Cleared Hot with Andy Stumpf · December 2022
Episode 265 - CEO and Founder of DeliverFund
Nic McKinley's first Cleared Hot appearance - the founding story of DeliverFund, the intelligence architecture behind it, and the operational mindset required to build an organization that puts former intelligence officers and special operations veterans to work hunting traffickers.
Key Takeaways
- DeliverFund began with a specific hypothesis: that intelligence tradecraft, applied systematically, could give law enforcement an asymmetric advantage against trafficking networks.
- The first challenge was not the mission - it was explaining to donors, law enforcement, and partners what a private intelligence organization actually does.
- What it took to build a team of former CIA officers and special operations veterans around a mission that pays significantly less than their previous careers.
- The moment Nic McKinley knew the model worked - and what it revealed about how much capability was sitting unused outside government.
From the episode
As an Operative who served as a Country Chief for a Special Unit within the CIA, Nic witnessed not only the epidemic of child trafficking within illicit markets but also the unrealized opportunity ...
DeliverFund was officially established as a 501c3 in October 2014 and our counter-human trafficking organization focused on ending sex slavery in the United States got to work.
Nic spent 11 years in US Special Operations as an Air Force Pararescueman prior to being recruited to the Central Intelligence Agency.
Nic has a firm understanding of these illicit, illegal markets and has the highest levels of training to effectively combat them.