Gen Fukunaga
| Gen Fukunaga | |
|---|---|
| Born |
福永 元 (Fukunaga Gen?) March 22, 1962 Itami, Hyōgo, Japan |
| Residence | Roanoke, Texas |
| Education |
Purdue University Columbia Business School |
| Occupation | Founder and President of FUNimation |
| Years active | 1989–present |
| Spouse(s) | Cindy Brennan |
Gen Fukunaga (ゲン フクナガ? Fukunaga Gen, born 22 March 1962) is a Japanese American entrepreneur who is the founder and president of Funimation, a company that distributes anime in the United States and Canada. As of October 2011, Fukunaga was named chairman of online video game publisher GameSamba.
Fukunaga was born in Itami, Hyōgo, Japan, and grew up in West Lafayette, Indiana in the United States. He graduated from West Lafayette High School in 1979.
Fukunaga attended Purdue University where he got his BSEE in 1982 and his MSEE in 1984. He later moved to Boca Raton, Florida to work as an engineer for IBM. He then attended Columbia Business School, obtaining an MBA in 1989. He held a position with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) before getting a job with Tandem Computers in Sunnyvale, California.
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