Fletcher H. "Flash" Wiley graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1965 and continued his studies as a Fulbright Scholar in Paris at L'Institut Des Etudes Politiques.

Following service as a captain in the U.S. Air Force, Mr. Wiley resigned his commission to pursue graduate studies. In 1974, he received his master'ss in public policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and his law degree from Harvard Law School.

For more than two decades, Mr. Wiley worked as a practicing attorney concentrating in the areas of corporate and commercial law, small business development, entertainment law, and real estate. On Sept. 1, 1996, Mr. Wiley resigned as a Senior Partner with the Boston Law firm of Goldstein and Manello, P.C., to join PRWT Services, Inc., a Philadelphia-based products and services company, as a principal of the company and its Executive Vice President and General Counsel.

On Sept. 30, 2008, Mr. Wiley retired from employment with PRWT after playing a key role in building it into one of the nation's largest minority-owned businesses and Black Enterprise Magazine's 2009 "Company of the Year." He remains a principal in the company and is the Chairman of the PRWT Advisory Board.

Mr. Wiley has served as a director of several for-profit business organizations, including three public companies. He recently retired after two decades as a Director of The TJX Companies, Inc. He is also "of counsel" to Bingham McCutchen LLP, one of the nation's largest law firms, where he specializes in corporate and commercial law. Additionally, as Chairman and CEO of The Centaurus Group, LLC, Mr. Wiley is an investor and principal in several commercial, real estate development, and management consulting ventures.

Mr. Wiley is extensively involved in civic and charitable activities. In 1984, he founded and chaired until 1990 the Governor's Commission on Minority Business Development. He also served as a Director of the Economic Development and Industrial Corporation of Boston from 1980 to 1993. In 1994, he stepped down from a seven-year involvement as President, and then National Chairman, of the Black Entertainment and Sports Lawyers Association, Inc., to assume a two-year term as Chairman of the Board of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce.

He is a benefactor of Crispus Attucks Children's Center, Inc.; a founding member of the Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School Black Alumni Organizations; a former Director of the New England Legal Foundation; Overseer of the New England Region Anti-Defamation League; and Chairman of the Board of The Dimock Center, Inc.

He is also the recipient of numerous civic and professional awards, including induction in 2010 into the GBCC's "Academy of Distinguished Bostonians". In 2011, he was named by Defense Secretary Robert Gates to the Board of Visitors of Air University, and in 2012, President Barack Obama appointed him to the Board of Visitors of the U.S. Air Force Academy.

Mr. Wiley is a member of the Bars of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and District of Columbia, and belongs to the American, National, and Massachusetts Bar Associations.