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Management Profiles—The Initiatives

Judith CrockerM. Judith Crocker Ed. D.
Director, Manufacturing Education Affairs

Judith Crocker leads MAGNET’s efforts to work with regional educational institutions to help them identify the education and training needs of manufacturers.

Before joining MAGNET, Crocker served as Director of Corporate and Community Outreach Services, Executive Director of Workforce Development at Lorain County Community College. She has also worked with the Cleveland City Schools delivering workforce education programs.

Crocker holds a Bachelors degree in Education from the University of Toledo; a Masters of Education degree from the University of Utah and a Doctor of Education degree from the University of Utah. She is a member of numerous professional organizations including the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, University Continuing Education Association, Association for Career and Technical Education and the Greater Cleveland Adult Education Council.

Randolph R. NemetzRandolph R. Nemetz
Director, Global Affairs

Randolph R. Nemetz, a Northeast Ohio native, has extensive commercial experience in operating globally focused activities including identification, evaluation, acquisition, startup, and operations of various types of commercial arrangements servicing numerous export markets. He was formerly General Manager at NutriScience Technologies, a Mitsui Company. NutriScience is a multi-business holding company focused on specialty chemicals and additives, with operations in the US, Brazil, England and Australia.

Nemetz's business and cultural travel activities include visits to more than 25 countries with the majority of his commercial focus on the MERCOSUR, EU, NAFTA and Asian markets.

Nemetz manages MAGNET’s Global Development Initiative, a clearinghouse for individual manufacturers looking for qualified service providers in the region. With the recent addition of the World Trade Center and the development of the Global Sourcing Center, MAGNET will soon provide regional manufacturers with access to revenue-growing global services.

Nemetz holds an MBA from Baldwin Wallace College and a Bachelors of Science Degree in Business Administration from The Ohio State University.

John H. SchoberJohn H. Schober
Director, Innovation

Schober directs programs and activities that help manufacturers utilize best practices in innovation as a means to accelerating growth and enhancing competitiveness. He is also building partnerships throughout the region that help create a culture of innovation throughout the manufacturing community.

In his prior experience at Delphi Corporation and GrafTech International, Schober held positions in application engineering, marketing, operations, research and development, and sales.  In his more recent roles, he led efforts to develop commercial opportunities in the respective companies’ non-core markets, which included appliances, specialty vehicles, consumer electronics, building and construction, advanced energy and lighting.

A 1997 graduate of Case Western Reserve University with a Bachelor of Science in Materials Science and Engineering, Schober went on to earn his Master of Science in Manufacturing and Systems Engineering  and a Master of Business Administration from the graduate schools at Stanford University.