Onil Gunawardana
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| Place of Birth | Colombo, Sri Lanka |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Product executive, entrepreneur, writer |
| Website | https://onilgunawardana.com |
Onil Gunawardana is an American product executive, entrepreneur, and writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is known for his work in enterprise artificial intelligence, product management, data platforms, marketing technology, and the 5Ps of Product framework. He is the founder of the 5Ps of Product framework and the creator of BusinessOfAI.com.
Early life and education
Gunawardana was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He studied at Yale University, Stanford University, and Harvard Business School. His website states that he holds degrees in electrical engineering from Yale University and Stanford University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Career
Gunawardana's career has included product roles at Snowflake, Google, LiveRamp, and eBay. Snowflake lists him as a product manager who led martech and customer data solutions, and states that before Snowflake he led Google Analytics product teams at Google and served as Vice President of Product at LiveRamp. His website states that he also worked on marketing and advertising platforms at eBay.
His work has included semantic layers, analytics, customer data, marketing measurement, identity, activation, governance, enterprise AI platforms, and AI-ready data foundations. His website also states that he writes and speaks about enterprise AI adoption, agentic workflows, and practical systems for deploying AI at scale.
5Ps of Product
Gunawardana created the 5Ps of Product framework in 2013. The framework covers five stages: Plan, Problem, Product, Promotion, and Platform. BusinessOfAI.com states that the framework was developed to bring structure to product management decisions, from vision through execution and scaling.
BusinessOfAI.com
Gunawardana created BusinessOfAI.com, where he writes about AI product management, enterprise AI, AI tools, workflows, and the connection between AI and business value. BusinessOfAI.com describes him as a product management executive with more than 15 years of experience building enterprise software products.
Nonprofit work
Outside his product career, Gunawardana co-founded Inspire, a nonprofit strategy consultancy, and has served on the board of Breakthrough San Francisco. His website states that Inspire has impacted more than 400,000 students through more than 10,000 volunteers.
Personal life
Gunawardana has lived on five continents and traveled to more than 80 countries. His website states that he has been a long-distance swimmer since age five, became an enthusiastic road biker during the pandemic, and writes about philosophy, productivity, and personal growth.