Kevin M. Sweeney, J.D., M.B.A.
Principal

Areas of Focus:

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• Business Strategies for Firms of All Sizes

• Experiential Educational Programs

• Corporate & Entrepreneurial Finance

• Financial Sector & FinTech

• Entrepreneurship (Small & Family Businesses)

• Social Enterprises

• Corporate Governance

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​Biographical Details:

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In addition to my work with Sweeney Strategic, I currently also teach finance, financial sector management, and entrepreneurship and support experiential and global online education innovation at these academic institutions:​

 

• Director of Strategic Partnerships for Experiential Education | Lecturer - Finance, Management, and Entrepreneurship 

  • ​​​Suffolk University - Sawyer Business School, Boston, MA (2021 - Present)

• Academic Director | Professor of Banking

  • Luxembourg School of Business​ - Financial Services Program, Luxembourg, LU (2022 - Present)

• Lecturer - Finance 

  • ​​Columbia University - School of Professional Studies, New York, NY (2011 - Present)

• Lecturer - Entrepreneurship

  • ​Babson College - Entrepreneurship Division, Wellesley, MA (2021 - Present) 

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I previously served as Assistant Dean of the Barney School of Business at the University of Hartford from 2019 to 2021. I was also a full-time Professor of Practice of Finance from 2012 to 2019 with the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Business School faculty where I was the Director of both the Wall Street/FinTech Project Center and the Pioneer Valley Project Center and the Faculty Co-Coordinator of the WPI FinTech Collaborative.  Since 2006, I have also served in a variety of additional adjunct faculty roles in finance, strategy, and law with WPI, Western New England University, and Elms College.

 

In the nearly 20 years prior to starting Sweeney Strategic Consulting in 2012, I held a variety of executive roles with MassMutual Financial Group, where I was most recently Managing Director of MassMutual Capital Partners LLC. In that capacity, I led strategic mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, and other transactions worldwide.  I also held other leadership positions at MassMutual, including Senior Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, and Regional Executive for Europe and Latin America (MassMutual International - MMI), Associate General Counsel of MassMutual, and Chief Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of MMI. 

 

I have a longstanding passion for supporting the critical needs of students, families, entrepreneurs, and other community stakeholders through hands-on social impact. I have worked to address homeownership challenges, small business creation, and elder and family care issues. I have also led efforts for capital-creation and economic development in New England with a focus on Massachusetts and Connecticut.  Here are some examples:

 

• Encore Fellow: University of Connecticut School of Public Policy (I led feasibility analysis and strategic business plan development for Bridgeport-based Building Neighborhoods Together for an affordable housing-focused Community Development Financial Institution--CDFI--in Southern Connecticut).   

• President & CEO: DevelopSpringfield, Springfield, MA.  

• Board of Directors Member: Common Capital, Holyoke & Springfield, MA (CDFI for small business funding in traditionally underserved communities in Western Massachusetts and parts of Connecticut).  

• Advisory Board Member: Business Growth Center (formerly Scibelli Enterprise Center Business Incubator), Springfield MA. 

• President - Board of Directors: Springfield Technical Community College Foundation.​

• Board Member and Various Leadership Roles (e.g., Chairperson): Several corporate boards of directors locally and globally, including international financial firms in Asia, South America, and Europe, the MassMutual Trust Company, FSB, and a U.S. NASDAQ-traded bank holding company - Western New England Bancorp, Inc.  

 

I received my M.B.A. jointly from New York University Stern School of Business, the London School of Economics & Political Science, and the HEC School of Management in Paris as a graduate of TRIUM, my Doctor of Law (J.D.) from the University of Wisconsin Law School, and my B.A. from the University of Massachusetts – Amherst.