Shari Hyman

Shari C. Hyman was appointed President and Chief Operating Officer of the Battery Park City Authority in February 2014. Immediately prior to her appointment as President, Ms. Hyman served as Commissioner and Chair of the New York City Business Integrity Commission under Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg from 2011 to 2014. Between 2006 and 2011, Ms. Hyman served in multifaceted positions in the Bloomberg Administration including Chief of Staff to the Deputy Mayor for Operations, Senior Counsel and Director of Business Acceleration where she focused on streamlining City operations to help small businesses, including the design and implementation of the New Business Acceleration Team (NBAT), a multi-agency program enabling new restaurant and retail owners to open their doors more quickly through a consolidated and coordinated inspection process. Ms. Hyman also served as First Deputy Criminal Justice Coordinator in New York City's Office of the Criminal Justice Coordinator as well as Director of the Mayor's Office of Special Enforcement (OSE), a multi-agency taskforce dedicated to handling quality of life issues city-wide where she garnered international attention for anti-counterfeiting efforts on Canal Street in operation “counterfeit triangle.” Ms. Hyman began her career as an Assistant District Attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office under Robert M. Morgenthau where she served for over a decade. Ms. Hyman holds a JD from Northwestern University and a BA from Columbia University.