Air Commerce Faculty

Noel P. Greis, Ph.D. [details]
Director, Center for Logistics and Digital Strategy

Research Associates

Charles H.W. Edwards, BA, MSc, MBA
Eugenio L. Facci
Jonathan D. Green []
David Sullivan []

Charles H.W. Edwards, BA, MSc, MBA

Mr. Edwards is the Vice President and General Manager of Aerospace Composite Structures of Albuquerque, New Mexico. From 2002 to 2003 he was Executive Director of the North Carolina Global TransPark, an innovative air-industrial park. He was senior logistics advisor to and then President of CargoLifter, Inc., which designed and built one of the largest air vehicles, from 1994 through 2002. Prior to that, he was the international aviation consultant for a major U.S.-based engineering firm. From 1981 through 1989, Mr. Edwards held senior management positions with Orion Air, Inc., a contract airline that created UPS Airlines, including Director-System Operations and Senior Director–Marketing. Formerly a Lecturer at the University of Virginia’s Darden School, he is a Senior Advisor to the Center for Air Commerce at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a member of the Education Committee of The International Air Cargo Association.

Eugenio L. Facci

An Organizational Science major from Bocconi University in Milan, Mr. Facci focuses his research on organizational failures in the aerospace industry, aviation human factors, aircraft accidents and aviation safety in general. He has worked extensively on the American Airlines 587 accident and on archival research that drew on his extensive knowledge of past NTSB accident reports. A scientific advisor to the leading Italian aviation magazine Volare, he is frequently quoted in the Italian media on matters of aviation safety. Mr. Facci is a FAA licensed pilot and has conducted research on aviation safety with faculty from Harvard, MIT, University of Michigan at Ann Harbor, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Florida and University of Central Florida.

Recently he has expanded his research interests to include the impact of organizational issues on strategy decisions and the effect of framing effects and the heuristics of judgment on decision making, both on a collective and individual basis.

Jonathan D. Green

Mr. Green is Senior Research Associate to the Kenan Institute, working primarily on data-driven research and analysis, knowledge management and electronic marketing. His specialties are business intelligence and knowledge management. He has served in support of numerous domestic and international research efforts, including projects for Boeing, FedEx and Lufthansa as well as the governments of China, The Philippines, Thailand and the United States.

In 2005, Mr. Green co-authored "Air Cargo as and Economic Development Engine" for the International Air Cargo Association which was subsequently published by the Journal of Air Transport Management. In addition, in 1998 he co-authored "The Air Express Industry Study," a study on Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) trends in the global air cargo industry. He continues to contribute to numerous studies and presentations on airport-driven development. His current efforts are focused on an internet-based knowledge management and business intelligence.

Previously Mr. Green worked as a computing consultant and held positions in marketing research and applications programming. He received both his M.A. degree in Sociology and a B.B.A. in Marketing from Marshall University.

David Sullivan

Mr. Sullivan is the Senior Associate for Research Services at the Kenan Institute and is a primary research and analysis resource for the Director and the eight Centers of the Institute. He is a subject-matter specialist in the fields of air commerce, logistics and supply chains, military logistics, demographics and competitive intelligence.

For the Center for Air Commerce, he is coordinating a Data Sharing Initiative using aggregate data from the three major air cargo integrators in the U.S., including designing the Initiative framework, preparing presentations describing key benefits of Initiative for use with targeted decision makers, and conducting negotiations with potential participants.

Prior to his work at the Institute, Mr. Sullivan was an Analyst with Cambridge Strategic Management Group, a strategy consulting firm in Boston, MA. He holds an MS in Library Science from Simmons College and a BA in Political Science from The George Washington University.