Juan Saldívar

Juan boasts over 22 years’ experience in the entertainment, consulting and e-commerce industries, as well as in the strategic development of leading interactive platforms in Mexico, the US and Germany. Throughout his career, Juan Saldivar has directed start-up companies and has founded others. Between 1998 and 2001, he turned Submarino.com.mx into Mexico’s leading e-commerce company. Prior to that, between 1994 and 1997, Juan was the driving force behind the startup of the Plaza y Janés Publishing House (Editorial Plaza y Janés), in Spanish, which is now part of the Random House Mondadori group. In addition to his entrepreneurial experience, Juan has had the chance to work in two of the world’s most successful publishing and entertainment companies: the Bertelsmann Group in Germany, where he began working in the consulting department and then became head of the company’s publishing house in Mexico. Subsequently, from 2001 through to 2011, Juan was the director of Televisa Interactive Media, and was therefore responsible for the interactive media strategies and operations of the most important mass media corporation in the Hispanic world: Grupo Televisa. Within Televisa, Juan was also a member of the team which successfully orchestrated the acquisition of a large amount of stock of the North American company Univision in 2010; a 1.3 billion dollar operation. Other notable positions occupied by Juan Saldivar include his role as a Senior Associate within the ADP-Mercer Management Consulting firm, where he specialized in business turnarounds and financial restructuring.