TiVo CEO juggles life, work on 2 coasts
Company head commutes between Calif., New York
Twice a week, Tom Rogers gets on a plane to commute between his home in Harrison, N.Y., and his job in Silicon Valley.As president and chief executive officer of TiVo — the company that made digital video recorders popular — Rogers needs to be in California four days a week. But when he took the job in 2005, he made no secret of his plans to keep his home base in New York.
Born in Scarsdale, N.Y., Rogers has a life that's not easily transplanted.
His wife, Sylvia, owns a local indoor play center in Port Chester, N.Y. ("She's probably better known locally than I am," he said.), and two of his three children go to school there."
We sat down as a family and talked about it, and everybody in the end was supportive of seeing if we could make it work," Rogers said. "It helped that my kids were enormous TiVo fans."
He's in rare air. Alan E. Pisarski, the Virginia-based transportation consultant and author of "Commuting in America," said he's never heard of anyone with a commute like Rogers'.
"He probably has the record for the longest commute in the country by a lot," Pisarski said........
.........Every night, the family holds a conference call that includes his son in Boston and his wife and two younger children in Harrison.
"Everybody gets on the phone, and we have 45 minutes or so of everybody talking about their day and what's going on. We've been doing that for two years," he said. "It's a remarkable way to keep the family dynamics going."
Sylvia Rogers said the couple long ago learned to balance career and time for each other. It was during their courtship that Tom took the job on Capitol Hill while she stayed in New York.
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