Before joining CAMBIAR, Lock Collins held the position of Chief Talent Officer for NOP World, a $400 million global market research company. Prior to NOP, Lock was the Group HR Director for Research International, where he was responsible for Group-wide HR initiatives and also held the position of Executive Vice-President and was a member of the Executive Committee for Research International's US business. Lock has also held senior Human Resources leadership positions, both internationally and domestically, with Honeywell and Emerson Electric. At Emerson, while living in London, Lock had HR leadership responsibility for the process control business, encompassing over 20 countries in Western and Central Europe as well as the Middle East.

He has hands-on experience in most HR disciplines, along with considerable expertise in the effective integration of companies and cultures. Lock holds an undergraduate degree in Business and Political Science at St. Cloud State University with further specialist business education at New York University