Summer Conference 2026

Sarah is a prominent entrepreneur and serial investor with a career spanning hospitality and consumer facing lifestyle businesses. She has been named among the Sunday Times 500 Most Influential People in Britain, City AM’s 100 Most Influential Entrepreneurs, Courvoisier’s future 500, and is listed in Who’s Who of British Business Leaders.
She is widely known for her roles as a judge on BBC The Restaurant alongside Raymond Blanc and as a Dragon on BBC Dragons’ Den. Sarah co-owned the Bombay Bicycle Club group, growing it to the largest chain of Indian restaurants in the UK and founded Nightcap Group with her husband, which they floated on AIM in 2021, delivering the most successful float on AIM that year before taking it private last year; the business has since acquired the Brighton i360 and continues to expand across the country.
Her early career includes senior roles at Planet Hollywood, PizzaExpress and The Clapham House Group. She is Chair of Tonkotsu and Rockwater.
In 2023, she was named Business Leader of the Year at the prestigious Publican Awards and was awarded Business Weekly’s Young Entrepreneur of the Year.
She continues to invest and runs a wide portfolio of investments across several sectors including The Craft Gin Club, Credit Kudos, Secret Spa, Bubble, Togather and many others.
She holds three business degrees, including an MBA from Cranfield School of Management, and honorary doctorates from Staffordshire University, Oxford Brookes University, and Cranfield University. Sarah lives in Brighton with her husband Michael and their four children.

Tom Kerridge, the award winning and celebrated chef brings a taste of culinary magic to his restaurants, cookbooks and across tv screens up and down the country. A Gloucestershire lad, Tom champions British food and suppliers and has become a leading name in the hospitality industry. From humble beginnings, Tom and his wife Beth built The Hand & Flowers into what it is today, the world’s first and only two Michelin-starred pub. Tom has since launched several more restaurants, penned fourteen best-selling cookbooks, launched the hugely successful music and food festival Pub in the Park, campaigns tirelessly to help end child hunger in the UK with Full Time meals and more recently has established a partnership with M&S Food.

Laura is CEO of London & Partners, the growth agency for London. Our mission is to create economic growth that is resilient, sustainable and inclusive. We drive investment, innovation and entrepreneurship and make London a brilliant destination for visitors and Londoners.
Laura is proud to lead the teams behind flagship brands including Visit London, Let’s Do London, Grow London, London Tech Week, MedCity London, DotLondon and Opportunity London.
Since Laura became CEO, London & Partners has created 42,500 jobs and added £1.9bn to the London economy.
Before joining London & Partners, Laura led the global Government & Public Sector Practice at WPP, the FTSE 100 global leader in marketing and communications.
Laura was awarded an OBE for services to the London economy in June 2024.