Feliks Lukas is a highly experienced sports entrepreneur who has successfully organized 65 professional tennis tournaments and leads his team of young professionals as CEO of Lukas Sport.

Mr. Lukas is the Founder and CEO of Time Tennis, a revolutionary sports league that aspires to become a new global sport, a natural evolution of tennis, and with its innovative, exciting new rules of play, offers much more efficient use of existing tennis infrastructure, but also more equality for the entire vertical of Time Tennis stakeholders, partners and investors with an unprecedented focus on ESG and SRI.

Mr. Lukas dedicated his career in the sports industry to finding a way to make an elite mainstream sport like tennis more affordable for young and aspiring tennis players. More than 3,500 tennis players from 72 countries and 6 continents have participated in events organised and managed by Lukas Sport. Lukas is the WTA promoter and tournament director of the WTA Makarska Open, the largest event in women’s sports in Southeastern Europe, which is a flagship event for the Women’s Tennis Association in this region. Mr. Lukas was elected to the Supervisory Board of the Croatian Tennis Federation and his events are under the patronage of the President of the Republic of Croatia and the Ministry of Sports and Tourism of the Republic of Croatia.

Mr. Lukas has a Master’s degree in Tourism and Hotel Management from the University of Split and his professional success and dissertation “The influence of the choice of market strategy of receptive entrepreneurship on the development of tourism in Croatia” is a reason why he is a guest lecturer at the Faculty of Economics in Split.

Due to his achievements and social commitment, Mr. Lukas was knighted in Vienna by His Imperial Highness Archduke of Austria Charles of Habsburg, head of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. He was also selected for the Council of Europe’s annual Leadership Program and became ALUMNI of the Council of Europe’s School of Political Studies. This year he was invited by representatives of the U.S. Congress to attend the National Prayer Breakfast at the Hilton Hotel in Washington DC, where the President of the United States is the chief guest.