Ted Rogers

Ted Rogers, founder of Canada's largest cable-television and mobile-phone company and owner of the Toronto Blue Jays' baseball team. Bespectacled, tall and sandy-haired, Rogers was known as a workaholic, a demanding boss and a stubborn leader. Rogers' investment in wireless turned into Canada's largest cell phone company. Today Rogers Communications employs 24,000 people and is worth about 18 billion Canadian dollars. Rogers Communications' other assets include Maclean's and Chatelaine magazines and Rogers Centre, home of the Blue Jays. The company bought the club in 2000 and Rogers Centre, formerly known as the SkyDome, several years later. The list of potential CEOs is headed by Ted Rogers' son Edward, president of Rogers Cable, and daughter Melinda, a vice president of the corporation.