Thomas Gary Rogers (June 5, 1942 – May 2, 2017) was an American entrepreneur and executive who acquired and built Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream into a major company.
[1] He attended Harvard Business School with Bob Haas who preceded him as Chairman of Levi Strauss.
[3] He became chairman of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco for a term beginning January 1, 2009.
[4] He was also the chairman of Safeway Inc.[5] Rogers purchased Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream with his business partner, Rick Cronk, for $1 million in 1977.
He was the CEO and he and Cronk were managers and principal shareholders of Dreyer's for almost 30 years, until the company was acquired by Nestlé in 2006 for $3.2 billion.