Craig Mullaney

Craig Michael Mullaney (born 1978) is a United States Army veteran and author of The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education (Penguin Press). He was Senior Vice President of Content, Strategy and Operations at Ustream from 2011 to 2013. He also served as Senior Policy Advisor working for the United States Agency for International Development. He currently works on Strategic Partner Development at Facebook. Early life, education and family Raised in a Catholic blue-collar family in Rhode Island, Mullaney was the Bishop Hendricken High School valedictorian and was selected for nomination to the U.S. Military Academy in 1996. While a cadet, Mullaney double-majored in French and History, served as the cadet brigade operations officer in his senior year, and completed over 400 jumps as a nationally ranked member of West Point's sport-parachute team. He graduated second in the West Point Class of 2000. He was handed his diploma by then-Vice President Al Gore. Mullaney attended Lincoln College, Oxford (2000–02) as a Rhodes Scholar. He earned a Master of Science degree in Economic and Diplomatic History and a Master of Studies degree in Historical Research.