Suran Goonatilake

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Suran Goonatilake
Suran Goonatilake OBE.jpg
Born
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Alma materRoyal 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 his 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 company called Searchspace.[2][non-primary source needed] In May 2005 Searchspace was acquired by Warburg Pincus.

He is the co-founder of several Deep Tech companies, many of which are the result of commercialising research from British Universities [3]

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.[4]

Fashion[]

He founded the Centre for Fashion Enterprise[5] in London a non-profit initiative that finances and nurtures high-growth fashion designers in London.[6] This initiative pioneered a new model of building luxury fashion companies and drew upon practises from technology start-ups, film and music industries.[7] Famous alumni include Erdem Moralıoğlu, Marios Schwab,[8] 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.[9] The film was distributed independently via The Really Honest Little Distribution Company [10] and premiered as the closing film to the 2006 London Raindance Film Festival.[11]

In 2007 he was the executive producer for Luxury Unveiled,[12][13] a documentary TV series on the world's top fashion and luxury brands including Chanel, Tiffany, Dunhill and Cartier.

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. ^ "News". www.businesswire.com.
  3. ^ Pathak, Shareen (2012-07-05). "Creativity 50:Suran Goonatilake, CEO, Bodymetrics". Ad Age. Retrieved 2017-06-22.
  4. ^ "'Doing things that cannot be done'". www.sundaytimes.lk. Retrieved 2017-11-23.
  5. ^ "usurped title". Akunbet. Archived from the original on June 25, 2003. {{cite web}}: Cite uses generic title (help)CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  6. ^ Foroohar, Rana (2005-07-24), "No-profit zone", Newsweek, retrieved 2017-11-23
  7. ^ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320957531_Why_can%27t_fashion_be_more_like_the_music_business
  8. ^ "Marios Schwab | SHOWstudio". showstudio.com.
  9. ^ "Scenes of a Sexual Nature", British Films Directory, British Council, 2006-11-09, retrieved 2017-11-23
  10. ^ "Tin Pan Films". Retrieved 2017-06-22.
  11. ^ Bellos, Alex (2006-10-13). "Did you say minimum wage?". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-06-16.
  12. ^ http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/luxury-unveiled/episodes/392170/
  13. ^ "Luxury Unveiled". May 19, 2006 – via IMDb.
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