Brian Greene

Brian Greene is president/CEO of the Houston Food Bank, the largest Feeding America food bank in the nation by distribution. Since taking this role in 2005, Greene has led the organization to unprecedented growth and development, and in 2015 it was recognized as Food Bank of the Year. He leads the staff to be visionaries in each of their roles, enabling the organization to be flexible and creative to best serve the community, with the mission of food for better lives and a vision getting to a world that doesn’t need food banks.

In September 2021, Greene was selected from a group of 300 top executives and honored as one of The Non Profit Times’ Power & Influence Top 50 for adapting and overcoming hardship of the 100-year pandemic. COVID-19 brought unprecedented challenges which led to the establishment of new distribution programs, partnerships and donation streams, and logistics and operations were adapted were adjusted daily to meet the needs of HFB’s Partners and the community. Daily distribution in 2020 reached as high as 1 million pounds per day. In just the first 12 months of the pandemic, from March 2020 to March 2021, the Houston Food Bank distributed an astounding 297,980,183 pounds of food.

In addition to a successful and respected career at three food banks, Greene has served on numerous Feeding America Network committees, the National Council and on Feeding America’s Board. Outside of his food bank role, he is a board member of the Global Foodbanking Network, Better Business Bureau of Greater Houston and South Texas, and Food Bank News Editorial Advisory. He is a member of the Global Foodbanking Network Governance Committee, Feeding Texas Board Equity Committee, Upskill Houston Executive Committee TXFLC Partners, and the Executive Advisory Committee to the Health Equity Collective. He is the Executive Ambassador for the Greater Houston Coalition on Social Determinants of Health, and Adjunct Professor of Nonprofit Management at the University of Houston Downtown, College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Greene received a BA in Economics from Humboldt State University and an MA in Economics from the University of Tennessee.