Rhythmone PLC (fka BLNKF)

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Suranga Chandratillake, 30

Chief executive of Blinkx The Sri Lankan-born Suranga Chandratillake spun out Blinkx, his video search system, from the Cambridge data sorting firm Autonomy last year and floated it on the Alternative Investment Market. Chandratillake spotted that the trend in internet searches was shifting from text to video and audio. Blinkx makes money by taking a small slice of advertising income from the likes of Reuters and ITN for pointing internet users towards their websites. Some 18.5m hours of video are indexed. But Chandratillake will have to work harder to convince investors of his vision. Blinkx’s share price has fallen by two-thirds.