Mayor's Office of Innovation & Performance

The goal of the Mayor’s Office of Innovation & Performance is to create lasting and substantial improvements in the way the City operates.

Our core values are:

1. Insight – Use data and facts to guide business decisions
2. Improvement – Collaborate with City departments to do business more efficiently
3. Innovation – Identify new, inventive ways to solve City challenges

About the Director

Jesse Bounds, Director of Innovation 832.393.9095

Jesse leads the Mayor’s Office of Innovation & Performance that is helping modernize the way the City serves its people. Prior to his current role, Jesse served in various capacities for the City’s executive office, as an Operations Analyst and Assistant Chief of Staff to Mayor Bill White, and more recently as a Liaison to Tax Increment Reinvestment Zones (TIRZ) in Mayor Parker’s Office of Economic Development. He is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and led many successful projects across the City result in measurable increases in service quality and efficiency. Jesse received his Master of Business Administration from the University of Houston and his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and International Studies from the University of St. Thomas. In his free time, he enjoys running and spending time with his wife, Gloria and their two sons.

Resources

• Open Data Portal
• Lean Six Sigma Program
• ION District: Houston's Innovation Community
• Houston Solutions Lab
• Title VI