Kevin Sweeney's areas of academic interest are entrepreneurship, financial technology (FinTech), corporate and entrepreneurial finance, the financial sector, social enterprises, and experiential learning.
Kevin has been a member of the law and business faculties and in administrative leadership roles at various other universities, including Worcester Polytechnic Institute, the University of Hartford, and Western New England University. In addition to his teaching with Babson College, Kevin is currently the academic director of the Financial Industry Management (FIM) Program and a lecturer of finance (banking) with the European-based Luxembourg School of Business. He is also a lecturer in finance with Columbia University's School of Professional Studies and director of immersive education and a lecturer in finance, management, and entrepreneurship with Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts.
Along with his teaching, Kevin maintains a consulting practice focused on experiential learning, entrepreneurship, finance, the financial sector, FinTech, and community and social impact,
Kevin was also previously chief executive officer of a non-profit community economic development and real estate firm in Springfield, Massachusetts. Prior to that, he spent 19 years with MassMutual Financial Group, where he was most recently a managing director of MassMutual Capital Partners LLC responsible for strategic mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, and other transactions. He also held a variety of other executive roles with MassMutual (e.g., senior vice president and chief operating officer of MassMutual International). Kevin has also served internationally on several financial sector and non-profit boards of directors in the United States, Chile, Taiwan, and Luxembourg, including most recently the board of a NASDAQ-traded holding company for a federally chartered bank serving Massachusetts and Connecticut.
