Sarah Willingham

In January 2016, Willingham was named one of The Sunday Times' '500 Most Influential people in Britain'. In 2017 Willingham received an honorary doctorate from Staffordshire University and in 2018 she received honorary doctorates from Cranfield University and Oxford Brookes University in recognition of her outstanding contribution to business and entrepreneurship.

In September 2016, Willingham took part in a celebrity episode of The Chase.

In March 2015, Willingham was named as one of the new "Dragons" on the BBC television programme Dragons' Den from the thirteenth series which began airing in July 2015. She returned to Dragons' Den for the fourteenth series, beginning in July 2016.

In July 2012, Willingham launched a money-saving website called letssavemoney, a free to use money saving website which aimed to help people take control of their time and be smart with their money, encouraging users to take action through one-minute guides to various aspects of money saving. With growing children and lack of editorial resource Sarah Willingham closed down Letssavemoney in 2018.

In 2010, Willingham invested in the London Cocktail Club. The first cocktail bar opened in 2011 on Goodge Street, London. In February 2012 the London Cocktail Club added their second cocktail bar on Shaftesbury Avenue, Their third opened in Great Portland Street, London in 2013. There are now eight bars with their latest opening in Bristol in September 2018

In April 2008, she helped co-establish a private equity platform in the UK.

Management Today and The Sunday Times acknowledged her as one of the "35 most successful women under 35" in the UK. In 2007 she was voted one of the "Courvoisier Top 500" and American Express "Spokesperson for Small Business Saturday 2013".

Willingham has two business degrees from Oxford Brookes University and the École supérieure de commerce de La Rochelle. In 2004 she completed an MBA at 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 expanded the company from six restaurant locations to seventeen, making it the largest Indian restaurant chain in the United Kingdom. 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.

Sarah Louise Willingham (born 21 December 1973) is a British entrepreneur, investor and consumer champion best known for her management of high-street restaurants such as Planet Hollywood and Pizza Express and her tenure as a "Dragon" on the thirteenth and fourteenth series of Dragons' Den.