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Gen Fukunaga

American engineer

Gen Fukunaga (福永元, Fukunaga Gen; born March 22, 1962) is an American engineer and entrepreneur. He established Funimation (now Crunchyroll, LLC), a company that distributes anime in Canada and the United States.²

From Wikipedia’s article on Gen Fukunaga (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born Mar 21, 1962.¹

About

He was its president and chairman until he stepped down in 2019. As of October 2011, Fukunaga was chairman of online video game publisher GameSamba.

From Wikipedia’s article on Gen Fukunaga, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.²

Companies

Crunchyroll, LLCFounder¹¹

Early life and education

Date not recordedPurdue University³
Date not recordedWest Lafayette Junior-Senior High School³
Date not recordedColumbia Business School³

Career

Occupation: entrepreneur, engineer.⁶

Date not recordedWorked at IBM⁴
Date not recordedFounded Crunchyroll, LLC⁵

Personal life

BornMar 21, 1962, Itami⁷
CitizenshipUnited States⁸
ResidenceRoanoke⁹

Fukunaga is married to Cindy Brennan, who also was a co-founder and former executive producer at Funimation, and they have three children. He has one sister.