Former CIA Officer · U.S. Air Force Pararescue · Founder of DeliverFund

From Pararescue, to the CIA, to the fight of my life.

I spent more than two decades in U.S. special operations and intelligence. Today I apply that tradecraft, advanced technology, and strategic capital to making human exploitation impossible.

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About Nic McKinley

An operator who turned tradecraft on the world's hardest problem.

Nic McKinley grew up in Montana and left to join U.S. Air Force Pararescue, one of the most demanding career fields in special operations. Over more than a decade as a Pararescueman he deployed repeatedly into the world's most dangerous places, building a reputation for going where the mission required and bringing people back.

He was later recruited into the Central Intelligence Agency, where he rose to country chief of a specialized unit. It was inside the intelligence community that he saw the scale of child exploitation up close — and recognized that the same tradecraft used to dismantle terrorist and insurgent networks could be turned against human traffickers.

In 2014 he left the CIA to found DeliverFund, a nonprofit intelligence organization that equips law enforcement with the technology and analysis to find traffickers and rescue victims. A Harvard-educated entrepreneur and three-time technology founder, he has since built data and AI companies dedicated to turning overwhelming information into decisions that matter.

VICE Media called him the real-life Jack Ryan. He answers to husband and father first — leading his family in a life of service from Montana.

My Why

The moment that changed everything — from operator to founder, from service to mission.

Twenty-five years of elite service

From special operations to the intelligence community to the front line of counter-trafficking — a single thread runs through it: going after the hardest problems with discipline and tradecraft.

  1. U.S. Air Force PararescueMore than a decade in special operationsTrained and served as a Pararescueman — combat search and rescue — across repeated deployments to the world's most hostile environments.
  2. Central Intelligence AgencyIntelligence officer, country chief of a special unitRecruited into the CIA and rose to lead a specialized unit, where he witnessed firsthand the scale of global child exploitation.
  3. Harvard UniversityBachelor of Liberal ArtsCompleted a Harvard degree, later trading a master's program to build a venture-backed software company.
  4. 2014 — DeliverFundFounder & ChairmanFounded the first nonprofit to apply counterterrorism methodology to human trafficking — delivering intelligence and technology to law enforcement.
  5. TodayThree-time tech founder & investorBuilds data and AI companies focused on decision intelligence, and advises founders and investors across deep tech and high-performance computing.

Institutional Background

The Mission

DeliverFund: counterterrorism tradecraft, turned on traffickers.

DeliverFund is a nonprofit intelligence organization that equips law enforcement with the technology, data, and training to dismantle human trafficking networks and rescue victims. It is the clearest expression of Nic's mission — and the place where your support has direct, measurable impact.

3,000+Intelligence reports delivered
1,000+Law enforcement trained
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In the Press

“The real-life Jack Ryan.”

SPYSCAPEHow Ex-CIA Officer Nic McKinley Dodged Bullets, Spies & Built a War on TraffickingRead the storyYAHOOThe Real-Life Jack Ryan Declares War on Human TraffickingRead the storyVICEAn inside look at the intelligence-driven fight against traffickingRead the story
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