Juan Fernando Franco & Ivan Martinez

Why This Is a Caution File

Neither Juan Fernando Franco nor Ivan Martinez is named, individually, in any enforcement action, lawsuit, or regulatory finding located for this dossier. The flag here is narrower and more precise, and it is worth stating exactly.

On 1 March 2023, the Banco Central del Uruguay issued Comunicación N°2023/036, headed “‘Be’ – ‘Experiencia SKY TEAM’ – ADVERTENCIA sobre actividad no registrada por la Superintendencia de Servicios Financieros.” Its operative text: the firms named “Be” (formerly Melius) and “Experiencia SKY TEAM,” which advertise their services through social networks and various media, under the modality of training courses or events, “are not registered in any form before the Banco Central del Uruguay nor do they hold authorization to operate from the Superintendency of Financial Services,” and that companies calling for investment in this way “could involve operations based on ‘pyramid’ schemes, which lack financial sustainability” VERIFIED — full PDF retrieved and read, 2026-08-30. Sky Team is theirs: trade press states it directly (“El equipo, fundado por los colombianos Iván Martínez y Juan Fernando Franco”), the now-removed @skyteam_official_ Instagram account posted under a headline naming both men as leaders, and Franco’s own Instagram carries a reel captioned “#TBT Esto es SKYTEAM” CORROBORATED — vivaelnetworking.com, 2021-03-26; Instagram post/reel identifiers.

Stated with exact legal precision, because the distinction is the entire point of this note: the BCU communiqué names the organization, “Experiencia SKY TEAM” — not Franco or Martinez as individuals. It is an administrative public warning of non-registration, coupled with a general caution that such operations could involve pyramid schemes. It is not an enforcement action. It is not a finding of fraud. It is not an adjudication of any kind. Nothing in the underlying research establishes that either man has been charged with, sued for, or found liable for anything, anywhere, by any authority.

A second, company-level record bears on their judgment rather than their conduct: the vehicle they built Sky Team inside — BE, formerly Melius, run by co-founders described as former OneCoin promoters — was separately named by the Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia on 16 December 2021 (“BE – MELIUS – BE FACTOR,” lacking permits to offer securities-market products to Colombian residents) VERIFIED, primary. That release also discloses that the SFC took five administrative measures against 12 named individuals in 2021 ordering them to stop promoting foreign securities products in Colombia. Whether Franco or Martinez is among those 12 individuals is UNKNOWN — the SFC’s “Órdenes de suspensión” resolution index did not render its item list during research, and this is the single most consequential open question in the caution analysis. It is recorded here as unresolved, not as clean.

What was checked on their current company, Innova, and came back empty: IOSCO’s I-SCAN portal returned no warnings for “8innova,” “innacademy,” “melius,” or “sky team”; SEC EDGAR full-text search returned zero hits for “Franco Elcure,” “8innova,” or “Innova Academy”; and the Meta Ad Library found no advertising by either subject or by Innova. What could not be checked, and must not be read as clean: the Internet Archive was offline (HTTP 503) for the entire retrieval window, so no historical page — including the deleted BusinessForHome articles about them — could be read; UAE corporate and court registries are not publicly searchable, so Innova’s ownership and domicile are unexamined; Colombian civil and criminal court indexes were not queried; and Japan’s Consumer Affairs Agency sanctions list was not queried for Innova Japan 合同会社.

Executive Summary

Two Colombian networkers spent roughly a decade building and rebuilding recruiting organizations in other MLMs, joined the Islam brothers’ BE (formerly Melius, formerly built by promoters of the collapsed OneCoin scheme) in late 2019, and built a Spanish-language recruiting organization called Sky Team across Colombia, Peru, Brazil, the Dominican Republic and Japan. They banked a documented seven-figure year and a Go Pro Million Dollar Hall of Fame induction on the strength of it — then, after both their home regulator and Uruguay’s central bank put warnings on the vehicle they were riding, took the organization, the corporate relationships and the playbook and re-launched the identical business model as a company they own: INNOVA, founded in or around September 2024, with Franco as co-founder and Presidente and Martinez as co-founder. The new company keeps the same product category (forex/crypto trading education plus an “automated trading” tier), the same binary comp plan, the same claimed Dubai domicile, and — tellingly — the same commission week measured in Colombia time VERIFIED — Forbes Colombia advertorial, 2024-09-08; 8innova.com leadership block, retrieved 2026-08-30.

That company change is the load-bearing correction to this dossier’s intake record. As distributors, their income was 100% MLM commission. As company owners since September 2024, their income is corporate — equity, officer compensation, and margin — and it is no longer even theoretically discoverable from a comp plan. The intake’s headline figure of roughly $13.2M/yr fails on every test applied to it. It traces to BusinessForHome (self-reported, never audited) via SEO aggregators, but BusinessForHome has since deleted both of its articles about the pair (now HTTP 404) and its own site search returns nothing for “Juan Fernando Franco” VERIFIED, retrieved 2026-08-30. The intake’s own cited asset — an Epixel “Top BE Club Earners” page, updated as recently as 29 July 2026 — lists 33 names and omits them entirely. Every surviving aggregator listing files the figure under “BE,” a company they left roughly two years ago. And the number is arithmetically impossible against their current company: Innova’s own January 2026 press release states it has paid “more than 10 million dollars in commissions… in just 15 months” to its entire global distributor field — about $666,667/month total. A single person drawing $1.1M/month would be 165% of the company’s entire commission outflow VERIFIED — vivaelnetworking.com, 2026-01-26.

What survives, and is materially better evidenced: a Go Pro Million Dollar Hall of Fame induction in 2021 (the first Colombians so honored, a program that requires more than $1M/yr in commissions-only income with proof submitted), and a self-reported $230,000/month ($2.7M projected for 2021) figure given to trade press in March 2021, at a BusinessForHome world rank of #71 CORROBORATED. As of 2026-08-30, their present income cannot be determined: Innova publishes no income disclosure statement in any language, at any property checked.

The partnership itself has quietly come apart. Franco is running Innova at full speed — a four-reel Instagram burst between 2026-08-14 and 2026-08-21 covering Bootcamp Panamá 2026 and a Brazil incentive trip, to 272,200 followers, verified. Martinez has posted nothing Innova-branded since 2025-09-13, is absent from Innova’s own “LIDERADOS POR VISIONARIOS” leadership block, and is unmentioned in the company’s January 2026 milestone press release, which credits only Franco (Presidente), Juan Carlos Barrios (CVO) and Manuel Estrada (CEO). Martinez’s own feed has pivoted to a separate 2026 venture, Club 33, and his most recent post of any kind is 2026-06-01 VERIFIED. Whether he resigned, was bought out, or has simply gone quiet is UNKNOWN — no announcement of any kind was found in Spanish or English. A dossier commissioned to cover “a two-person team” must record that, on the observable evidence, there is now one active operator and one absentee.

The Edge

The Portable Organization [PARTIALLY REPLICABLE, and one half of it is not replicable at all]. The insight Franco and Martinez proved is that in Spanish-language MLM the durable asset is not the company, the product, the funnel, or even the audience — it is the named relationship with a mid-tier leader who has followers who will cross a company boundary with them. They spent a decade accumulating those relationships across multiple failed vehicles, concentrated them into one branded organization (Sky Team), monetized it inside BE until the vehicle became a regulatory liability, and then moved the organization intact into a company they own — capturing not the 20–30% distributor share of volume but the 32%+ corporate share. The proof that the organization, not the company, was the asset is a 2024 US recruiting announcement from leaders Jenn and Angel Carmona, who defected sight-unseen into the still-unlaunched Innova: “when we saw that Ivan Martinez & Juan Fernando Franco cofounded this company, we knew we could follow them because they achieved what we desire” VERIFIED — vivaelnetworking.com/patrocinado/, 2024-08-22.

The replicable half is the doctrine that makes an organization portable, and Franco has stated it plainly: “nobody can afford the luxury of doing things that others cannot copy” (“nadie puede darse el lujo de hacer cosas que otros no puedan copiar”) VERIFIED — vivaelnetworking.com, 2020-12-15. Every design decision follows from it: no funnel software, no ad budget, no landing pages, no email list, no tool a new recruit cannot afford on day one — because a system only the leader can run cannot walk when the leader walks. The second replicable half is the credential arbitrage: one verifiable, third-party-gated award (Go Pro Hall of Fame, income-proof required), two books, and a paid Forbes advertorial were enough institutional-looking credibility to launch a company that discloses no ownership information at all and still recruit leaders from outside Latin America into it.

What cannot be copied: the decade of relationship inventory (45,000+ people across five countries, built on other companies’ dime over eleven years); the timing (they joined BE the month before a global lockdown drove Spanish-speaking Latin America online at unprecedented scale); and the Hall of Fame plaque itself, which required $1M+ in verified commissions first — it is a consequence of the result, not a route to it. What a replicator should specifically not copy is the regulatory posture: their organization became portable in part because the vehicle it sat inside had accumulated warnings from Colombia, Uruguay, Quebec, Norway, the Philippines and others, and their response was not to fix the model but to re-domicile the identical structure — same binary plan, same automated-trading tier — under new ownership. Anyone who copies the structure without the plaque, the books, or the ten-year relationship bank inherits every one of those exposures with none of the credibility built to absorb them.

Journey

~2009 — Franco enters MLM at 16 years old; by his own account he earned roughly $200 in his first year CORROBORATED — his own interview, vivaelnetworking.com, 2020-12-15.

~2011 — Martinez enters the industry; the two meet and become partners. Across multiple companies, Franco builds organizations of more than 45,000 people spanning Brazil, Peru, the Dominican Republic, Colombia and Japan CORROBORATED.

2019-12 / 2020-01 — the milestone. They join BE (formerly Melius, founded by ex-OneCoin promoters Monir, Moynul and Ehsaan Islam) and found the Sky Team recruiting organization CORROBORATED — vivaelnetworking.com, 2021-03-26.

2020-09 — Franco reaches Presidential Diamond rank; BusinessForHome runs the announcement (since deleted; returns HTTP 404 as of 2026-08-30) VERIFIED as to the 404.

2021-02/03 — Sky Team’s monthly team sales exceed $1.5M; the pair’s own stated personal commissions are approximately $230,000/month, with $2.7M projected for the year, and a BusinessForHome world rank of #71 VERIFIED as to publication / CORROBORATED as to figures.

2021-12 — Go Pro Million Dollar Hall of Fame — Franco and Martinez are inducted as the first Colombians in the program’s history, a program requiring more than $1M/yr in commissions-only income with proof submitted CORROBORATED.

2021-12-16 — The Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia names “BE – MELIUS – BE FACTOR” among foreign platforms lacking permits to offer securities-market products to Colombian residents, and discloses five administrative measures taken in 2021 against 12 unnamed individuals VERIFIED — superfinanciera.gov.co.

2022-05 — The pair reach Ambassador rank at BE; BusinessForHome runs it (since deleted; 404) VERIFIED as to the 404.

2023-03-01 — Banco Central del Uruguay, Comunicación N°2023/036: “‘Be’ – ‘Experiencia SKY TEAM’ – ADVERTENCIA” — their own team brand is named in a central-bank warning VERIFIED — bcu.gub.uy/Comunicados/seggco23036.pdf.

2024-08-22 — US leaders Jenn and Angel Carmona publicly leave their company for the still-unlaunched INNOVA, naming Franco and Martinez as the reason VERIFIED.

2024-08/09 → 2024-09-30 — the founding. INNOVA launches. 8innova.com is first archived 2024-08-31; the Forbes Colombia advertorial naming Franco and Martínez “Presidente” publishes 2024-09-08 VERIFIED.

2024-10-02 — BehindMLM publishes its Innova review, characterizing it as a Be Club clone VERIFIED as to publication.

2025-03-19 — Innova Japan 合同会社 incorporated in Shibuya, Tokyo — the only jurisdiction in which the company files disclosure documents VERIFIED.

2025-09-13 — INN Mansion Tour announced. This is the last Innova-branded post Martinez makes VERIFIED.

2025-10-31 — Innova’s YouTube channel stops uploading VERIFIED.

2026-01-26 — Innova’s milestone release states more than $10M in commissions paid in 15 months, crediting Franco, Barrios and Estrada — Martinez is unmentioned VERIFIED.

2026-03/04 — Martinez begins promoting Club 33, a separate venture, unrelated to Innova VERIFIED.

2026-06-01 — Martinez’s most recent public post of any kind VERIFIED.

2026-08-14 → 08-21 — Franco’s four-reel burst covering Bootcamp Panamá 2026 and a Brazil incentive trip. By this point @oficial.innova has been removed from Instagram, while both founders’ bios still link to it VERIFIED, retrieved 2026-08-30.

Score Correction Note

The intake score of 79 (Tier 2) has been re-scored to 68 (Tier 2 held), applied to this record on 2026-08-30 under the series’ standing re-score rule. Rationale, drawn from the research report’s own SCORE_NOTE: Income evidence (of 40) scores near the bottom of its band — the intake’s $13.2M/yr figure fails four independent tests (deleted source articles, an omission from the intake’s own cited asset, attribution to a company they left, and an arithmetic impossibility against Innova’s actual commission outflow); what survives is a five-year-stale 2021 self-report plus a Hall of Fame induction, and their present income as company owners is structurally undiscoverable. Audience (of 30) is mid and deteriorating — Franco’s 272K Instagram following is real, but its like-rate has fallen roughly 4–5× over twelve months, there is no email list, no owned community, and Martinez’s following is marginal. Activity (of 20) is split, and the split is itself a finding: Franco is fully active, Martinez has gone essentially silent on the subject business. Dossier value (of 10) is the strongest component and is why the score lands at 68 rather than falling out of Tier 2 — the fully recovered compensation plan and statutory disclosure documents, the tool-free organic funnel, and the cleanest distributor-to-founder defection arc in the series are all genuinely valuable replication material. Three corrections were made to the intake record: (1) primary company corrected from “BE Club” to INNOVA, which they founded and own; (2) the income line was struck and replaced with the corroborated ~$2.7M/yr (2021) figure plus the Hall of Fame credential, with 2026 income noted as corporate and undetermined; (3) the framing was changed from a two-person top-earner profile to a founder-defection case study, with Martinez’s current involvement flagged as unresolved.