Juan Carlos Ruiz

Juan Carlos Ruiz is an independent Venezuelan artist, economist, entrepreneur, and TEDx Speaker, with a Master of Science in Operation Research and a Master of Business Administration. Juan Carlos has resided in Boston, Massachusetts, since 2016, and has performed concerts in several cities across the U.S. and abroad.

Juan has performed at ArtBeat 2019 (Somerville’s largest cultural festival), the Dalí Quartet International Music Festival (2017), the Latin Music Festival at Berklee College of Music (2019), and Semana Coral Internacional De Alava in Spain (2000).

Juan began his musical studies in Venezuela at the age of 8 years old, playing the Cuatro, or Venezuelan guitar, and as a violist, in which he was one of the founding musicians of his town’s El Sistema youth symphony orchestra division.

Juan is also a sought-after speaker. In 2018, he was invited to speak for a nonprofit organization at Boston University called Plan País, which provides educational experiences to young Venezuelans studying abroad. More recently, Juan was invited to speak at the INCAE Business School in Costa Rica and Universidad Latina de Costa Rica.

Juan is a music teacher in various Boston-area music programs, an active board member for two local non-for-profit organizations— The Venezuelan Association of Our Lady of Coromoto in Boston (AVVC) and Latino STEM Alliance— and a member of Impact Hub Boston, one of the world’s largest networks focused on building entrepreneurial communities.