'''Loretta Anne Rogers''',''[[Birth name#Maiden and married names|née]]'' '''Robinson'''; April 13, 1939 – June 11, 2022) was an English-born Canadian billionaire businesswoman and philanthropist, who was a director of [[Rogers Communications]]. She was the wife of [[Edward S. Rogers Jr.|Ted Rogers]], who was the company's founding president and CEO. In 2015, ''[[Forbes]]'' estimated her net worth at US$5.5 billion.<ref name=Forbes>{{Cite web|title=Loretta Robinson|url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/loretta-robinson/|website=[[Forbes]]|date=March 2, 2015}}</ref>
'''Loretta Anne Rogers''' ({{nee}} '''Robinson'''; April 13, 1939 – June 11, 2022) was an English-born Canadian philanthropist and business executive who was a director of [[Rogers Communications]]. She was the wife of [[Edward S. Rogers Jr.|Ted Rogers]], who was the company's founding president and CEO. In 2015, ''[[Forbes]]'' estimated her net worth at US$5.5 billion.<ref name=Forbes>{{Cite web|title=Loretta Robinson|url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/loretta-robinson/|website=[[Forbes]]|date=March 2, 2015}}</ref>
Loretta Anne Rogers (néeRobinson; April 13, 1939 – June 11, 2022) was an English-born Canadian philanthropist and business executive who was a director of Rogers Communications. She was the wife of Ted Rogers, who was the company's founding president and CEO. In 2015, Forbes estimated her net worth at US$5.5 billion.[1]
Rogers died at her home in Toronto on June 11, 2022, at the age of 83.[5][6]
Rogers Communications
Rogers had served as a non-independent director of Rogers Communications Inc. since December 1979. She was also a director of Rogers Media Inc., Rogers Telecommunications Inc., Rogers Cable Inc., and Rogers Wireless Communications Inc.[7]
Rogers' only son, Edward Rogers III, is the chairman of Rogers Communications and the Rogers Control Trust, which controls the majority of the voting shares of Rogers Communications.[citation needed]
Her daughter Melinda Rogers-Hixson founded Rogers Venture Partners, the technology investment arm headquartered in San Francisco. She is the vice-chair of the Rogers Control Trust.[1][8]
Philanthropy
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 served on the foundation board from 2005, and where the Ted Rogers and Family Chair in Heart Function was established in 2009.[9] This was complemented by the Ted Rogers Centre of Excellence in Heart Function in 2012.[citation needed]