"Adding Mike as a co-chair gives the campaign a stronger presence in the Northeastern U.S. and gives us the benefit of his vast business and volunteer fund-raising experience," said Matt Kupec, the University's vice chancellor for advancement and director of Carolina First.
"This is an important and exciting time for the University," Overlock said. "We are calling on all alumni and friends to help build our endowment and enhance our operating funds to ensure that Carolina is recognized as the nation's leading public university."
Overlock joined Goldman, Sachs & Co. in 1973 and was elected partner
in 1982. He headed the firm's Mergers and Acquisition department from
1985 to 1996. Overlock served on the Management Committee and was co-head
of the Investment Banking Division from 1990 to 1996. He became a limited
partner of the firm in 1996 and senior director in 1999.
Overlock serves on the 50-member Carolina First steering committee. He
served on the campaign cabinet charged with planning and setting goals
for Carolina First and chaired that group's budget committee.
Overlock is vice chairman of Carolina's Arts and Sciences Foundation,
a member of the board of overseers of the Columbia Graduate School of
Business and a trustee of the Kent School. He chaired the Juvenile Diabetes
Research Foundation International and was a member of its board from 1992
to 1998.
Overlock received a bachelor's degree in economics from Carolina in 1968
and an MBA from Columbia in 1973.
He served in the U.S. Army as a first lieutenant in Vietnam from 1970
to 1971. He and his wife, Trina, have three children, one of whom is a
Carolina graduate.