Chintaka Ranatunga

Chintaka has decades of strategic business experience gained in executive leadership roles including Chief Operating Officer, Founder and Board member. He is passionate about advising New Zealand’s sharpest founders on how to achieve global growth.

His deep expertise in corporate development led to him becoming a respected authority on investing in and acquiring companies. Having invested in over 60 startups as an angel investor, Chintaka is an expert on setting businesses up for success at the outset.

Chintaka plays an invaluable role in mentoring GD1’s founders and portfolio companies to believe bigger; and to operationalise excellence.