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Bio

Wyman began his career at the first Community Development Bank in the nation, South Shore Bank in Chicago in 1978 and later as the first Executive Director of the Westside Conservation Corp., a community development corporation in Milwaukee, Wi., that focused on housing counseling and acquiring vacant properties, restoring them and selling the renovated homes to first time home buyers.

In 2001, Wyman became the Director of Housing for the Portland Development Commission and later Deputy Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer..

In 2007 he became the Deputy Director of Tax Allocation Districts (TADs) for the Atlanta Development Authority. I established the city’s first commercial and retail Tax Allocation Districts (TADs) in the city’s older inner city retail corridors. I created the City of Atlanta’s New Market Tax Credit (NMTC) program with a focus on revitalization of the city’s underdeveloped neighborhood retail corridors and the Central Business District.

Wyman spent 14 years at WHEDA as a Senior Manager, first in the Multifamily Group and later heading the Emerging Markets Group. For eight years, 2011 to 2019, Wyman served as the Executive Director of Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority (WHEDA), a multi-billion-dollar state housing authority that supports the development of affordable housing and fosters business growth and job creation. Under Wyman’s leadership, WHEDA invested over $2.8 billion in Wisconsin for over 24,000 units of affordable housing; created new programs to help over 457 small businesses and farmers; awarded $308 million in New Market Tax Credits that supported 23 developments. In 2012, Wyman unveiled Transform Milwaukee, the initiative generated more than $750 million of development in Milwaukee’s neighborhoods.

He is the former President of the Greater Wisconsin Opportunities Fund, a Community Development Entity. In 2016, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago appointed Wyman to a two year term on its Advisory Council on Agriculture, Small Business and Labor. Wyman is also a Senior Fellow at the American Leadership Oregon Forum. Currently Wyman serves on the Board of the Affordable Housing Institute, a US based non-profit focused on housing in Third World countries.