Natale learned of the plan to unseat him when Mr. A spokesperson for Edward Rogers did not respond to a request for comment. When reached by The Globe and Mail Saturday, Martha Rogers declined to comment. “Nothing you can do will deter us,” she wrote. In the series of tweets, which started early Saturday morning and continued on Sunday, Martha Rogers wrote “we’ll spend every penny” defending the company, its 24,000 employees, and the wishes of her late father and company founder Ted Rogers. Horn could not immediately be reached for comment. I look forward to working with Edward, the Rogers family, and the reconstituted board to help the company complete its game-changing transaction with Shaw.” Horn, who was chief financial officer and interim CEO twice at Rogers, wrote last week: “I’ve always been focused on helping RCI realize its full potential. Both men have expressed their support for Edward Rogers, saying in e-mailed statements on Thursday that their priority is to help the company complete its $26-billion takeover of Shaw Communications Inc. Horn sit on the advisory committee that oversees the Rogers Control Trust, which owns 97.5 per cent of the company’s voting Class A shares. #OldGuardDown- Martha Rogers October 24, 2021īoth Mr. He’d be so disappointed to see how Ed & his puppet masters are behaving destroying the company he built. Rogers & its assets are bigger than any one interest. His play date tonight with the Old Guard is another waste of time. “Money, power & control have gone to their heads,” she wrote in a separate tweet.Įd will lose. Not this time,” she wrote, adding that the old guard she is referring to is led by Mr. They think they are masters of the universe instead of thinking about the impact their instability is causing tens of thousands of people. “Like in a bad movie, Ed & his Old Guard literally meet in dark boardrooms,” Martha Rogers wrote. The battle has split Martha Rogers, her sister Melinda Rogers-Hixon and their mother Loretta Rogers from Edward Rogers, who has the support of long-time family advisers and Rogers directors Phil Lind and Alan Horn. In one of her tweets, Martha Rogers suggested the boardroom battle was like Game of Thrones.
director Martha Rogers took aim publicly at her fellow director and brother Edward Rogers and his “Old Guard puppet masters” in a series of tweets on the weekend that called for her brother to step down as the chair of the family trust that controls Canada’s largest wireless carrier.Ī bitter family feud has engulfed Rogers following an attempt by Edward Rogers to replace chief executive officer Joe Natale with the company’s chief financial officer, Tony Staffieri, and oust other executives.
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