Juan Salas is Director of Operations and Accounting for Technical Assistance Partnership of Arizona (TAPAZ). He oversees fiscally sponsored projects, helping to build their organizational capacity and providing full fiscal and operations services to groups whose missions are focused broadly on health and healthy communities in Arizona.

Prior to TAPAZ, Juan worked for private, public, and government entities where he supervised Operations, Accounting, Finance, and International Business across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. He has experience with complex projects, implementing process improvements, mitigating risks, negotiating scope, tracking, and reporting project changes to leadership and boards of directors.

Being born and raised in Mexico impacted Juan, creating deep sensitivity towards community service. One of Juan’s biggest strengths is the fact that he is bilingual and bicultural. He holds an undergraduate degree in Public Accounting from the University of Sonora and a master’s degree in Finance and Economic Engineering from Universidad LaSalle del Noroeste.