His parents are Severo Colberg Ramírez, a former speaker of the House of Representatives, and Eva Toro Franquiz, a college professor and former student dean at the University of Puerto Rico.
[2] From 1989 to 1996, Colberg Toro served as special advisor, director of programming and press secretary of then-Mayor of San Juan, Héctor Luis Acevedo.
Because of his work, he received the Felisa Rincón de Gautier Award for distinguished public servant in 1995.
[4][5] On January 9, 2013, Governor Alejandro García Padilla announced that Colberg would serve as Secretary of Public Affairs, thus relinquishing his seat in the House of Representatives.
After two years in office, on July 1, 2015, Governor Garcia-Padilla appointed Colberg, for second time, as Secretary General of the PDP.
He also was the political director for the Popular Democratic Party delegation for Hillary Clinton's Campaign that won both Puerto Rico's primaries.
Colberg wrote two books, the first one, "Agenda de Cambios" (Agenda for Change) about political history of the PDP and "Pacto de Futuro" (Compact for the Future) about the future of the Commonwealth as the best political option for the people of Puerto Rico.