Frank Klein
Frank Klein is the Chief Operations Officer at Rocket Lab, a role he assumed in September 2024. He brings over 30 years of international manufacturing experience from the automotive industry, including 27 years at Daimler AG in various leadership roles, President of Magna Steyr AG, and COO at Rivian Automotive. He is best known for scaling production operations at high-growth companies, applying lean manufacturing and automotive industry practices to aerospace manufacturing.
“Rocket Lab hired COO Frank Klein out of Mercedes, and the production line layout, the ERP and MRP systems, and the vending machines are all the same instinct.”
“We hired our CEO, Frank Klein, who came from Mercedes and bought a whole bunch of that expertise as well.”
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