New ITMF Board
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During the Annual Conference 2010 of the International Textile Manufacturers Federation (ITMF) in Sao Paulo/Brazil , the Committee of Management of the Federation elected a new Board for the next two years. Mr. Bashir H. Ali Mohammad (Pakistan) was unanimously elected
as the new President of the
Federation. Mr. Josué C. Gomes da Silva (Brazil) and Mr. Tiankai Wang (China) were elected as ITMF Vice Presidents and Mr. Bassem Sultan (Egypt) as ITMF Treasurer.
Mr. Bashir was born on February 6, 1947 and he belongs to a pioneer business family in Pakistan. Currently, he is the chairman of the Gul Ahmed Group . The group includes Gul Ahmed Textile Mills Limited, Gul Ahmed Energy Limited, Metropolitan Bank Limited, Swisstex Chemicals (Pvt) Limited, and Arwen Tech (Pvt) Limited.
Mr. Josué Christiano Gomes da Silva is Chairman and CEO of Companhia de Tecidos Norte de Minas - Coteminas, the biggest textile group in Latin América. Springs Global, a company controlled by Coteminas, is the worldwide leader in the towels and bedding segment, with sales of US$ 2 billion and with industries in several countries of the American continent. Its activities focus mainly on three main segments : fashion bedding, bath products and utility bedding. He is also the President Emeritus of the Brazilian Textile and Apparel Industry
association ABIT
Born in 1946 in Zhejiang China, Mr. Wang graduated from the East China Institute of Textile Science and Technology (now the China
Textile University). He is also the eHe vice-president of the National
Chinese Textile and Apparel Council.
Mr. Bassem Sultan , the newly appointed Honorary Treasurer, was born on July, 31, 1962. He has a Bachelor in Economics , Alexandria University. He is the chairman of DYETEX group , one of the leading modern integrated factories that covers all stages of garments production, starting with manufacturing knitted fabric, dyeing, knitted & woven apparels.