Suran Goonatilake

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]

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

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][3] whose software is used by banks and the stock exchanges around the world to detect complex ‘patterns’ of insider-dealing and money laundering. 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 [4]

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.[5]

Fashion

He founded the Centre for Fashion Enterprise[6] in London a non-profit initiative that finances and nurtures high-growth fashion designers in London.[7] This initiative pioneered a new model of building luxury fashion companies and drew upon practises from technology start-ups, film and music industries.[8] Famous alumni include Erdem Moralıoğlu, Marios Schwab,[9] 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.[10] The film was distributed independently via The Really Honest Little Distribution Company [11] and premiered as the closing film to the 2006 London Raindance Film Festival.[12]

In 2007 he was the executive producer for Luxury Unveiled,[13][14] 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. https://,www.businesswire.com/news/home/20030324005449/en/Searchspace-Launches-Generation-Anti-Money-Laundering-Software
  3. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/searchspace
  4. Pathak, Shareen (2012-07-05). "Creativity 50:Suran Goonatilake, CEO, Bodymetrics". Ad Age. Retrieved 2017-06-22.
  5. "'Doing things that cannot be done'". www.sundaytimes.lk. Retrieved 2017-11-23.
  6. http://www.fashion-enterprise.com
  7. Foroohar, Rana (2005-07-24), "No-profit zone", Newsweek, retrieved 2017-11-23
  8. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320957531_Why_can%27t_fashion_be_more_like_the_music_business
  9. http://showstudio.com/contributor/marios_schwab
  10. "Scenes of a Sexual Nature", British Films Directory, British Council, 2006-11-09, retrieved 2017-11-23
  11. "Tin Pan Films". Retrieved 2017-06-22.
  12. Bellos, Alex (2006-10-13). "Did you say minimum wage?". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-06-16.
  13. http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/luxury-unveiled/episodes/392170/
  14. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2708680/
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