Port Houston
Charles Thompson joined Port Houston as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) in October of 2015 and leads the Information Technology division. Prior to the port, Mr. Thompson served the cities of Houston (2012-2015) and Phoenix (2007-2012) in the same role.
Mr. Thompson was also the CIO for Orange County, Florida public schools and the Chief Technology Officer for the District of Columbia public schools. Before beginning his career in the public sector, Charles worked in the private sector as a systems engineer, systems analyst and consultant with IBM, NYNEX Business Systems, SynOptics and Bay Networks. He also spent two years as a senior manager in Seoul, Korea, as an expatriate with Cisco Systems.
Port Houston
The Port of Houston is a 25-mile-long complex of 190-plus private and public industrial terminals along the 52-mile-long Houston Ship Channel. The eight public terminals are owned, operated, managed or leased by the Port of Houston Authority and include the general cargo terminals at the Turning Basin, Care, Jacintoport, Woodhouse, and the Barbours Cut and Bayport container terminals.