Adam C. Spice

Career

1. 2018 – now
   Rocket Lab (Rocket Lab USA, now Rocket Lab Corporation)src
   Chief Financial Officer; Secretary and Treasurer from May 2021
   Still CFO and principal financial officer per 10K-2025 signatures and 8K-2026-06-05
2. 2011 – 2018
   MaxLinear, Inc.src
   Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
3. 2009 – 2010
   Symwave Corporationsrc
   Chief Financial Officer
   Venture-backed fabless semiconductor company, sold to Standard Microsystems
4. 2000 – 2009
   Broadcom Corporationsrc
   Senior finance and operating roles: Corporate Treasurer; VP Finance & Corporate Development; VP & GM, Mobile Power Management (2006-2008)
5. 1996 – 2000
   Intelsrc
   Finance manager

Achievements

• CFO since May 2018, through the August 2021 merger with Vector Acquisition Corp that listed Rocket Lab and the May 2025 holding-company reorganisationsrc
• Seven years as MaxLinear's VP & CFO (2011-2018), after the CFO job at Symwave through its salesrc
• At Broadcom he was Corporate Treasurer and VP of Finance and Corporate Development, covering strategic planning, M&A and corporate FP&Asrc
• The company's 2018 appointment release credits him with leading more than 50 strategic acquisition and investment deals worth about $7bnsrc

Education

• Brigham Young University, BBA Business Administrationsrc
• The University of Texas at Austin, MBA Business Administrationsrc

Background

• Other In the 2021 SPAC merger the company redeemed options on 61,675 pre-split shares from him for $5m under the management redemption agreementsrc
• Other In April 2025 the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee approved his pledge of 1m shares to secure a home-purchase loan. At 2026-03-30, 622,452 shares were pledged to Morgan Stanley Private Bank on a loan with no scheduled maturitysrc
• Other On 2026-04-22 he put 250,000 shares into a grantor retained annuity trust, the SPICE 2026 RKLB GRAT, with himself as grantor and trusteesrc