinda and Martha.[2]

Rogers holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Miami.[1] She has received two honorary doctorates, from the University of Western Ontario and Ryerson University.

Rogers has served as a non-independent director of Rogers Communications Inc. since December 1979. She is also a director of Rogers Media Inc., Rogers Telecommunications Inc., Rogers Cable Inc., and Rogers Wireless Communications Inc.[3] In 2016, Forbes magazine estimated Rogers' net worth at US$5.5 billion.[4]

Rogers' only son, Edward Rogers III, serves as the chairman of Rogers Communications. He is also the chair of the Rogers Control Trust, which controls the majority of the voting shares of Rogers Communications.

Her daughter Melinda Rogers-Hixson founded Rogers Venture Partners, the technology investment arm headquartered in San Francisco. She also serves as the vice-chair of the Rogers Control Trust.[4][5]

With her late husband, Ted Rogers, she established the Loretta A. Rogers Chair in Eating Disorders at Toronto General & Western Hospital, part of the University Health Network, where she has served on the foundation board since 2005 and where the Ted Rogers and Family Chair in Heart Function was established in 2009.[6] This was complemented by the Ted Rogers Centre of Excellence in Heart Function in 2012.