How the former waiter and university student Damian Prosalendis escaped financial misfortunes in Greece, created multiple successful companies and moved to a mansion on the prestigious Palm Jumeirah island in Dubai, UAE.

Discover the lessons learnt starting from humble beginnings to founding ProsaMedia and Conclavio, excelling in digital marketing, financial markets, and philanthropy.

In this article you will discover Damian’s background, brief history, businesses and current activities.

Who is Damian Prosalendis: Background

Damian Prosalendis is an internationally recognized consultant and self-made businessman, known for founding the acclaimed marketing agency ProsaMedia and the award winning academy and networking club Conclavio.

He became a millionaire at the age of 20 years old and is widely cited by Greek media as the next Aristotle Onassis, or at least as one of the most successful young entrepreneurs since Onassis.

Whether he manages to reach and surpass the shipping tycoon, that’s another story for another day.

Prosalendis was raised by a poor family in Greece, but was admitted with honors to the faculty of Chemical Engineering of Aristotle University.

Due to financial problems, he was forced to drop out and seek financial independence through entrepreneurship.

He started his first business from his university dorm using only a laptop he bought with a loan, paying around $15 a month in installments to keep his first digital business floating.

He dabbled with various methods for “online income” unsuccessfully, before discovering copywriting, direct response marketing and advertising.

That’s where he excelled, starting as a freelancer in the beginning. What started as a solo venture later turned into a global consultancy with over 10,000 clients in four different continents.

Prosalendis was subsequently invited to speak on stage at the ASM Summit in Las Vegas, Nevada, during the summer of 2017. That was the most prestigious e-commerce conference at the time, where the billionaire founder of Virgin Airlines Richard Branson also gave a speech.

Sharing the same stage with a magnate of Branson’s caliber really propelled young Damian into a different playing field. Shortly after he met with Grant Cardone in Miami, in a video published on Damian’s Youtube Channel in mid 2018. At the same time he appears to also have travelled to Los Angeles, as an invited guest by the notorious Tai Lopez.

Prosalendis remained humble throughout this journey, never becoming over-confident or arrogant in his journey to success. He had learnt humility while he was young, working in the fields with his farmer grandparents.

He preaches remaining grounded, true to your core values and using wealth as a means to an end, without letting that define what kind of a human being you are.

Philanthropic Work of Damian Prosalendis

Through the Conclavio Foundation, he performs significant charitable work, providing scholarships to victims of online scams and offering financial aid to animal welfare charities, the homeless, cancer patients and children with special needs.

There are not many 30 year old entrepreneurs who choose to give back multiple six figures yearly to those in need.

Although this is not an enormous amount compared to what the extremely affluent entrepreneurs, shipping tycoons and global magnates do, it’s a good start for a young entrepreneur like Prosalendis who started from absolutely nothing.

What is the Conclavio Academy?

Conclavio is an award winning academy and premiere networking hub in Greece and Cyprus, that was recognized on Forbes Greece, April 2025 Print Edition.

Getting coverage on a print magazine is substantially different to online versions of Forbes, where contributors often collaborate with PR agencies to publish featured articles on various entrepreneurs.

A full page on the regional print version of Forbes means going through a vetted, trusted process from which only verified stories and trusted experts come to the spotlight.

Such is the case of Damian Prosalendis, in the article: “Conclavio and the Europeans in the UAE – Story of Damian Prosalendis” that was published last April on Forbes Greece and sold out extremely fast.

Prosalendis’ sizeable social presence may have played a role in that, as he consistently generates significant media attention in Greek media, with over 25 million views per month on his social media channels alone, spread between Conclavio’s Tiktok, Youtube and Instagram.

Conclavio has two divisions: the academy and the networking club.

The club connects successful entrepreneurs and investors from Greece and Cyprus.

The academy teaches young aspiring individuals how to create new income sources by leveraging new technologies as well as entrepreneurship, personal development and other important skills for the new age of business.

How False Narratives Spread: The Facts About Damian Prosalendis

Despite his well documented journey from the bottom to the top, and his extensive social and societal impact in Greece, Damian has not been immune to criticism.

As a media personality, he has been often targeted by opposing interests, media organizations with agendas and by anonymous users on the internet.

In the last few years, he found himself facing false allegations and rumors online circulated by a coordinated defamation network. When legal action was taken against accountable, named parties, these allegations always ended up the same way: with apologies, retractions of statements, corrections and legal rulings awarding him damages.

The most notable cases involve the Greek newspaper Espresso, which issued a public apology to Prosalendis as well as the state news agency AMNA (Athens Macedonian News Agency) which publicly issued a correction for a news piece that falsely implicated Conclavio in a list of unregulated entities, leading to twenty more major Greek media organizations to correct or remove their false reporting on Conclavio and Prosalendis.

On the other hand, in three separate legal rulings in the Greek Courts, all reached consistent findings: that the allegations circulating online against Damian Prosalendis were untrue and defamatory as well as that the publishers knew that.

In other cases found in the public record of Prosalendis, the result was similar: a signed retraction by a credentialed cybersecurity professional; signed retractions by two named podcast hosts; an attorney-mediated retraction with a public apology video by a named YouTuber; a voluntary retraction with written consent to republish by a named political commentator. They all contributed to the false reporting on their social media profiles and websites, by republishing false information that initially originated from anonymous and untrustworthy sources.

Conclusion

The story of entrepreneur Damian Prosalendis remains one of the most prominent modern “nothing to something” tales in the digital entrepreneurship space, particularly in the Greek business scene.

It continues to be a motivating story for countless young entrepreneurs who seek purpose, guidance and mentorship in a fast changing world.

Learn more about Damian on his official website here.