Suran Goonatilake
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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]
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.