One is also a member of the Rogers Control Trust advisory committee
TORONTO – Two new directors have been nominated to Rogers Communication Inc.’s board along with the current directors, all of whom have been nominated for re-election at the company’s 2022 annual general meeting, which will be held on April 20.
According to a Rogers information circular, the board has set the number of directors to be elected at the upcoming meeting at 15.
In addition to the 13 current directors, David Robinson (above, left) and Dr. Mohamed Lachemi (right) have been nominated to be elected.
Robinson is a Rogers family member who is also on the advisory committee of the Rogers Control Trust, which holds voting control of the company. He is the chief commercial officer of Foghorn Payments Inc., according to the information circular. Previously, he spent almost 30 years at Rogers, where he “served in progressively more senior roles,” including as president and CEO of Rogers Bank from August 2015 to June 2019.
Lachemi is an “expert and accomplished academic administrator, and has been a key contributor to the growth and development of Ryerson University,” where he has been president and vice-chancellor since 2016, according to the information circular.
The current Rogers board of directors includes Edward Rogers, Melinda Rogers-Hixon, Martha Rogers, Loretta Rogers, Robert Gemmell, Michael Cooper, Jack Cockwell, Jan Innes, Ivan Fecan, John (Jake) Kerr, Alan Horn, Phil Lind, and Rogers president and CEO Tony Staffieri. (Robert Dépatie was also a director until he was appointed president and COO of Rogers home and business at the end of last year.)
Cooper, Cockwell, Innes, Fecan and Kerr replaced John Clappison, David Peterson, Bonnie Brooks, Ellis Jacob and John MacDonald last year during a power struggle at Rogers, which led to a court battle between the company and Edward Rogers over whether he has the power as chair of the Rogers Control Trust to remove and replace board members through a written consent resolution. (You can read about the power struggle and court battle here, here and here.)
Images borrowed from Rogers’ 2022 information circular.
