[[Home|🏠]] <span style="color: LightSlateGray">></span> [[People]] <span style="color: LightSlateGray">></span> Alek Derejian **Name:** Alek Derejian **Role:** Vice President - New Zealand Operations **Shares Owned:** **Joined:** 2020-10-1 **Linkedin:** https://www.linkedin.com/in/aderejian/ ![[Pasted image 20241127002841.png|300]] >[!summary] Alek is responsible for the day-to-day operations of Rocket Lab in New Zealand and manages a number of cross-functional teams spanning development, test, and production. > Prior to this role Alek served as the Director – Propulsion Test Complex leading the team charged with component testing, engine assembly, engine testing, stage testing and R&D for the Rutherford and Curie engines. > Before joining Rocket Lab, Alek spent 19 years at Rolls-Royce Plc specializing in Civil and Defence Gas Turbine, design, manufacture, and testing. He was responsible for setting up two engineering centers in Bangalore, India as well as establishing the Enterprise Risk Management framework for R-R across North-East Asia covering technical, business, financial and political risk and business continuity management for the company’s operations across the region. > Alek has a 1st Class (Hons) Degree in Avionic Systems Engineering, a Post Graduate Certificate in Aerospace Design, Manufacture and Management and is a Chartered Engineer with the UK Engineering Council and Institute of Engineering & Technology (IET). > He has held positions as FAA, EASA and CAA NZ Part 145 Senior Person while running three helicopter MRO workshops at Airwork NZ. [Source](https://www.rocketlabusa.com/about/team/) ## 💼 SEC Filings %%DATAVIEW_PUBLISHER: start ``` table Filing_Type as "Filing Type", Filing_Date as "Date" from "Filings" where Insider = [[Alek Derejian]] sort Filing_Date desc ``` %% | File | Filing Type | Date | | ---- | ----------- | ---- | %%DATAVIEW_PUBLISHER: end %% ## 📰 News %%DATAVIEW_PUBLISHER: start ``` table title as "Title", published as "Published" from "News" where contains(insider, [[Alek Derejian]]) sort published desc ``` %% | File | Title | Published | | ---- | ----- | --------- | %%DATAVIEW_PUBLISHER: end %% ## Former Organizations - Airwork Holdings Ltd - Rolls-Royce