Juan Salaverria

Juan F. Salaverría is a Salvadoran business executive and investor best known as an early backer and board member of Open English, the online English-language school for Latin America (originally incorporated as FoxyP2, Inc.). He led the investment in FoxyP2/Open English and helped spearhead the company's marketing and distribution operations across Spanish-speaking Latin American countries — leveraging his background in advertising and media to support its consumer-acquisition engine.

By profession, Salaverría is the Chief Executive Officer of Grupo Comercial de Comunicaciones (GCC), described as the leading group of advertising agencies and specialized marketing units in Central America. Within GCC he also leads Publicidad Comercial MullenLowe in El Salvador, the country's longest-standing advertising agency (part of the MullenLowe / Omnicom network). His investing activity is conducted through GCC Investments LLC, where Crunchbase lists him as Executive Director, and as a personal angel investor with more than a decade of experience analyzing markets and investing across various productive sectors in Latin America.

Earlier in his career he worked as an Associate at Nexstar Capital Partners and as a Corporate Development Associate at Grupo Q (automotive-sector acquisitions and strategy). He was educated at The Hill School (high school diploma, 1995), earned a B.A. in Economics from the University of Chicago (1999), and completed an MBA in Finance and General Management at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (2005–2007).

Beyond his investing and operating roles, Salaverría is active in El Salvador's civic and institutional life. He sits on the board of the Department of Socioeconomic Studies (DEES) at FUSADES, and on the boards of nonprofits FUNPRES and Glasswing International, in addition to his corporate board seats at Open English, Escala, and CrediQ.

• Invests personal capital as an angel, typically taking equity in early-stage companies; Crunchbase records him as having made angel investments in the education-software space.
• Strong tilt toward EdTech and consumer internet with a Latin America go-to-market thesis — companies that can scale across Spanish-speaking markets benefit from his advertising, media, and distribution expertise.
• Adds value beyond capital through marketing and distribution: with Open English he helped launch and run the platform's marketing and distribution operations across Latin America, reflecting his operating base in advertising (GCC / MullenLowe).
• Takes active, board-level roles rather than passive checks — he holds board seats at Open English, Escala, and CrediQ, suggesting a hands-on, long-horizon engagement style.