MIAMI.- Few profiles bring together so naturally the technical solidity of engineering and the strategic vision of international management as that of Roberto Torres. Spanish by birth, an electrical engineer by training and with more than twenty years of experience, his professional career has led him to become a benchmark in the world of energy efficiency, digitalization and development of smart buildings and electrical installations, with high-level responsibilities in markets in Europe, America, Africa and Asia. His career, built step by step in industrial, energy and infrastructure environments, reflects the evolution of a professional who has been able to read the changes in the sector and anticipate them.
In the academic field, Roberto has built a particularly complete preparation. He has a degree in Industrial Electrical Engineering, with a specialization in Automation, from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Barcelona. To that solid foundation he added an MBA in Business Administration. His professional evolution has also been supported by outstanding international executive training, with programs such as the Executive Leadership Program at Harvard University and Transforming Schneider Leadership at INSEAD, aimed at leadership in global environments and organizational transformation. His academic and executive career is completed by LEAP, Leadership Excellence Acceleration Program, as well as specific training in leadership and people management at Otto Walter School and the Sales Executive Program of BLC Group, which creates a very balanced profile between technical knowledge, management skills, team leadership and business orientation.
Torres remembers having begun his professional career in his native country, at the beginning of the 2000s, first as a telecommunications project engineer and then as a commercial technical engineer, before consolidating at Schneider Electric, a company in which he has developed most of his career. From his first responsibilities linked to low voltage, automation and management of energy, was outlining an increasingly clear specialization in advanced electrical solutions, energy efficiency and intelligent environments. Over time, this technical knowledge was also transformed into management skills, commercial leadership and business direction.
One of the most notable features of his career is his constant progression towards positions of greater international scope. In Spain he led marketing and business areas linked to the low voltage power portfolio and energy management systems, participating in the launch of key solutions and the growth of market share. Later, from France, he assumed a global dimension by directing the international Power OEMs channel, with impact on sales of large-scale industrial partners and coordination with countries such as Germany, China, the United States, Italy, Spain and France. That stage confirmed its ability to move with solvency in complex matrix structures and multinational ecosystems.
His jump to Africa marked another turning point. From Casablanca he served as vice president for low-voltage divisions in French-speaking sub-Saharan Africa and islands, supervising an income statement of more than $100 million and activity in dozens of countries. There he reinforced his profile as an executive capable of combining strategy, channel development, portfolio definition and construction of networks of integrators, distributors and contractors. This experience, developed in very diverse contexts, consolidated his reputation as a manager accustomed to driving profitable growth without losing sight of local adaptation.
In the last 5 years, and from Miami, Roberto Torres has held the general management of the same company, for the Caribbean, Indian Ocean and Pacific Islands, with responsibility for more than 30 territories and an annual turnover of more than 100 million dollars. Leading multicultural teams of nearly a hundred people, he has combined business management, operational excellence, talent development and institutional representation. His role as an ambassador of energy efficiency and his promotion of strategies linked to BMS and GRMS, as well as local and international partners, reinforce a line of work focused on sustainability and intelligence applied to buildings and facilities. Currently his leadership is focused on the Caribbean, a key market, where he leads the growth and consolidation of the company.
But if there is one element that gives a singular dimension to his career, it is his international footprint. For more than two decades he has worked in more than 40 countries and on four continents, a rare experience even among senior management profiles. He has developed professional activity in markets as different as the United States, Dominican Republic, Spain, Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago, Morocco, Algeria, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, China, France, Italy, Germany, Poland, Tunisia, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Martinique, Guadeloupe or Mauritius, among many others. This prolonged exposure to such different realities has made intercultural management one of its main strengths.
In his own words, the great learning from this international journey has been to see that, although globalization has completely transformed the way of doing business and today projects are coordinated between teams spread around the world, local culture continues to be decisive. Understanding how people relate, how they negotiate, how a leader communicates and how trust is built in each country has been, in his experience, an essential condition for success.
That knowledge did not come automatically. He himself recognizes that the adaptation was not always easy, especially in transitions as demanding as the one he experienced when moving from France to Morocco, but precisely that learning curve ended up giving him a differential cultural richness.
Added to this is a factor that has multiplied his ability to connect: his command of the languages Spanish, English and French, in addition to Catalan. Being able to work with teams and partners in their own language not only facilitates daily operations, but also creates closeness, credibility and a finer understanding of each context. In the case of Torres, this linguistic competence has also been a leadership tool.
His profile combines, in short, three dimensions that are difficult to find in a single figure: a solid technical base as an electrical engineer, proven experience in energy efficiency and intelligent solutions for buildings and facilities, and an international senior management career built on results, cultural adaptation and vision of the future. At a time when the energy transition requires professionals capable of uniting technology, business and sustainability, Roberto Torres’ career represents that of an executive who has not only followed the transformation of the sector, but has actively contributed to promoting it and all of this has made him an unequivocal reference of leadership in his industry.
