[[Home|🏠]] <span style="color: LightSlateGray">></span> [[People]] <span style="color: LightSlateGray">></span> Frank Klein **Name:** Frank Klein **Role:** Chief Operations Officer **Shares Owned:** 1,417,644 **Joined:** 2024-09-10 **Linkedin:** https://www.linkedin.com/in/frank-klein-950b8a194/ ![[Pasted image 20241127001649.png|300]] >[!summary] As Chief Operations Officer, Frank Klein leads Rocket Lab’s efforts to scale manufacturing of its spacecraft, launch vehicles, and spacecraft components across multiple sites to meet growing customer demand. > Prior to joining the Rocket Lab team, Mr. Klein served Daimler AG (now Mercedes-Benz Group) for 27 years where he led various business divisions including Vehicle Research, Trucks, Cars, and Van manufacturing. While Vice President of Mercedes-Benz Vans Operations, Mr Klein managed global production across 12 production sites, heading up logistics, industrial engineering, and the division’s quality department, with responsibility for more than 14,000 employees globally. > Mr Klein also served as President of Magna Steyr AG, the automotive industry’s largest independent contract manufacturer with an annual turnover of more than US$6 billion, where he led operations across three continents and 13,000 employees globally. Most recently Mr Klein served as COO at Rivian Automative, where he helped to transform Rivian from a low volume automotive start-up to a high volume premium electric vehicle manufacture while responsible for 9,000+ employees. > Mr Klein holds a Masters’ Degree in Electrical and Industrial Engineering from Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Stuttgart and a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from FernUniversität in Hagen. [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 = [[Frank Klein]] sort Filing_Date desc ``` %% | File | Filing Type | Date | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------- | ------------------ | | [[Filings/2025/Form 4/03-18-25 Form 4 - Frank Klein.md\|03-18-25 Form 4 - Frank Klein]] | [[Filings/Filing Definitions.md#Form 4\|Form 4]] | March 18, 2025 | | [[Filings/2025/Form 144/03-14-25 Form 144 - Frank Klein.md\|03-14-25 Form 144 - Frank Klein]] | [[Filings/Filing Definitions.md#Form 144\|Form 144]] | March 14, 2025 | | [[Filings/2024/Form 4/11-27-24 Form 4 - Frank Klein.md\|11-27-24 Form 4 - Frank Klein]] | [[Filings/Filing Definitions.md#Form 4\|Form 4]] | November 27, 2024 | | [[Filings/2024/Form 144/11-25-24 Form 144 - Frank Klein.md\|11-25-24 Form 144 - Frank Klein]] | [[Filings/Filing Definitions.md#Form 144\|Form 144]] | November 25, 2024 | | [[Filings/2024/Form 3/9-20-24 Form 3 - Frank Klein.md\|9-20-24 Form 3 - Frank Klein]] | [[Filings/Filing Definitions.md#Form 3\|Form 3]] | September 20, 2024 | | [[Filings/2024/Form 4/9-20-24 Form 4 - Frank Klein.md\|9-20-24 Form 4 - Frank Klein]] | [[Filings/Filing Definitions.md#Form 4\|Form 4]] | September 20, 2024 | | [[Filings/2024/8-K/9-10-24 8-K - Frank Klein Hired.md\|9-10-24 8-K - Frank Klein Hired]] | [[Filings/Filing Definitions.md#8-K\|8-K]] | September 10, 2024 | %%DATAVIEW_PUBLISHER: end %% ## 📰 News %%DATAVIEW_PUBLISHER: start ``` table title as "Title", published as "Published" from "News" where contains(insider, [[Frank Klein]]) sort published desc ``` %% | File | Title | Published | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------ | | [[News/Rocket Lab Appoints Chief Operations Officer to Support Company Growth.md\|Rocket Lab Appoints Chief Operations Officer to Support Company Growth]] | Rocket Lab Appoints Chief Operations Officer to Support Company Growth | September 10, 2024 | %%DATAVIEW_PUBLISHER: end %% ## Former Organizations - Rivian - Magna International - Daimler AG