Syvalia “Val” Hyman III is President and CEO of the United South End/Lower Roxbury Development Corporation and its subsidiaries, the UDC Real Property Corporation and the UDC Housing Development Corporation in Boston. 

Prior to his current position, he was Associate Director of United South End Settlements, a neighborhood human services organization. Earlier he served as Senior Management Planner with the United Community Services and the United Community Planning Corporation, the planning organizations for the United Way of Massachusetts Bay. Before that he served as director of the ABCD Roxbury/North Dorchester Area Planning Action Council (now Elm Hill Family Service Center). 

Val served as Founding Chairman of the Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations from 1981 to 1986, and was a board member from 1983 to 2003 of OneUnited Bank (formerly Boston Bank of Commerce) the second-largest black-owned bank in the United States. He is a member and past chairman and treasurer of the Tent City Corporation Board of Directors and currently serves as Chairman of the Board of ABCD’s Elm Hill FSC serving Roxbury and North Dorchester. He is also a board member of Central Boston Elder Services. 

Hyman has served in leadership positions on the ABCD Board of Directors from 1972 to 1976 and from 2000 to the present time.