Kevin Sweeney's areas of academic interest are entrepreneurship, corporate and entrepreneurial finance, the financial sector, social enterprises, and experiential learning.
In addition to his teaching with Babson College, Kevin is currently a full-time associate professor of practice and member of the business faculty of American International College in Springfield, Massachusetts. And he is a lecturer of finance (banking) with the Luxembourg School of Business in Europe, where he was the founding academic director of the Financial Industry Management (FIM) Program. During more than two decades, Kevin has also been both an adjunct and full-time member of the law and business faculties and in administrative leadership roles at various other universities, including Columbia Univeristy, Suffolk University, the University of Hartford, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and Western New England University.
Along with his teaching, Kevin maintains a consulting practice focused on experiential learning, entrepreneurship, finance, the financial sector, 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. 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 management and legal roles with MassMutual (e.g., senior vice president and chief operating officer of MassMutual International).
Kevin has also served globally 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.
