LOGTECH Program Staff
Mr. Mark Cramer
Executive Director, Center of Excellence in Logistics & Technology (LOGTECH)
Institute for Defense and Business
Mr. Cramer is President of the Institute for Defense and Business (IDB), a non-profit research and education institute affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also serves as the Executive Director of two centers at the IDB, the Center of Excellence in Logistics and Technology (LOGTECH) and the Center for Stabilization and Economic Reconstruction. Mr. Cramer previously served as Senior Vice President, legal counsel and Executive Secretary of the IDB and was involved in the establishment of the IDB in 1997, and all of its programs and offerings since that time. He currently is also an adjunct faculty member at the Kenan-Flagler Business School, at the University of North Carolina.
An attorney previously in private practice, Mr. Cramer also served from 1995 to 2006 as Executive Director of the Real Estate and Building Industry Coalition, a regional lobbying group for real estate industry trade associations in the Charlotte area. From 1991 to 2003, he served as Secretary, Federal Liaison and legal counsel for the North Carolina Global TransPark Authority, which planned, developed and operated a multi-modal transportation and industrial project.
Mr. Cramer has served on numerous boards and commissions, including service as a Liaison Member of the Administrative Conference of the United States. He currently is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Chamber Foundation and the Logistics Division of the National Defense Industry Association, among other activities. By appointment of the North Carolina Governor, he has served on the N.C. General Statutes Commission and the Blue Ribbon Commission on Urban Transportation Needs. Mr. Cramer has served as Chairman of the Zoning Board of Adjustment for Mecklenburg County and as a member of the Citizen’s Transit Advisory Group. He also served as a member of the U.S. Electoral College in 1992.
Mr. William P. Buzzi
Program Director, LOGTECH
Institute for Defense and Business
Mr. Buzzi is Director of Programs for The Institute for Defense and Business (www.idb.org) and its associated programs. Bill also held the position of adjunct professor of management at the Kenan-Flagler Business School of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Until 1999, he was Assistant Dean and Associate Professor of Law at the Palumbo/Donahue School of Business of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Professor Buzzi received his A.B. in history from Indiana University (Bloomington) and his J.D. from the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis
Bill has held a variety of academic and administrative positions in higher education over the past 25 years, including developing and directing Duquesne's virtual campus for the delivery of online, web-based courses and programs in which he taught an early, totally "online" law course in 1996. He has directed international programs in Europe and Asia, initiated and directed four academic "centers" and was a program director in Executive Education at Kenan-Flagler, developing open enrollment and custom corporate educational programs for clients such as the U.S. Marine Corps, Sprint , AT&T and National Water Executives. He has taught courses in commercial law, contracts, real estate law, legal process, uniform commercial code and law for the executive (MBA) in the U.S, Asia, Europe and South America. Bill has published articles on topics including: total quality management and cooperative learning; using the classics to train managers and leaders; and distance education in a global business environment.
Since joining the Institute in 2000, Bill has developed and directed more than ten distinct executive education programs serving more than 2,000 participants.
He resides in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Mr. Van Noah
Program Director, LOGTECH
Institute for Defense and Business
Mr. Van W. Noah, P.E. joined the Institute for Defense and Business (IDB) as a Program Director in the fall of 2005. He graduated from the LOGTECH MBA as a private sector participant in 2004 and now manages that program and the LOGTECH Advanced Course for the Institute of Defense and Business.
Mr. Noah came to the IDB from an engineering career with the Michael Baker Corporation building the FedEx Mid-Atlantic hub in Greensboro and prior to that building the North Carolina Global TransPark with the State of North Carolina. He has also consulted on environmental and engineering projects in the private sector and with the US Army. He served on active duty with the US Army in the Republic of Korea starting as a Platoon Leader and working his way up to Battalion S4 before being selected to command a company in the 44th Engineer Battalion (Combat Heavy). After the Engineer Officer Advanced Course he reported to the 307th Engineer Battalion (Airborne) in the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg North Carolina where he served in various staff positions including Assistant Division Engineer before obtaining his second company command. Following Command and Service Staff School at Fort Leavenworth Mr. Noah serviced at the Brigade Engineer for the 501st Military Intelligence Brigade in Seoul Korea. He left the military for a Civilian career in 1992 as a Major.
Mr. Noah has a BS in Civil Engineering from the Virginia Military Institute and an MBA from the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University with LOGTECH MBA Certificate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Keenan-Flagler Business School. He is also a registered Professional Engineer.
Ms. Jodi D’Agostino
Program Associate, LOGTECH
Institute for Defense and Business
Ms. D'Agostino began working at the Institute for Defense and Business (IDB) in May of 2009 as a Program Associate for the Center of Excellence in Logistics and Technology (LOGTECH). In this position she helps plan, facilitate, and deliver three executive education programs for the military and private sector in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Ms. D'Agostino is extensively involved in all the program offerings and operations for the LOGTECH Advanced and IU-UNC LogMBA programs. Her responsibilities include core administrative duties such as coordinating class participants’ travel and pre-program arrangements in collaboration with a military contractor and a facility program manager; internal and external program web site updates and maintenance; obtaining, organizing and distributing course materials; acts as primary liaison between program office and contractor’s office; attends program functions and classes as a program representative; plans, coordinates and executes special functions and meetings outside of the programs; provides research and analysis of special projects; and manages program materials and supplies.
Ms. D'Agostino graduated from N.C. State University with a B.S. in Biology.
Mrs. Emily Campbell Craig
Program Associate
Institute for Defense and Business
Emily Campbell Craig came to work at the Institute for Defense and Business (IDB) in the fall of 2009 as a Program Associate for the Center of Excellence in Logistics and Technology (LOGTECH), as well as the Life Cycle Executive Leadership Program (LCELP). Mrs. Craig works on all the program offerings for the LOGTECH Executive and LCELP programs. In this position she assits in planning, facilitating, and delivering executive education programs for the military and private sector in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Mrs. Craig graduated from Erskine College with an B.A. in History.
