Juan Salas in the vineyards of La RiojaJuan Salas in the vineyards of La Rioja
Juan Salas
Venture Builder & Growth Partners for Investors & Entrepreneurs

Business excellence in the service of human authenticity

Juan Salas is a Spanish entrepreneur and speaker with over 15 years of experience reinventing businesses globally, serving as a business owner, consultant, and AI executive.
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Juan champions human authenticity as a driver for both business competitiveness and personal transformation.

Meet Juan
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People in teams led across EMEA
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Years of personal transformation
1988
Juan Salas as a child

Born

Santo Domingo de La Calzada, La Rioja, Spain
He enters the world in a town in northern Spain where time is measured by harvests and trades.

2012
Juan Salas next to a truck of Discalsa, his family business

Return home

La Rioja, Spain
He leads the reinvention of his family business, Discalsa. He goes from the boardrooms of the IBEX to driving a truck across France to showcase his products in design boutiques and internationalize his company.

2019
Juan Salas on stage during a talk

Return to the corporate world

Madrid, Spain
Following a period of personal reflection and "recovery" after closing his company, he returns to the corporate world at Oracle, where he leads business development for their applications business in Iberia.

2026
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Founds Salas Santamaría

Madrid, Spain
After "recovering" from being an entrepreneur, and with his perspective enriched by his years in multinational tech companies, he returns to entrepreneurship. His mission: to put business excellence at the service of human authenticity.

Founder and CEO

Salas Santamaría
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Salas Santamaria is the platform created by Juan to put business excellence at the service of helping companies and individuals thrive who choose human authenticity as a competitive advantage.

Salas Santamaria is a specialist in bringing business projects to life through the creation and growth of companies and the production of artistic projects.

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Speaker

My talks offer a solution for business reinvention and personal transformation in the age of AI, focusing on driving business excellence through the development of human authenticity.

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Business owners and executives seeking paths to business reinvention through human authenticity. 

Disruptive entrepreneurs with a humanistic calling.

Unique individuals looking to live their lives in alignment with their true essence.