Tamer Hassan

Why organisations work with Tamer Hassan

• His acting career gives him immediate name recognition with audiences, with credits across The Football Factory, Layer Cake, Batman Begins, Kick-Ass, Clash of the Titans, Eastern Promises and Game of Thrones, which is useful for headline slots and mixed-audience events where draw matters.
• He has built a parallel business career rather than a vanity one, as Director of the NASDAQ-listed Lottery.com since June 2023 and President of Sports.com Studios since June 2025, giving him a live operator’s view of the economics of sport, content and media.
• The hospitality and nightlife background, including his investment in Karma Sanctum Soho alongside Paul Oakenfold, is the foundation of a reinvention story that is specific, commercial and not sanitised.
• He brings an unusual mix to panel and Q&A formats: a performer’s comfort in a room, an investor’s view on deal structures, and a sharp commercial instinct sharpened by running hospitality businesses in London.
• His philanthropic profile, including support for Covid-19 frontline workers and Turkey-Syria earthquake relief, gives him useful credibility in charitable and fundraising contexts where a recognised name is required.

Biography highlights

• British actor of Turkish Cypriot heritage, career spanning 25-plus years in film and television
• Screen credits include The Football Factory, Layer Cake, The Business, Batman Begins, Eastern Promises, Kick-Ass, Clash of the Titans, Game of Thrones and Snatch
• Director of Lottery.com Inc. (NASDAQ: LTRY) since June 2023
• President of Sports.com Studios since June 2025, leading Lottery.com’s film, docuseries and original programming output
• Co-owner of Karma Sanctum Soho, the boutique London hotel developed with DJ Paul Oakenfold
• Active in philanthropic fundraising, including Covid-19 frontline worker support and Turkey-Syria earthquake relief

Biography

A career that began in London amateur boxing and hospitality has ended up, so far, on the board of a NASDAQ-listed company and at the front of a new sports content studio. Tamer Hassan’s reinvention story is the point of the speaking work, and it is specific enough to hold an audience because each stage was paid for by the one before.

He was born in New Cross in 1968 to a Turkish Cypriot family and came through the south-east London small-business world before acting. His breakthrough role, as the leader of the Millwall firm in The Football Factory opposite Danny Dyer, set the tone for a 25-year screen career that has since included Layer Cake, The Business, Batman Begins, Eastern Promises, Kick-Ass, Clash of the Titans, Game of Thrones and Snatch.

Alongside the acting, he kept building businesses. Karma Sanctum Soho, the boutique Soho hotel he co-developed with Paul Oakenfold, gave him a base in hospitality and a reputation in London’s night-time economy. Since June 2023 he has been a director of Lottery.com Inc. (NASDAQ: LTRY), and in June 2025 he was appointed President of its Sports.com Studios division, leading the company’s new film, docuseries and original programming strategy.

For event audiences the draw is the combination. Few speakers can discuss a long screen career and an operator role at a listed company in the same session, with a personal story that runs from London boxing gyms to Turkey-Syria earthquake fundraising. The value is in the trajectory, and in the unguarded way he tends to explain it, rather than in a named intellectual framework.

Key speaking topics

• Reinvention and career change under public scrutiny
• Entrepreneurship in hospitality, film and media
• The business of sport and content
• Brand, profile and personal reputation
• Philanthropy and the role of public figures in charitable causes

Ideal for

• Corporate leadership conferences and client events looking for a recognisable headline speaker with a commercial story
• Entrepreneurship and founder-focused forums, particularly in hospitality, sport and media
• Awards dinners, galas and after-dinner slots where draw and warmth in the room matter more than a technical keynote
• Charitable and fundraising events seeking a high-profile voice with a track record of personal involvement

Audience outcomes

• A concrete reference case for reinventing a career and brand across industries under public visibility
• Direct reflections on risk, failure and recovery from someone who has operated in hospitality, film and listed-company environments
• Insight into how the commercial mechanics of sport, content and media are changing, from an operator inside a new studio
• The benefit of a recognisable name in the room for audience engagement and post-event conversation