Nic McKinley
CIA operative
Nicholas McKinley is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative and US Air Force veteran. He is also the founder of DeliverFund and AI company, 10 Point Data.
Early life and education
Kinley is not originally from Montana, but currently resides there. He studied online at Harvard Extension School (HES) and earned a Bachelor of Liberal Arts.
Career
McKinley's professional journey began in the United States Air Force, where he served eleven years as a pararescueman (PJ) within the Special Operations community. His duties involved performing high-risk rescue missions and providing medical care in combat zones.
McKinley joined the CIA in 2007 as an operative in the agency's Directorate of Operations component, where he gathered intelligence on global threats. During his time as a CIA Operative, he was nearly abducted at a checkpoint by terrorists while stationed in North Africa, but managed to negotiate his way out of the situation without the use of physical violence.
He left the CIA in 2014 to start a family and establish the non-profit organization DeliverFund. In its first three years, DeliverFund produced intelligence leading to the arrest of four pimps.
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