James Kenneth Gray O.C., A.O.E. was born in

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in 1933. He was educated at

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in St. Catharines, Canada. He came to

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in 1956 to pursue a career in

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's energy sector. In 1973, he co-founded Canadian Hunter Exploration, an organization that became one of Canada's largest and most successful natural gas companies." Gray has served as an independent director of

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(an

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listed company) since April 1997. He is also a director emeritus of

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, director of Phoenix Technology Services, and Honorary Chair of the

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. In 2019, Gray joined the Ad Hoc Committee of Calgary Citizens, which requested that Calgary's Green Line transit project be paused. Gray was recognized in 2002 with the

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* Businesspeople from Calgary 1933 births Living people People from Kirkland Lake Members of the Alberta Order of Excellence {{Canada-business-bio-stub