Dimitris Fakalos graduated from the Department of European Studies (B.A. in European Business Law) at the University of London, through a joint program of Royal Holloway, University of London, City University London, and SOAS University of London.

He later pursued an MBA in Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science, while simultaneously working in London for International Distillers & Vintners (later part of Diageo).

In 2003, he returned to Patras, where he began working in the catering sector, continuing a family tradition in the production of food and sweets, and joining forces with one of the leading figures in the local market at the time, Spyros Stergiou.

In 2010, he became the father of two children, Spyros and Konstantinos.