Two Cranfield MBAs Become Dragons In The Den
The BBC has announced that Cranfield MBA alums Sarah Willingham and Nick Jenkins will join its “Dragons’ Den” show for series 13.
Both Sarah and Nick are active members of the Cranfield alumni community, regularly returning to the campus to offer help and advice to students.
Sarah, who completed the MBA in 2003, bought The Bombay Bicycle Club soon after graduating and turned it into the largest and most successful Indian restaurant chain in the UK before selling it a few years later. Sarah now combines running letssavesomemoney.com, the consumer personal finance website, with a portfolio of business investments.
Nick completed the MBA in 1999 and set up the online greeting card website Moonpig.com in 2000. The business was acquired by Photobox in 2011 and is now the world’s largest personalised greetings card company. Since leaving Moonpig, Nick has been working mainly in the charity sector and has also become involved in some angel investment activity.
Dr. Stephanie Hussels, Director of the Cranfield MBA, said: “We are very proud to have two of our distinguished MBA alumni joining the line-up of Dragons’ Den. Sarah and Nick regularly come back to Cranfield to inspire the new generations of entrepreneurs and with their wealth of knowledge and expertise will be real assets to the show.
Sarah and Nick will join Peter Jones and Deborah Meaden as businessmen and women enter the Den to pitch their ideas in the hope of gaining investment from one of the Dragons.
