JONATHAN TORRES

C12 Chair since 2025

Territory Served

Jonathan Torres, more affectionately known as “Torres”, most recently served as CEO at Frase Protection Inc., a local residential and commercial security company, responsible for leading and growing the business to make Memphis a safer place to live, work, and play. The business has over 20 employees with an annual revenue exceeding $6M. Under Torres’ leadership, the business was recognized as Memphis Business Journal’s Small Business of the Year in 2024 and successfully led the business through an acquisition. Torres’ background also includes experience as the CEO with Memphis Athletic Ministries and with more than two decades of ministry experience in sharing the gospel with youth in the inner-city in under-resourced communities and impacting the lives of countless families. Throughout Torres’ career, he has been a sought-after coach and mentor in the area of strategic planning, discipleship, organizational leadership, and community engagement. 

Additionally, Torres actively serves on the board of various non-profit organizations including Collierville Young Life, sharing the gospel with youth in the community, and Believe Memphis Academy, a local K-8 charter school. Torres has also served as a founding board member of Restore Corps, a non-profit fighting human-trafficking and providing resources to human-trafficking survivors. He has served as an elder of Harvest Church and as an elder in planting a church, Eastside Community Church. Torres also advised the City of Memphis Mayor Paul Young by serving on his transition team when taking office in 2024. Torres lives in Memphis with his wife of 20 years, Janna. They have 3 daughters, Jaidyn(17), Jazlyn(15) and Joia(11) and their yorkipoo, Mando. When not working, Torres enjoys playing soccer with his wife and staying active through working out and being outdoors. Their family famously hosts “Taco Night”, a weekly gathering open to the community and friends while sharing tacos for over 12 years, which deepens relationships and invites and welcomes all. 

Torres’ life verse is, Ephesians 4:12, “equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,”. Torres embodies this verse through the equipping of others into the full purposes God has created for them.