Suran Goonatilake


Suran Goonatilake
Born Colombo, Sri-Lanka
Alma mater Royal College Colombo
University of Sussex
University College London

Suran Goonatilake, OBE is a Sri Lankan born British academic, entrepreneur and producer. He is a visiting professor at the Department of Computer Science at University College London (UCL).[1]

Background

He did undergraduate degree at the University of Sussex in Computing and Artificial Intelligence, followed by a PhD at University College London (UCL) in Machine Learning.

As a student at UCL, Goonatilake, co-founded with three fellow students, a Machine Learning, FinTech company called Searchspace.[2],[3] (renamed Fortent[4] and then acquired by Actimize[5]) whose software is used by banks and the stock exchanges around the world. In May 2005 Searchspace was acquired by Warburg Pincus.

He is the co-founder of Bodymetrics,[6] a company that grew out of body-scanning research at UCL and Kurv.[7]

Entrepreneurship

In 2005, he was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queen's birthday honours list, for his services to Entrepreneurship.[8]

Fashion

He founded the Centre for Fashion Enterprise[9] in London a non-profit initiative that finances and nurtures high-growth fashion designers in London.[10] This initiative pioneered a new model of building luxury fashion companies and drew upon practises from technology start-ups, film and music industries.[11] Famous alumni include Erdem Moralıoğlu, Marios Schwab,[12] Mary Katrantzou, Manish Arora, and JW Anderson.

Film and TV

In 2006, Goonatilake was an executive producer on the romantic comedy, Scenes of a Sexual Nature, directed by Ed Blum and starring Ewan McGregor and Tom Hardy.[13] The film was distributed independently via The Really Honest Little Distribution Company [14] and premiered as the closing film to the 2006 London Raindance Film Festival.[15]

In 2007 he was the executive producer for Luxury Unveiled[16], [17] a documentary reality TV series on the world's top fashion and luxury brands.

Publications

Goonatilake is a co-editor of two books

  • Intelligent Systems for Finance and Business John Wiley & Sons 1995 ISBN 978-0471944041
  • co-edited with Philip Treleaven Intelligent Hybrid Systems John Wiley & Sons 1995 ISBN 978-0471942429

References

  1. ↑ "Suran Goonatilake". www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-06-22.
  2. ↑ https://,www.businesswire.com/news/home/20030324005449/en/Searchspace-Launches-Generation-Anti-Money-Laundering-Software
  3. ↑ https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/searchspace
  4. ↑ https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=7692969
  5. ↑ https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=820839
  6. ↑ Pathak, Shareen (2012-07-05). "Creativity 50:Suran Goonatilake, CEO, Bodymetrics". Ad Age. Retrieved 2017-06-22.
  7. ↑ Volpicelli, Gian (2015-11-25). "Stringless guitar will make for an easy and portable strum". Mail Online. Retrieved 2017-06-22.
  8. ↑ "'Doing things that cannot be done'". www.sundaytimes.lk. Retrieved 2017-11-23.
  9. ↑ http://www.fashion-enterprise.com
  10. ↑ Foroohar, Rana (2005-07-24), "No-profit zone", Newsweek, retrieved 2017-11-23
  11. ↑ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320957531_Why_can%27t_fashion_be_more_like_the_music_business
  12. ↑ http://showstudio.com/contributor/marios_schwab
  13. ↑ "Scenes of a Sexual Nature", British Films Directory, British Council, 2006-11-09, retrieved 2017-11-23
  14. ↑ "Tin Pan Films". Retrieved 2017-06-22.
  15. ↑ Bellos, Alex (2006-10-13). "Did you say minimum wage?". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-06-16.
  16. ↑ http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/luxury-unveiled/episodes/392170/
  17. ↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2708680/
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