Mr. Jerry W. Torres is a: prominent entrepreneur who founded and led a global business that became a billion-dollar enterprise in ten years; decorated service-disabled US Army Special Forces (Green Beret) combat veteran; nominee for the US National Infrastructure Security Council (NISC); author of university advanced degree enterprise engineering textbooks; humanitarian aid donor, leader and volunteer; human rights advocate and teacher; philanthropist and environmentalist; and former volunteer Firefighter and Emergency Multi-Media First Aid Responder. As the founder and former President and CEO of his former global enterprise, Torres Advanced Enterprise Solutions (Torres AES) – now CGS, continues to deliver critical services to the US Government (USG), US allies, large multi-national businesses, and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in high threat and austere locations around the globe, including Africa, Asia, Central and South America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and US Territories in the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea. Mr. Torres served as President and CEO of this award-winning business from 2005 until May 2019 when he retired from his global enterprise to focus on philanthropic programs including humanitarian aid, human rights and the global environment.

Under his stewardship, Torres AES earned the distinction “Fourth Fastest-Growing Privately Held Business in the United States” as featured in INC Magazine. Generating $1 billion in revenues, $2.5 billion in delivery contracts and employing 8,600 on five continents, Torres AES received numerous prominent customer awards such as the US Department of State’s (DoS’s) “Outstanding Service Award” presented by the US Secretary of State and dozens more from elite US agencies, allied governments, NGOs, multi-national businesses and national and international business associations.

Mr. Torres is the author of two advanced business reengineering and technology text books, “Transformation – Get it Right the First Time” and “Enterprise Engineering”, used by: universities to teach his innovative business reengineering and technology methodologies at the advanced degree levels; US agencies to train senior executives in streamlining government operations to enhance critical government services to US citizens; NGOs to develop programs to elevate the lives of vulnerable populations around the world; and by non-profits to deliver critical life-saving humanitarian aid and to advocate for human rights, justice and equality. Most recently the methodologies defined in his book “Transformation – Get it right the First Time” was the essential resource to plan a critical agricultural development program to help West Africans produce sustainable rice for local consumption and for export regionally and globally.

Mr. Torres is a decorated former US Army Special Forces (Green Beret)1, who served in combat missions and conflicts around the globe under US military and law enforcement Joint Task Forces (JTFs). During his nearly 30 years of service, he led and participated in: combat, counter drug (CD), counter terrorism (CT), counterinsurgency (COIN), foreign internal defense (FID) and intelligence and counterintelligence (CI) missions; anti-human trafficking, weapons and contraband trafficking and drug trafficking interdiction operations; and peace keeping assignments around the world. Throughout his military service he served in Far East Asia, Africa, Europe, South America, and the Middle East, including Iraq and Afghanistan. While serving as the US Military Group Operations NCO at the US Embassy in Argentina, the US Ambassador appointed Mr. Torres to Acting INL Officer for the US State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL). From this post he led the transformation of US-Argentine military and law enforcement relations by architecting numerous successful joint intelligence, and human, weapons and drug trafficking interdiction missions in the Tri-Border region of South America and on Argentina’s borders with Chile and Bolivia. His joint US-Argentine team provided key intelligence that resulted in, at the time, the largest cocaine shipment seizure attempted into Chile, which was destined for Argentina, then New York and Madrid.

Mr. Torres earned numerous awards and decorations during his distinguished military career including among others the: Bronze Star Medal, Combat Infantryman’s Badge, Special Forces Tab, Parachutist Badge, Joint Service Commendation Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Joint Service Achievement Medal, Army Achievement Medal, and the Non-Commissioned Officer of the Year and Scout Sniper Top Gun Awards.

Mr. Torres is the former Director of Global Information Technology (IT) for Merck Pharmaceuticals and the May Company, and Project Manager, Senior Consultant and Computer Programmer for multiple Fortune 500 companies such as Ford Motor Company and Loral Space & Communications (now Lockheed Martin), Johnson & Johnson and Merial Pharmaceuticals, ATT and Telefonica Wireless, Puerto Rico Telephone Company (PRTC), Long Island Lighting Company (now Brooklyn Union Gas), and the NASDAQ Stock Exchange. During most of his 35-plus year IT career, he lived and worked throughout Far East Asia, Europe, Central America, South America and the Caribbean.

During his IT career Mr. Torres also served as Project Leader, Senior Consultant and Computer Programmer for USG agencies including the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the US Department of State (DoS), the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the US Department of Defense.

Mr. Torres is a presenter at conferences, symposiums and leadership and business roundtables during which he shares his experience, visions and views on topics from national and cyber security and defense and intelligence to business, technology and human rights. He was a guest speaker at the first Veteran’s Presidential Inauguration Ball in 2005 and accepted the US Veteran’s “Sportsman of the Year” award on behalf of the family of Corporal Pat Tillman who was killed in action (KIA) in Afghanistan in 2004. In 2006 and 2007, he was guest speaker at two USG counterterrorism and intelligence conferences with over 400 attendees from the US intelligence, defense, law enforcement and justice communities, and representatives of allied governments.

In 2015, he created and led a week-long cyber security and cyber forensics conference in Paraguay with keynote speakers from both the Bush and Obama administrations. Attendees included members of justice, law enforcement, intelligence, diplomatic and armed forces communities from the US and several South American nations. In 2018 he was both the inaugural and commencement speaker for 12 US Embassy-sponsored training programs in South America that included courses in human rights, rule of law, justice, investigations, terrorism, cyber forensics and cyber security, among others. The course graduates included ministers, members of congress, judges, prosecutors, investigators and security and intelligence professionals from several South American countries.

Mr. Torres led US business delegations at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland from 2016 through 2019 where he delivered remarks to members of the press, foreign governments, and multi-national businesses on transnational business partnership building. In 2018, he was a guest speaker at the previously largest US security conference in Tampa, Florida with attendees from governments and innovative private sector firms from around the world.

Mr. Torres has an extensive history of giving to the vulnerable and protecting our environment, natural resources and nature’s wildlife. He has been a silent leader in the advancement of human rights and equal justice and in helping the most vulnerable during crises such as natural disasters and malnutrition by delivering humanitarian aid and medical relief. Under Mr. Torres’ leadership, his former firm, Torres AES, developed Humanitarian Aid and Human Rights programs giving millions in donations and direct aid, and dedicated volunteers who provided thousands of hours to those in need in Southwest Asia, East Africa, Central America, South America, the Middle East, and to vulnerable minority communities in Washington DC. In 2018 when an elderly minority woman lost her home, Mr. Torres immediately bought the property and gave it back to her.

Also, under his leadership and though the efforts of his employees and volunteers, Torres AES reduced the infant mortality rate of a South American indigenous tribe from ~65% to under ~5%. The company also sponsored the first three 22 KM troop marches (2017 – 2019) to bring awareness to the high suicide rates (~22 Monthly) of US Troops and veterans and gave aid and assistance to such distinguished organizations as Doctors Without Borders, the Red Cross/Red Crescent, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) and dozens of veteran’s organizations including the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and the Wounded Warrior Project.

Mr. Torres and his daughter have participated in expeditions and research projects to advance the health of our natural environment in Antarctica, South Africa, the Caribbean and Red Seas and the Pacific Ocean. Mr. Torres has donated over $250 thousand to environmental and wildlife causes in the US and around the world in just the past few years. Both he and his family, have donated to animal rescue projects and have rescued vulnerable domestic pets from cruelty and certain death.

Mr. Torres has been a teacher in subjects such as counterterrorism, counterinsurgency, law enforcement, human rights, physical and cyber security, cyber forensics, and business and technology. He taught intelligence systems and methods to members of an elite US intelligence agency while deployed to Afghanistan and the Middle East, and to members of US defense, intelligence and federal law enforcement communities, and agencies of allied nations in Washington DC. He was also an instructor at the US Army John F. Kennedy (JFK) Special Warfare Center in Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

Mr. Torres is a graduate of Saint Martin’s University in Olympia, Washington with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology; a minor in Marine Biology; and holds additional degrees and certifications in Computer Programming and Accounting and Finance. He is a graduate of the US Army John F. Kennedy (JFK) Special Warfare Center in Fort Bragg, North Carolina where he earned the Green Beret. He is also a graduate of the: US Army Chemical, Biological and Radiological School for Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD); four US Army Leadership Academies; the US Army Jumpmaster School; the US Army Parachutist School, and the US Army Scout Sniper School where he earned the “Top Gun Award”. Mr. Torres is a certified Firefighter and Multi-Media First Aid Technician; a certified diver; and holds a martial arts black belt.