Wiley S. Adams is currently the President-Elect of the National Bar Association (“NBA”) which represents the interests of more than 67,000 African American lawyers and judges. He retired as Vice President and Chief Legal Officer of PGIM, Inc., the global investment management businesses of Prudential Financial, Inc.  PGIM has offices around the world and is one of 10 largest investment managers in the world with approximately $1.5 trillion in assets under management as of December 31, 2021.  Wiley led a team of approximately 80 lawyers in support of PGIM’s operations around the world.

Prior to his role above, Wiley was Vice President and Chief Legal Officer of Prudential Capital Group (now known as PGIM Private Capital (“PPC”) which is a division of PGIM).  PPC is the largest manager of privately placed debt investments in the United States with over $97 billion of private debt and equity securities under management as of December 31, 2021.  Upon his retirement, Wiley was enshrined in PPC’s Hall of Fame being one of fewer than 10 individuals at that time awarded that honor during PPC’s 98-year history.

Wiley is a lifetime member of (i) the NBA (and honored as, among other honors, a Living Legend of the organization), (ii) the National Bar Institute, (iii) the Cook County Bar Association (an inaugural lifetime member), (iv) the Garden State Bar Association and (v) the NAACP, in addition to serving on the board of the Cook County Bar Association Foundation.  He also serves as a director on one of the very few black-owned banks in the country. In additional to currently serving as NBA President-Elect, he has served on the NBA board, served as an NBA Vice President, served as NBA Region VII director and made substantial contributions to numerous NBA committees and programs over the years (including the MLK Competition).

Over the years, he has personally positively impacted hundreds of lawyers, students and others and his work for community and country continues to this day.