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, migrating quickly into operational research and development. In 1986, Central Data affiliated with Technologies B Systèmes (Paris, France) and expanded into the area of meta-data technologies. The companies conducted projects world-wide (North and South America, West and East Europe, South America and Africa).

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

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 Chair of the Information Technology Department, oversaw the building of a new technology center at the 4-campus institution and wrote a textbook published by Addison Wesley (Simon & Schuster) on databases.

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 by affiliating with the largest independent youth organization in America. CDC created the first on-line student "portal" which grew to several million PIM. This project spawned CDC's development of the first on-line "learning system". In 2007, that learning system was sold and became the foundation for the largest on-line learning system in the world, still in operation today.

Craig has six children and lives in the mountains of the Blue Ridge. He serves on several private and government boards, and stays active in project development and keeping up with grandkids. He formed the T.C. Hilton Foundation in 2007, in memory of his father, Theodore Caldwell Hilton. The Foundation, where Craig presently serves as Executive Director, provides educational outreach programs and career assistance.