Craig Overlock
Partner

Craig Overlock has unusually deep and versatile experience in senior level recruiting, including over 15 years in retained executive search. He has conducted over 150 executive searches for high level, high impact scientific, marketing, financial, sales, technology, human resources and general management positions for such prominent clients as Kraft, ConAgra, Coca-Cola, Dole, Ocean Spray, Welch Foods, Keebler, The Walt Disney Company, and dozens of other companies. As a veteran recruiter and assessor, he also assists clients with assessment tools that are of particular value with extraordinarily complex hiring situations.

Prior to Came | Sweeney, Mr. Overlock was a Managing Consultant in the Chicago office of a top tier international executive search firm, where he conducted searches in the consumer, industrial, health care and financial services industries. Before that, he was a senior search consultant for a “Big Six” accounting and consulting firm, where he conducted search assignments for clients in many industries.

In addition to his executive search experience, Mr. Overlock has substantial in-house recruitment experience, having managed the staffing function for Helene Curtis, Inc., a worldwide supplier of personal care products. At HCI he facilitated the professional and executive staffing initiative for the research & development, and manufacturing divisions during the most explosive period of growth and change in the company’s 80-year history. He also designed and presented candidate assessment tools and coaching to managers and executives.

Mr. Overlock received his M.S. degree from Loyola University Chicago’s Institute of Industrial Relations, with concentration in organization development---still an area of great personal and professional interest as he helps clients define and assess human capital gaps and adopt productive solutions.

Mr. Overlock is a Professional member of the Human Capital Institute, the Human Resources Strategy Forum, and Past President and Director of the Industrial Relations Alumni Board at Loyola.

A resident of Los Angeles, Mr. Overlock’s civic interests include municipal government, urban youth support and community development initiatives, and numerous health research foundations. He is a member of the Union League Club (Chicago) Civic & Arts Foundation, and Past President of the Mont Calabasas Association.

Please contact Mr.Overlock in our Los Angeles office at 818-878-1760 or craig_overlock@camesweeney.com.