Suran Goonatilake


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

Suran Goonatilake, OBE is a Sri Lankan born British entrepreneur. He is the CEO and co-founder of Bodymetrics, a company that grew out of body-scanning research at University College London (UCL). As a PhD student at UCL, Suran co-founded a Big-Data company called Searchspace (renamed Fortent and then acquired by Actimize) whose software is used by global banks and the London Stock Exchange. In May 2005 Searchspace was acquired by Warburg Pincus, a buy-out fund. Suran also co-founded the Centre for Fashion Enterprise, a non-profit initiative that finances and nurtures high-growth fashion designers in London.

He was educated at Royal College Colombo and the University of Sussex. He completed his higher studies at the University College London gaining his PhD. In 2005, Suran was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queen's birthday honours list for his services to Entrepreneurship.

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