Craig's professional sales and sales management career spans 19 years. During this time he has amassed substantial experience in building sales teams, marketing, mergers and acquisitions, public relations, recruiting, hiring, training, and motivating. Craig is considered to be an expert on the job market, staffing industry and recruiting trends. He has been quoted by the press in publications such as: The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, San Francisco Business Journal, Fortune.com, Knowledge Management Magazine and Staffing Industry Review. Craig has been invited to speak regularly to groups such as the American Staffing Association, Pinnacle Society, Churchill Club, TiE, NACCB, and the Software Publisher's Association. He attended the University of Texas at Austin, and in 2000 completed the Harvard Business School, OPM - Key Executive Program.

Craig is the Executive Vice President, Sales & Marketing for HireAbility.com - The Recruiting Network where he is responsible for building a new model for the staffing industry by banding together a global network of independent recruiters, corporate recruiters and staffing firms to form a Recruiting and Candidate Exchange Network that works together to staff positions across all major staffing markets. HireAbility has 350+ staffing organizations working as part of their Recruiting Network. HireAbility also develops the ALEX résumé processing software that powers solutions from leading providers of job sites, Applicant Tracking Systems, and HR Information Systems.

Prior to HireAbility.com, Craig was the Senior Vice President for TMP Worldwide/Hudson Global Resources (HHGP) and with Hall Kinion (HAKI on NASDAQ) as Executive Vice President of Recruiting Services. He was successful in growing the Hall Kinion (HK) recruiting business from annual revenues of $30M to $296M while opening 44 new sales offices, and hiring 400 recruiters. During this time, Craig was an active member of the HK executive team helping with the company IPO in August of 1997, secondary public offering in 2000 and with the due diligence and integration of five acquisitions. While Craig was responsible for sales, marketing and training at HK they were included as #24 on the Forbes Magazine list of “Best” companies to work for and added to the S&P Small Cap Index. From 1989-1996, Craig spent six years as Vice President of Sales and Strategic Consulting with Strategic Mapping, Inc., a leading developer of GIS software and data for business applications. During his time with Strategic Mapping, he grew annual software sales revenue from $1M to $25M.

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