Program Staff
Mr. Van W. Noah, P.E.
Program Director, LCELP
Institute for Defense and Business
Van Noah 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, the LOGTECH Advanced Course, and the Life Cycle Executive Leadership Program (LCELP) 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.
Dr. D. Clay Whybark
Senior Faculty Advisor, LCELP
Macon D. Patton Distinguished Professor of Operations, Technology and
Innovation Management
Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Clay Whybark is Macon G. Patton Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler School of Business. International manufacturing practices, supply chain management and manufacturing planning and control systems are among his areas of expertise.
His industrial experience was with the Boeing Company and Douglas Aircraft. He has served as a consultant to a number of corporate and governmental organizations in various parts of the world.
Dr. Whybark has held positions at universities in New Zealand, Switzerland, China, Hong Kong, Peru, and Chile as well as Indiana, Purdue, Harvard, Arizona State, and Stanford in the United States. He has taught in executive education and presented seminars, some in Spanish, throughout the world. He is also a fellow and past president of the International Society for Inventory Research as well as a fellow and distinguished global leader of the Pan Pacific Business Association.
The author of more than 200 papers and business cases (two of which won European POM case-of-the-year awards) in the areas of operations and logistics management. Dr. Whybark is the author or co-author of several books, including Why ERP?, Manufacturing Planning and Control Systems for Supply Chain Management, and Global Manufacturing Practices.
Mrs. Emily Campbell Craig
Program Associate
Institute for Defense and Business
Emily Craig came to work at the Institute for Defense and Business (IDB) in the fall of 2009 as a Program Associate for the Life Cycle Executive Leadership Program (LCELP), as well as the Center of Excellence in Logistics and Technology (LOGTECH) and the Logistics for the 21st Century (Log21) course. Mrs. Craig works on all the program offerings for the LCELP, LOGTECH Executive, and Log21 programs. In this position she assists 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.