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Top 100 Asian Stars in UK Tech 2015

Suran Goonatilake
Co-Founder & CEO - Bodymetrics
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. 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 buyout 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.

Imran Hakim
CEO - Hakim Group
Beginning his journey trading IT equipment whilst at still at school, Imran went on to complete
his BSc Hons in Optometry and Vision Science at the University of Manchester Institute of
Science and Technology before earning his spot as one of the UK’s most innovative and vibrant
young Entrepreneurs. Imran came into the media eye in 2007 when he appeared on BBC2’s
Dragon’s Den TV show with iTeddy - a 21st century teddy bear. Having successfully secured
investment, Imran joined forces with Peter Jones and Theo Paphitis to create one of the
biggest commercial successes the den has seen to date with the multi award-winning teddy
bear which won him the World Toy Innovation award in 2008. Imran currently sits as CEO of
Hakim Group whose core business activities remain within the optical industry.

Anuraag Jain
Chief Technology Officer - IntelliQ
Anuraag Jain is currently the Chief Technology Officer at IntelliQ, the leading provider of profit
protection forensic analysis solutions to the retail industry. Anuraag has more than 14 years of
IT experience and expertise in online transactional, e-commerce websites. He was the first IT
person to join Betfair and designed their betting engine and database - this led to company
going from £1 Million to £1.6 Billion valuation in less than 5 years. More recently he was the
CTO of The Hut Group, the company which provides innovative solutions to the retail industry
and is behind the thehut.com, zavvi.com, ASDA Entertainment and Argos Entertainment.
The Hut Group was No. 1 in Sunday Times ‘Fast Track Tech 100’ companies in 2009. Previous
employers include Betfair, SISL, TCS, Pinnacle Sports. An economics graduate from the
University of Mumbai, he also holds a postgraduate qualification in computer programming
from the Boston Computer Institute.

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