Prior to retirement, T. Rogers Wade was President and CEO of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation from 1997 through 2009. He is currently Chairman of the Board of Trustees of that organization and senior partner of Capitolink Inc.
Before joining the Foundation, Rogers Wade was a senior partner in the public affairs firm of Edington, Wade and Associates, with offices in Atlanta and Washington, D.C. He has been an active member of the Georgia business and political community for over 40 years and served as chief of staff to Senator Herman E. Talmadge in Washington, from 1973 through 1980. Upon returning to Georgia, he was named vice president of Watkins Associated Industries, a national company with major holdings in transportation, development, seafood processing, insurance and communications.
In 1985 he opened the Atlanta offices of Edington, Wade and Associates representing over half of the Fortune 100 companies from throughout the United States and Europe. He was a founding member of Leadership Georgia in 1972 and in 2010 he was asked by Governor Nathan Deal to serve as Chairman of his Transition Team. He is a member of the Board of Regents of the University Systems of Georgia and serves currently on the boards of the Georgia Research Alliance, the Georgia Trucking Association, the U.S.O., the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, the MILRA, is a Trustee of the Richard B. Russell Foundation and is Chairman of the Governor’s Defense Initiative. He has also been active on the boards of the Gordon College Foundation, the P.A.G.E. Foundation, the Fanning Leadership Institute of the University of Georgia and the Advisory Board of the School of Engineering at the University of Georgia. He has received the Blue Key Service Award from the UGA Chapter of the Blue Key National Honor Society and was the 2011 recipient of the Public Policy Foundation's Freedom Award. He attended the University of Georgia, was a member of Alpha Tau Omega and the Demosthenian Literary Society. While there, he met his future wife of over half a century, the former Marcia Bryan, of Tampa Florida.
Rogers is a member of the Rotary Club of Atlanta and he and his wife are long time residents of Sandy Springs.
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