Company: MKLY
Filing Date: 2025-06-17
Form Type: DRS/A
Source: 0001213900-25-054874
Chunk: 14

Company: McKinley Acquisition Corp
Filing Date: 2025-06-17
Form: DRS/A
Chunk 14
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Adam Dooley — Chairman Mr. Dooley has served as our Chairman since May 2025. Mr. Dooley is an accomplished financial services executive with nearly 30 years of experience in private equity, capital markets, and wealth management. His career spans senior leadership roles in both public and private companies, with a focus on transformation, investor alignment, and long -termvalue creation. Since January 2021, Mr. Dooley has served as the Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Belay International Corporation, a private equity firm that partners with experienced executives and institutional investors to identify and scale high -growthbusinesses. He is also the Founder and Managing Principal of Belay Associates, a dedicated SPAC sponsor platform focused on executing business combinations with companies poised for public market success. Prior to founding Belay, Mr. Dooley served as President of PREP Securities, a registered broker -dealeraffiliated with a national real estate investment and development company, from December 2019 to December 2020. From February 2014 to December 2019, he was a Managing Director and Partner at CR Capital Group LLC, where he formed joint ventures with leading alternative investment firms to build capital formation platforms targeting the private wealth channel. Earlier in his career, Mr. Dooley held multiple senior roles at MetLife, Inc., including Managing Director and Head of Wealth Management for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) from 2008 to 2012, where he led operations across 12 countries, and Vice President and National Sales Manager for U.S. Individual Retirement Savings from 2012 to 2013. Prior to joining MetLife, Mr. Dooley led The Hartford’s United Kingdom business as Vice President and Country Manager, where he was responsible for expanding The Hartford’s international platform. Mr. Dooley began his financial career in the Fixed Income Trading Division at Salomon Smith Barney in 1994 and later transitioned to the firm’s Private Client Group as an Investment Advisor. Mr. Dooley holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Southern California, where he studied at the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, and an MBA from IMD Business School in Lausanne, Switzerland. At IMD, he was awarded the International Consulting Project Award for his strategic work with Swiss Life and Bain & Company on the European financial advisory sector. Mr. Dooley is also the author of The Pre -IPO Playbook, a guide for