VANC Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced that Mr. Bob Rai has been appointed as Interim Chief Executive Officer of VANC effective immediately. Mr. Rai has been a director of theCompany since June 2015. Mr. Rai is a graduate of the University of British Columbia with Bachelor of Science Degrees in Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Science. Mr. Rai recently operated a chain of The Medicine Shoppe Pharmacies in Greater Vancouver for the past 21 years, he has had several successful entrepreneurial and charitable endeavors. In 1998 Mr. Mr. Rai is also Chairman and CEO of Canada Pacific Global Pharmaceuticals and Chairman of its subsidiary, PharmaCanada Inc.