Suranga Chandratillake FREng CEng FBCS

Founder, President and Chief Strategy Officer blinkx plc

Photo of Suranga Chandratillake FREng CEng FBCSSuranga Chandratillake has created the world’s premier video search company, blinkx, which is valued at £500m, before his 35th birthday. The young entrepreneur, exceptional engineer and leader is regarded as an expert on the convergence of the Web and television and online advertising. Named a Young Global Leader Honoree in 2009 by the World Economic Forum, and won the Academy’s Silver Medal this year. He is also renowned for designing Autonomy’s massively scaleable and extremely profitable data mining solutions as well as his contribution to multimedia content discovery – one of the internet’s greatest challenges. He won a Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal this year for his technical and business achievements.

 

 

Updated August 2012

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