William "Chip" Rogers (born May 3, 1968) is the President and CEO of the American Hotel & Lodging Association and past President and CEO of Asian American Hotel Owners Association, the largest hotel owners association in the United States. Rogers is a former American politician from the state of Georgia. He is a Republican and was first elected in 2002 to the Georgia House of Representatives, in 2004 he was elected to the Georgia State Senate. Rogers was elected Senate Majority Leader in 2008 and again in 2010. In November 2012 Rogers resigned his position as Senate Majority Leader, and in December, he resigned his position in the state Senate. He took up the position of host and Executive Producer of the statewide Georgia Public Broadcasting radio program Georgia Works. After being fired from that position, he became the President of AAHOA. Biography Education Rogers graduated from North Gwinnett High School in 1986 and from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science Degree and a certificate in Economics in 1991. He then attended the Georgia State University's J. Mack Robinson College of Business, graduating with an MBA. Family Born of a us navy household, one of 2 sons of Gene Rogers, a US Navy veteran and skilled fisherman. Rogers and his wife Amy have four children. Career before politics Chip Rogers founded Rogers Broadcasting in the early 1990s, which later became Rogers Communications. The company held interests in a radio station and real estate. During the 1990s Rogers worked for a number of metro Atlanta radio stations including as an anchor for WBHF. Rogers purchased radio station WYXC, located in the Atlanta suburb of Cartersville, GA, in 1999. He owned and operated the radio station for six years, selling WYXC to Clarion Communications in 2005. Rogers acquired sole ownership of Clarion Communications in December 2012 and immediately entered into a lease management agreement with Newstalk corporation to operate WYXC. Before entering politics, Rogers appeared in infomercials for a sports handicapping service, portraying “Will 'The Winner' Rogers”. They promoted a "pay-per-call number" to receive football predictions. Rogers said the media stories on the topic were "gutter politics", that the work was scripted, and that he was not a sports handicapper. Rogers was also involved in a civil suit and counter suit with Bartow County Bank over a loan on the Oglethorpe Inn, after Rogers and his partner sold