Today, the B.C. government announced the appointment of Walter Gray as the new chair for ICBC’s board of directors. He will begin his new role as chair on Nov. 30, 2014.

Gray is the outgoing Mayor of Kelowna, having served numerous terms totalling 16 years, as well as serving as a city councillor prior to serving as mayor.

Before his time at City Hall, he was the owner and operator of five radio stations in the Okanagan/Kootenay areas, including 96.3 FM
Radio Station and Four Seasons Radio Ltd. He was a director of Sun Country Cablevision Ltd. which is based in Salmon Arm, Armstrong and Enderby as well as a director of FortisBC. He is a former director of BC Transit, Telefilm Canada, Hall and Gray Broadcasting and Sun
Country Properties, and he is a past president of the BC Association
of Broadcasters.