Company: MKLY
Filing Date: 2025-07-25
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001213900-25-067524
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Company: McKinley Acquisition Corp
Filing Date: 2025-07-25
Form: S-1/A
Chunk 25
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 around growth strategy, governance, and value creation. Mr. Dooley is also the author of The Pre -IPO Playbook, a guide designed to help investors identify and evaluate high -growthcompanies preparing to access public capital markets. His insights into public company readiness, investor engagement, and strategic positioning complement his practical experience as a SPAC sponsor and operator. Peter Wright — SPAC Advisory and Capital Markets Expertise Mr. Wright, our Chief Executive Officer, has advised dozens of SPACs and target companies across all phases of the SPAC transaction lifecycle. His experience includes supporting sponsor groups with target identification, deal structuring, and capital raising — including risk capital, PIPE equity, and structured financing — as well as preparing companies for the operational and investor -facingdemands of being publicly traded. Mr. Wright is the Founder and President of Intro -act, a capital markets advisory firm that partners with investment banks and investor relations professionals to enhance institutional engagement and investor readiness for both private and public companies. Through data -drivenbenchmarking, targeting, and messaging services, Intro -actplays a critical role in improving market positioning for companies entering or operating in the public markets. In addition, Mr. Wright serves as President of PartnerCap Securities, LLC, a registered broker -dealer, where he has advised on numerous SPAC capital raises and strategic transactions. Mr. Wright’s end -to-endSPAC experience includes: •Pre -Combination: Sourcing and evaluating acquisition candidates; •Business Combination: Structuring transactions and securing aligned capital; •Post -Combination: Institutional engagement, messaging refinement, and ongoing market support. 9 Jonathan Rosenzweig — Prior SPAC Experience Jonathan Rosenzweig served as Chief Financial Officer and Secretary and a director of Home Plate Acquisition Corporation1, (“Home Plate”), a special purpose acquisition company from March 2021 until November 2023. Home Plate completed its IPO in September 2021. In March 2023, Home Plate and Heidmar Inc., a company organized and existing under the laws of Marshall Islands entered into a business combination agreement for a merger between the two companies. Because the merger was not able to be completed by October 2023, the time period required by Home Plate’s charter to consummate a business combination, the parties terminated the agreement and Home Plate was liquidated resulting in 100% redemption of the public shares. Collectively, Mr.Dooley, Mr.Wright and Mr.Rosenzweig bring extensive SPAC execution capabilities, a disciplined approach