Biography

Michael William Sweeney is the Director of Online Strategies at OutsideIn Research. Since the Spring of 2010, Michael has built out the online networks platform at The ProActive Network and now he brings that expertise to Film Annex. Mike has over fifteen years of experience in financial markets at Waterville Research and at Stanhope Capital, a private equity firm which focused on Small-Cap technology and medical companies.

Prior to Stanhope, Mike worked at Shearson Lehman Brothers and Chase Securities. In the technology field, Mike was the Co-Founder of 4th Peripheral Technologies, a wireless speech/telecommunications company in Silicon Valley that was taken over by a management team from Motorola and Lucent.

Mike received his M.B.A. in 1989 from The Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, and his B.A. in 1984 from Boston College. He is very active in a number of Autism causes and charities including The Hawthorne Foundation, a pioneering school for Autistic children in Manhattan and Westchester. The Sweeney's also participate in the Simons Simplex Collection at Columbia University Medical Center.