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Kevin Sweeney has been associated with Celtic Football Club since the early 90's.
He is a solicitor who specialises in company law and commercial transactions, and is also a qualified chartered accountant. He is currently an independent and non-executive director of Celtic Football and Athletic Club.
He first joined Celtic as Company Secretary in 1994. He had been solicitor to the Scottish Football Association for 20 years prior to 1994 and a senior partner at Glasgow law firm McGrigor Donald. As Company Secretary he was fundamentally involved with Fergus McCann's reform of the club from a family-run association to a full commercial business with a mass shareholding base and as a major corporate entity as well as a football club and everything that Celtic has stood for since 1888. He stood as Secretary till the end of the 1997-98 season when he stood down (to be superceded by Heather-Anne Barton as Company Secretary) to become a non-executive director of Celtic plc. He also becam a non-executive director of the subsidiary to the plc Board, that of Celtic Football and Athletic Club.
It was announced during the 2006/07 season that Mr. Sweeney did not intend to stand for re-election to the plc Board. It is believed that he continues his membership of the CFAC Board.