Sarah Willingham
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| Born |
Sarah Louise Willingham 21 December 1973 Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
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| Occupation | Business entrepreneur, investor and personal finance expert |
| Net worth | £12m |
| Television |
The Restaurant Dragons' Den |
| Spouse(s) | Michael Willingham-Toxvaerd (m. 2008) |
| Children | 4 |
| Website | www |
Sarah Louise Willingham (born 21 December 1973) is a British entrepreneur, investor and personal finance expert. She is best known for her management in high street restaurants such as Planet Hollywood and Pizza Express.
Willingham bought the Bombay Bicycle Club while in partnership with The Clapham House Group. She was able successfully to expand the Bombay Bicycle Club from a chain of six restaurants to a seventeen chain business.
Since 2015, she has appeared in the BBC Two series Dragons' Den.
Willingham has two business degrees from Oxford Brookes University and the École supérieure de commerce de La Rochelle business school in France. In 2004 she completed an MBA from the Cranfield University School of Management.
Having spent the early years of her career managing some restaurants including Chessageed Delights,Planet Hollywood and Pizza Express, Willingham decided to go it alone. In partnership with The Clapham House Group, she bought The Bombay Bicycle Club in 2004, and turned a loss-making chain of 6 restaurants into a profitable chain of 17 restaurants, making it Britain's largest Indian restaurant chain. Willingham sold her share back to The Clapham House Group in 2007 where she continued as a main board director responsible for three of their four brands (Tootsies, The Real Greek and The Bombay Bicycle Club) with over 50 restaurants and more than 1,500 employees.
In 2004, Willingham co-established an AIM-listed company, Neutrahealth plc, which acquired six businesses in the vitamin and mineral supplements industry and was sold to Indian company Elder Pharmaceuticals Ltd in 2011.
In April 2008, she helped co-establish a private equity platform in the UK; .
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