The president and CEO of the BC Lottery Corporation will be taking a medical leave after being diagnosed with cancer.

Jim Lightbody will be undergoing treatment starting in mid September; he’s been the head of BCLC since January of 2014 and has spent 18 years with the corporation.

The board of directors says board member Greg Moore will step down from the board to take on the position as acting president and CEO in Lightbody’s absence. Moore is a former 10-year mayor of Port Coquitlam and was chair of the Metro Vancouver regional district for seven years.

Moore will stay in the Lower Mainland in his interim position, but the corporation says he’ll go back-and-forth between Kamloops and Vancouver.