Lupin Limited announced the appointment of Mr. Christoph Funke as Chief Technical Operations Officer, effective March 18, 2024. He will be responsible for the technical operations of the Company globally, including manufacturing, supply chain and procurement. Mr. Funke brings over 30 years of global pharmaceutical manufacturing and technical operations experience and expertise.

After completing his engineering studies at South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences in Iserlohn, Germany, in 1993, Mr. Funke began his career as a manufacturing engineer at LuK GmbH & Co. KG (now part of the Schaeffler Group). As he assumed positions of increasing responsibility, he worked with them in Germany, U.S. and the U.K. In 2001, Mr. Funke joined Fresenius Kabi AG.

Over his 20 years with Fresenius, Mr. Funke has managed and led large-scale technical operations and manufacturing networks of 27 sites in 19 countries managing production value of over USD 2 billion and 12,500 employees, including managing the QA/QC, Supply Chain, Procurement, Engineering, Process Development and Finance functions. Mr. Funke has lived and worked most of his professional life outside of Germany and his last assignment since 2021 has been the Chief Operations Officer of Strides Pharma Science at Bangalore, India.