Suranga Chandratillake OBE FREng (born October 1977[1] in Kandy, Sri Lanka[2]) is the founder and former CEO of blinkx,[3] the San Francisco-based video search and advertising company[4] which later became RhythmOne.
[5][6] Prior to founding blinkx, Chandratillake held a variety of roles in technology, sales and marketing at Morgan Stanley, netdecisions and anondesign.
[7] Chandratillake holds an MA in Computer Science from King's College, Cambridge; specializing in distributed processing architectures, he received a double first.
The spinout followed an internal project that Chandratillake set up to develop software that would index and find information at a desktop level.
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".