Jeff Silver

Jeff Silver supervised safety research and development at the General Motors Proving Ground from 1966 to 1973 and was involved with I-CAR from its founding in 1979, when he was vice president of business development at Applied Power/Blackhawk. He served as I-CAR’s chief staff executive from the mid-1980s until 1996, a period that saw the start of the Gold Class program, and he drove the creation of the Collision Repair Education Foundation in 1991. He and his wife, Jeanne, a 2015 inductee, then opened CARSTAR Mundelein-Butterfield in Illinois and ran it until 2021. He served on the Hall of Eagles Board of Governors from 2005 until his death, and I-CAR has presented the Jeff Silver Award since 2009. He died in September 2022 at 80.