Sarah Binder is currently General Counsel, Corporate Secretary & Head of Insurance at Lime, having joined Lime in May 2021. Sarah manages teams across the Legal, Compliance, Insurance & Safety functions who are located in 9 different countries & 9 different US states. The Legal, Compliance, Insurance & Safety function provides advice to Lime’s businesses in 40 countries in Europe, Middle East, North America and Australia & New Zealand.

Previously Sarah was a member of the executive leadership team for Yum! Brands in Europe and the UK where she was most recently the Chief Development Officer responsible for growing the Pizza Hut franchise to 1,400 restaurants in 28 countries & leading the Pizza Hut response to the Covid-19 pandemic including the Feed the NHS partnership with Deliveroo. Sarah joined Yum! Brands in 2018 as the General Counsel for the UK & European Pizza Hut business.

Sarah studied at the London School of Economics, graduating with a 1st class joint honors degree in Government and History. Sarah started her corporate career as a corporate M&A attorney at Clifford Chance where she practiced for 4 years in London and the Middle East. She subsequently worked at British Telecom for 6 years in a number of roles acting for BT on multi-million-pound acquisitions, disposals & joint ventures as well as creating and then operating the legal and compliance function at Plusnet. In her final role at BT Sarah was Head of Privacy Law and Data Protection Officer for EE, the UK’s largest mobile phone company.
Sarah also acted as local councilor for Wandsworth Council in London.