Mr. Torres joined the National Student Clearinghouse as its President and CEO in 2008. Under his leadership the Clearinghouse has continued to successfully extend its mission delivery of access driven service to education, which today comprises nearly 3,700 higher education institutions and over 13,000 high schools, school districts, and 43 states and thousands of outreach organizations, executing over 1.4 billion transactions annually, saving the education community over $850 million a year.

In addition, the Clearinghouse has evolved its non-profit mission execution to the education community by providing accessible innovative technology-based service and data exchange solutions that enable education institutions and organizations to focus on being engines that maximize human potential development. The Clearinghouse is a leader in advocating privacy, security, transparency and responsible use of data to provide better understanding of student educational pathway performance to the benefit of students, institutions, and policymakers. 

Mr. Torres has been an active board member of the John Tyler Community College Foundation for the past 17 years and serves on the Board of the National College Access Network (NCAN). He also sat on the Board of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) from 2012 to 2016. He was a founding member and sits on the Executive Committee of the Groningen Declaration Network Group, a multi-national group of leaders dedicated to developing a trusted international data exchange ecosystem. In 2017, Mr. Torres was selected as an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist for the Mid-Atlantic region. He was a recipient of the Washington Business Journal’s 2013 Minority Business Leader Award. Mr. Torres holds an MBA in International Finance from Georgetown University and undergraduate degrees in both Marketing and Management from Manhattan College.