Touker Suleyman joined the Dragons' Den panel in series 13 after building a career in fashion and retail.
Suleyman became a dragon in the thirteenth series of the BBC programme. He is a British-Turkish-Cypriot entrepreneur whose business career has included clothing manufacturing, fashion brands and retail investments. His background gave the panel a specialist in product sourcing, consumer brands and high-street distribution.
He is associated with the acquisition and development of fashion businesses, including the clothing label Hawes & Curtis. Suleyman also became chairman of Low Profile Group, a fashion and manufacturing company. These experiences shaped the kinds of questions he asked entrepreneurs about production, pricing and routes to market.
Series numbers can be confusing because the programme has changed its panel repeatedly and series have often been broadcast across several months. Suleyman's arrival belongs to series 13, not the later series that introduced Steven Bartlett. He is also distinct from Nick Jenkins, another investor whose background was in online retail and who appeared on the panel around the same period.