1990
1995
1991 Began career at Dollar
Savings Bank in Wheeling
1995 Graduated from West
Liberty University
1996 Joined Prudential
Securities Incorporated
2000
2002 Named a Young Gun
by West Virginia Executive
magazine
2003 Founded McKinley
Investment Group
2005
2010
2015
2007 Founded McKinley
Properties LLC
2007 Earned the Certified
Financial Planner certification
2008 Joined Young
Presidents’ Organization
Mountain State and
Pittsburgh chapters
2009 Appointed to serve as
trustee for the WV Investment
Management Board
2009 Appointed to the
regional advisory board
of the Federal Reserve
Bank of Cleveland
2010 Founded Willow
Glen Capital LLC
2013 Acquired Terradon
Communications Group
and ContactPointe
2015 Acquired Catchpoint
Digital in Wheeling, WV
“I enjoy helping people improve
themselves and their futures and
hope, through the impact of
my efforts, I have inspired others
to do the same.”
employ a collective 60 people with annual
payroll and benefits of more than $5 mil-
lion. While this motivates McKinley to
work hard, his unrelenting drive to help
fellow West Virginians and their commu-
nities is his chief motivator.
“I find great pleasure in producing value
and creating lasting positive impacts on
those around me,” says McKinley. “I see
a world of possibilities and can envision a
better future.”
This unwavering dedication to public
and community service is a family trait
and one of which McKinley is very proud.
“I have a lot of respect for my family’s
historical commitment and impact—gen-
erations of public service dating back more
than 100 years,” he says. “My father, U.S.
Congressman David McKinley, taught me
about the importance of personal respon-
sibility, gave me the confidence required
for entrepreneurship and shared with me
a love for West Virginia and a commit-
ment to public service.”
With such an impressive family legacy
to uphold, it should come as no surprise
that McKinley has plans for public service
in his future.
“With an interest in eventually offering
my business experiences and expertise in
strategy, leadership and finance to help even
more West Virginians, I intend to eventu-
ally seek public office,” he says.
As a result of his upbringing, McKinley
donates his time, talent and resources to
many organizations. He serves as a trustee
of the West Virginia Investment Manage-
ment Board, which manages the state’s $20
billion pension, insurance and endowment
investment programs, and represents North
Central West Virginia on an advisory board
to the Pittsburgh branch of the Federal Re-
serve Bank of Cleveland.
McKinley also uses his experience in
finance and economics to help West Vir-
ginia’s business community. Through col-
laboration with the West Virginia Uni-
versity Bureau of Business and Economic
Research, he has co-chaired statewide and
regional economic outlook conferences in
Charleston and Wheeling.
His commitment to the community is
demonstrated through numerous leader-
ship roles. He is chairman of the finance and
investment committee of the Boy Scouts of
America Ohio River Valley Council, past
chairman and current membership officer for
the Young Presidents’ Organization Moun-
tain State chapter, co-founder of the Com-
munity Fitness Challenge for Executives and
former board of directors member for the
Regional Economic Development Partner-
ship. He is also a member of the Wheeling
Area and West Virginia chambers of com-
merce and Rotary Club of Wheeling.
“I am a big believer in personal respon-
sibility,” says McKinley. “If you give a
man a fish, you’ll feed him for a day, but
if you teach him to fish, you’ll feed him
for a lifetime. I care very much about the
sta