Teruo Funahashi joins Teejay Board

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Teruo Funahashi

Teejay Lanka PLC has appointed Teruo Funahashi to its Board as a Non-Executive Director.

Funahashi graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Law from the Seijo University of Japan in March 1986. After his graduation, he joined Toray Industries, Inc., which is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Japan and is a substantial shareholder of Pacific Textiles Holdings Ltd.

He began his career at the Tetoron Staple Fibre Department of Toray responsible for sales from April 1986 to June 1998. He was then assigned to the position of Marketing Manager of P.T. Indonesia Toray Synthetics, a subsidiary of Toray in Indonesia, responsible for sales of nylon filament in July 1998 and worked in such post up to July 2003.

Funahashi subsequently held various management positions in Toray and its subsidiary, including being the Manager of the Filament Department of Toray from August 2003 to December 2011, Director for Sales and Procurement Logistics of Toray Fibres (Nantong) Co., Ltd. in Jiangsu, China from January 2012 to August 2017, the General Manager of Industrial Materials Department of Toray from September 2017 to March 2018, and the General Manager of fibre Division of Toray from April 2018 to June 2020.

From June 2020 to March 2026, he serves as the Managing Director of Toray Industries (H.K.) Ltd. and Toray Industries (South China) Co., Ltd., both being subsidiaries of Toray in Hong Kong, as well as the Deputy Managing Director of Toray Industries (China) Co., Ltd. which is a subsidiary of Toray in Shanghai, China. From 1 April 2026, he will join Pacific Textiles as an executive Director, the Chairman of the Board and the Chief Executive Officer.