[[Home|🏠]] <span style="color: LightSlateGray">></span> [[People]] <span style="color: LightSlateGray">></span> Edward H. Frank #board-member **Name:** Edward H. Frank **Role:** Independent Director **Shares Owned:** 146,044 **Joined:** 2022-09-06 **Linkedin:** https://www.linkedin.com/in/edfrank/ ![[Pasted image 20241126235446.png|300]] >[!summary] **Dr. Edward Frank** was appointed to the board of Rocket Lab in 2022. He joins the board following more than 35 years of leadership in innovative technology companies, including serving at Apple, Inc. from 2009 until 2013 as Vice President, Macintosh Hardware Systems Engineering. Dr. Frank also served as Corporate Vice President, Research and Development, of Broadcom Corp, a leading developer of integrated circuits for broadband communication. Dr. Frank was the founding CEO of Epigram, Inc., a developer of integrated circuits and software for home networking, which Broadcom acquired in 1999. Presently, Dr. Frank is Executive Chair of Gradient Technologies, an early-stage company delivering next-generation secure identity overlay solutions based on its proprietary cyber-security mesh. Dr. Frank is a named inventor on over 50 patents. Dr. Frank serves on the Boards of Directors of Analog Devices Inc. (Nasdaq: ADI) and SiTime Corp. (Nasdaq: SITM), as well as being a board member and advisor to several private companies. Dr. Frank holds BSEE and MSEE degrees from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, where he was a Hertz Foundation Fellow, and where has been a member of its Board of Trustees since 2000. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for his contributions to the commercialization of WiFi, is a Fellow of the IEEE, and is a National Association of Corporation Directors Board Leadership Fellow. [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 = [[Edward H. Frank]] sort Filing_Date desc ``` %% | File | Filing Type | Date | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------ | ------------------ | | [[Filings/2024/Form 4/12-12-24 Form 4 - Edward H. Frank.md\|12-12-24 Form 4 - Edward H. Frank]] | [[Filings/Filing Definitions.md#Form 4\|Form 4]] | December 12, 2024 | | [[Filings/2024/Form 4/6-14-24 Form 4 - Edward Frank.md\|6-14-24 Form 4 - Edward Frank]] | [[Filings/Filing Definitions.md#Form 4\|Form 4]] | June 14, 2024 | | [[Filings/2023/Form 4/9-14-23 Form 4 - Edward Frank.md\|9-14-23 Form 4 - Edward Frank]] | [[Filings/Filing Definitions.md#Form 4\|Form 4]] | September 14, 2023 | | [[Filings/2023/Form 4/6-16-23 Form 4 - Edward Frank.md\|6-16-23 Form 4 - Edward Frank]] | [[Filings/Filing Definitions.md#Form 4\|Form 4]] | June 16, 2023 | | [[Filings/2022/Form 4/9-07-22 Form 4 - Edward Frank.md\|9-07-22 Form 4 - Edward Frank]] | [[Filings/Filing Definitions.md#Form 4\|Form 4]] | September 07, 2022 | | [[Filings/2022/Form 3/9-07-22 Form 3 - Edward Frank.md\|9-07-22 Form 3 - Edward Frank]] | [[Filings/Filing Definitions.md#Form 3\|Form 3]] | September 07, 2022 | | [[Filings/2022/8-K/9-06-22 8-K - Edward H. Frank Appointed to Board.md\|9-06-22 8-K - Edward H. Frank Appointed to Board]] | [[Filings/Filing Definitions.md#8-K\|8-K]] | September 02, 2022 | %%DATAVIEW_PUBLISHER: end %% ## 📰 News %%DATAVIEW_PUBLISHER: start ``` table title as "Title", published as "Published" from "News" where contains(insider, [[Edward H. Frank]]) sort published desc ``` %% | File | Title | Published | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------ | | [[News/Rocket Lab Welcomes Dr. Edward Frank to Board of Directors.md\|Rocket Lab Welcomes Dr. Edward Frank to Board of Directors]] | Rocket Lab Welcomes Dr. Edward Frank to Board of Directors | September 06, 2022 | %%DATAVIEW_PUBLISHER: end %% ## Former Organizations - NIST - Sun Microsystems - Broadcom - Apple - IEEE ## Notes - Worked at Broadcom during the same time period as [[Adam Spice]] and [[Brad Warezak]]