Kelly Hoppen became a Dragon's Den investor in series 11, joining the regular panel in 2013.
Hoppen is a British interior designer and entrepreneur whose design career preceded her television role. Her appointment broadened the panel beyond traditional retail and finance backgrounds, giving the programme an investor with experience in design-led products, branding and luxury markets.
The series number is useful because the panel has changed frequently. Sara Davies and other later investors joined in different years, while Kelly Hoppen's tenure belongs to the early 2010s period of the British show. That makes names and dates particularly easy to confuse.
Dragon's Den presents investors as individual decision-makers rather than as a permanent team. Each dragon can make a solo offer or collaborate with another investor, so panel membership directly affects the range of expertise available to entrepreneurs in a given series.