Touker Suleyman joined the UK Dragons' Den panel in 2015 and built a career in fashion and retail.
Suleyman is a British-Turkish entrepreneur whose business activities have included clothing manufacturing, fashion brands and retail companies. He became a dragon during the thirteenth series of the BBC programme, joining a panel that changed as earlier investors departed.
His business background gives him particular interest in supply chains, manufacturing costs, wholesale distribution and the strength of a brand. Those subjects are central to many of the consumer-product pitches presented in the den.
The year 2015 identifies his arrival on the British panel, not the beginning of his business career. Suleyman had already been active in commerce for decades. He is also distinct from James Caan, another former dragon whose investment background was concentrated more heavily in recruitment and services.