Suranga Chandratillake
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| Born | 1977 Kandy, Sri Lanka |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge, England |
| Occupation | Founder and CEO of blinkx.com |
Suranga Chandratillake (born 1977 in Kandy, Sri Lanka) is the founder and CEO of blinkx.com,[1] an Internet search engine for video and audio content. He is also a director of Pinball Corporation[2], a firm which acquired some of the assets of Zango.
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Prior to founding blinkx, Chandratillake held a variety of roles in technology, sales and marketing at Morgan Stanley, netdecisions and anondesign. He was also the US Chief Technology Officer of Autonomy Corporation, responsible for growing Autonomy's research and development division in the United States. Suranga Chandratillake founded blinkx in 2004 and launched the company in 2005. He took blinkx public on the London Stock Exchange on May 22, 2007. On April 8, 2011, Chandratillake and blinkx announced the acquisition of Burst Media, an online media and technology company headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts.
Chandratillake has spoken at industry events including the Financial Times' Digital Media Conference, Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival and the Monaco Media Forum. Named a Young Global Leader Honoree in 2009 by the World Economic Forum, Chandratillake has also been recognized as a leader in Science and Innovation by The Observer's Future 500 list, and one of Digital Media Wire's "25 Executives to Watch in Digital Entertainment".[3][4][5]
Chandratillake holds a Master of Arts in Computer Science, specializing in distributed processing architectures, from the University of Cambridge, where he also received a double first in Computer Science and Mathematics.
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- ^ "Reuters Summit - Blinkx eyes place on UK's YouView". Reuters. 2 December 2010. http://in.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-53285720101201. Retrieved 27 December 2010.
- ^ Washington State Corporations Division - Registration Data Search PINBALL CORP. UBI Number 602918125
- ^ "World Economic Forum Announces New Batch Of Young Global Leaders (Mark Zuckerberg, Chad Hurley, Kevin Rose And More)". TechCrunch. 25 February 2009. http://techcrunch.com/2009/02/25/world-economic-forum-announces-new-batch-of-young-global-leaders-mark-zuckerberg-chad-hurley-kevin-rose-and-more/.
- ^ "Suranga Chandratillake, CEO of blinkx, Nominated Young Global Leader 2009 by The World Economic Forum". blinkx.com. 26 February 2009. http://www.blinkx.com/article/suranga-chandratillake-ceo-blinkx-nominated-young-global-leader~957.
- ^ "2009 "25 Digital Entertainment Executives to Watch"". Digital Media Insider. 11 December 2008. http://www.digitalmediainsider.com/25.2009.html.
