Big Coop executive bios

J Albert Sweeney II, for the past five years has worked to develop value-based E-commerce, creating the architecture for a complete E-commerce small business solution product. He has directed development of the finished product, created a marketing plan for international expansion, established supplier/vendor relations and created an international network of independent business associates to assure rapid expansion of BigCoop.com's operations.

With 20 years marketing and management experience plus six years of extensive Internet e-commerce experience, he previously served as President and CEO of Innovative Technologies International (ITI), Executive VP of The Environmental Network, and Co-chairman and COO of PriceNetUSA.com.

In 1982, with a sales organization of 20,000+ direct sales independent representatives, Mr. Sweeney commenced learning computer science to provide real-time information and motivation to the field. He authored A Shortcut to Financial Freedom in 1983 and since then has virtually lived with emerging Internet technology, developing a proficiency beyond that found in a senior executive. He is most knowledgeable in EDI, database systems (SQL), web site design (HTML, DHTML, ASP, VISUAL Interdev, XML), email management, electronic marketing and promotion techniques.

He is a graduate of Southern Adventist University, Collegedale, Tennessee

Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. announced that agents from his office, working with law enforcement in Tennessee and Nevada, arrested two individuals earlier this week for stealing millions of dollars through “phony stock sales” and an illegal pyramid scheme. The defendants — James A. Sweeney, II, 62, of Afton, TN and Patrick M. Ryan, 34, of Canyon Lake, CA — were arrested on June 3, 2009 in Afton, TN and Las Vegas, NV, respectively, and are being held until they are extradited to Riverside County. Both face 78 counts of grand theft and securities fraud. Bail has been set at $8.8 million each.