Dimitris is the President of YES - European Confederation of Young Entrepreneurs and the Founder of Virtual Trip, a Start-up Accelerator & Seed Fund in the ICT sector.

He received his diploma in Computer Science from the Department of Computer Science, University of Crete, in January 2001 and his MBA from the Athens University of Economics and Business, Department of Management Science and Technology, in December 2005. In 1998 he was a guest researcher at the Computational Vision and Active Perception Laboratory of the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, while in 1999 and 2000, Dimitris was a member of the Networks & Telecommunications Group at the Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research & Technology, Hellas.

His achievements include:

-Establishment of the first successful IT start-up in Greece, Virtual Trip Ltd [www.vtrip.net] at the Science & Technology Park of Crete in September 2000.
- Spinning-out more than 10 IT start-ups between 2003 and 2011, including a