Company: MKLY
Filing Date: 2025-07-25
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001213900-25-067524
Chunk: 23

Company: McKinley Acquisition Corp
Filing Date: 2025-07-25
Form: S-1/A
Chunk 23
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 a member of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee for the Bank Insurance & Securities Association (BISA). In recognition of his leadership, he was named to Investment News Hot List 2023 and received the Wealth Solutions Report Pathfinder Award as one of the top Black leaders in wealth management. Mr. Beard holds a Bachelor of Arts in Finance from Kent State University. We believe that Mr.Beard’s experience in acquisition strategy, comprehensive planning processes for acquisitions, investment distribution and business advisory work, make him well qualified to serve as a member of our board of directors. Together, we believe our directors bring additional expertise that will enhance our ability to identify and execute our initial business combination, and may enhance our ability to execute upon various value creation initiatives after successful completion of our business combination. Notwithstanding the foregoing, past experience or performance of our management team and their respective affiliates is not a guarantee of either (1) our ability to successfully identify and execute a business combination or (2) success with respect to any business combination that we may consummate. You should not rely on the historical record of our management team or their respective affiliates as indicative of future performance. Our management team and their respective affiliates have been involved with a large number of public and private companies in addition to those identified above, not all of which have achieved similar performance levels. See “ Risk Factors — Past performance by our management team and their affiliates may not be indicative of future performance of an investment in the company.”For a complete list of our executive officers and entities for which a conflict of interest may or does exist between such officers and the company, please refer to “ Management — Conflicts of Interest.” Prior SPAC Experience Adam Dooley — SPAC Leadership and Sponsor Execution Mr.Dooley is the Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Belay International Corporation, a private equity and investment platform that partners with experienced operators and institutional capital to identify and scale high -potentialbusinesses. He is also the Founder and Managing Principal of Belay Associates, a SPAC sponsor platform focused on executing business combinations with companies well -positionedfor long -termgrowth and public market success. 8 Mr.Dooley is also the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Everest Consolidator Acquisition Corporation, a special purpose acquisition company (“Everest”). Everest completed its IPO in November 2021. On May19, 2023, Everest entered into a business combination agreement with Unifund Financial Technologies, Inc. (“Unifund”), which agreement was terminated by Everest on October1, 2024. On November22