Born in the Bay Area of California and raised in Los Angeles, Craig graduated with joint-program degrees from Occidental College (US State Dept program) and the California Institute of Technology (Molecular Chemistry).

Craig formed Central Data Corporaton in 1984 to develop the first on-line ACCORD system for Transamerica Corp. In 1986, Central Data affiliated with Technologies B Systèmes (Paris, France) and expanded into the area of research and develoment and metadata technologies. The companies conducted projects world-wide (North and South America, West and East Europe, South America and Africa).

Central Data created, funded and filed patents on numerous technologies including the first "autonomous networkable robots" (later "swarms"), an early "wearable biometric tracking device" (later "smart" watches) and an early fully-integrated self-auditing accounting system.

While running Central Data, Craig wrote a textbook published by Addison Wesley (Simon & Schuster) on databases (with Russian and Japanese language editions).

Taking a three year sabbatical from Central Data, Craig served as a professor at the Gateway State College (Florida) where he concurrently earned a Masters in Computer Science, was appointed Chair of the Information Technology Department and oversaw the building of a new technology center at the 4-campus institution.

For five years beginning in 1990, Craig was asked to function as Principal Investigator for various classified U.S. government projects.

Returning to Central Data, Craig re-focused the company on education projects and affiliated with the largest independent youth organization in America. CDC created an early on-line student "portal" which grew to several million PIM. This project spawned CDC's development of it's early on-line "learning system" and associated patents. In 2007, that learning system was sold and became the foundation for one of the largest on-line learning systems in the world, still in operation today.

Craig has six children and lives in the foothills of the Blue Ridge. He serves on several boards, and stays active in project development and keeping up with grandkids. In 2008, he formed the T.C. Hilton Foundation in memory of the passing of his father, Theodore Caldwell Hilton. The Foundation, where Craig presently serves as Executive Director, provides educational outreach programs and career assistance.