Tej Lalvani joined the regular Dragon's Den panel in 2017 after building a career in the health-food industry.
Lalvani is a British businessman who became chief executive of Vitabiotics, the company founded by his father, Kartar Lalvani. Vitabiotics develops and sells vitamin and nutritional supplement products, including well-known brands such as Wellman and Pregnacare.
He joined Dragon's Den for its fifteenth series in 2017. His experience differed from that of investors primarily known for property, fashion, or technology because it came from managing and expanding a large consumer health business. That perspective shaped the types of companies and products he evaluated on the programme.
The timing is easy to confuse with Touker Suleyman's arrival. Suleyman joined the panel in 2015, while Tej Lalvani became a Dragon in 2017. Lalvani left the regular panel after the 2022 series.