Blake Denbina, Director
Blake Denbina has over 17 years of operational experience at both the civic and private business levels. Blake brings a motivated, strategic, solutions-focused approach to business reorganization and operations improvement. He has been a Utility Business Operations Executive for the City of Houston and held ownership and leadership roles at both a strategic management consulting firm and in hospitality, from concept and planning to build out and operations. In each of these roles, Blake has held critical leadership, capital project and P&L responsibilities.
He has led cross functional engineering and design teams for civil engineering projects for both Harris County and the Texas Department of Transportation.
Blake has a history of obtaining favorable outcomes. As a notable example, as Head of Procurement for the Utility Department for the City of Houston, responsible for enterprise account management, capital improvement, budgeting and financial reporting, he achieved $1.2 billion dollars in annual revenue and averaged $3.66 million dollars in annual savings to the department.
Prior to MACCO, Blake led a successful restaurant and bar franchise. He received his B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin and earned his MBA from the University of Houston. Blake is a State of Texas Certified Mediator, is Lean Six Sigma Certified, has an SAP Super User Designation, and has achieved FINRA Series 6 & 63 Financial Licenses.
Notable Assignments
For a franchised restaurant group, implemented a marketing program for newly acquired food & beverage establishment to drive revenue. Re-evaluated contract and vendor management. Applied KPIs and industry economic analysis to enhance vendor management and cost controls.
For the City of Houston, implementation of citywide Rebuild Houston Drainage Charge initiative in July 2011 resulted in $275 million dollars in new revenue. Project management for FEMA cost recovery program in 2008 for Hurricane IKE, resulting in recovery of $6.4 million dollars for the Right of Way & Fleet Maintenance Division.
As Head of IT, Customer Service, Contact Center, and Training, improved performance of Utility Customer Service Contact Center to its highest recorded level and successfully reduced customer hold time by 60% utilizing data models.
As Project Manager for a restaurant group, led the engineering, build out, and facility maintenance of multiple locations. Ensured activities and structures adhered to government compliance and utilized social media and radio platforms to drive consistent, measurable increase through promotions.