Sahar founded Coffee Republic, the UK’s first US style coffee bar chain with her brother and built it into one of the UK’s most recognised high street brands with a turnover of £30m. Giving up a highly professional job as a lawyer, she staked everything on a dream – and made Coffee Republic one of the main players in ‘the coffee revolution’ that transformed a nation of tea drinkers into one obsessed with ‘triple decaf half-caf lattes.

Sahar has also written a bestselling book called ‘Anyone Can Do It – Building Coffee Republic from our Kitchen table’. It’s a personal story about two people who stopped ‘thinking about it’ and ‘did it’ and has reached number 1 on the Amazon business chart. In 2005 she launched Skinny Candy, a high profile brand of sugar free sweets.