Suran Goonatilake, OBE is an academic, entrepreneur and producer. He is a visiting professor at the Department of Computer Science at University College London (UCL).[1]
Suran Goonatilake | |
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| Alma mater | Royal College Colombo University of Sussex University College London |
Background
editHe 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
editIn 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
editHe 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
editIn 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
editGoonatilake 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
edit- ^ "Suran Goonatilake". www.cs.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-06-22.
- ^ "News". www.businesswire.com (Press release).
- ^ Pathak, Shareen (2012-07-05). "Creativity 50:Suran Goonatilake, CEO, Bodymetrics". Ad Age. Retrieved 2017-06-22.
- ^ "'Doing things that cannot be done'". www.sundaytimes.lk. Retrieved 2017-11-23.
- ^ "Centre for Fashion Enterprise". fashion-enterprise.com. Archived from the original on June 25, 2003.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Foroohar, Rana (2005-07-24), "No-profit zone", Newsweek, retrieved 2017-11-23
- ^ Goonatilake, Suran (24 September 2007). "Why can't fashion be more like the music business?". Financial Times (North American edition) – via ResearchGate.
- ^ "Marios Schwab | SHOWstudio". showstudio.com.
- ^ "Scenes of a Sexual Nature", British Films Directory, British Council, 2006-11-09, retrieved 2017-11-23
- ^ "Tin Pan Films". Retrieved 2017-06-22.
- ^ Bellos, Alex (2006-10-13). "Did you say minimum wage?". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-06-16.
- ^ "Luxury Unveiled Episodes | TVGuide.com". www.tvguide.com. Archived from the original on 2017-03-24.
- ^ "Luxury Unveiled". May 19, 2006 – via IMDb.