Sir Peter Beck

Career

1. 2021 – now
   Rocket Lab (Rocket Lab USA, now Rocket Lab Corporation)src
   Chairman, President & CEO
   Chairman of the Legacy Rocket Lab board from May 2021 and of the listed company from the August 2021 Vector Acquisition merger; the holding company Rocket Lab Corporation became the registrant on 2025-05-23
2. 2013 – 2021
   Rocket Lab USAsrc
   President & CEO and director; also Treasurer (to May 2021) and Secretary & CFO (to September 2015)
3. 2006 – 2013
   Rocket Labsrc
   Founder
   Led the 2009 Atea-1 launch; his title in these years is not stated in the filings read
4. 2003 – 2006
   New Zealand government research institute (Industrial Research Ltd, per search)src
   Engineer, advanced composite structures and materials
   The proxy does not name the institute; Industrial Research Ltd comes from WS-wiki
5. 1993 – 2003
   Fisher & Paykelsrc
   Apprentice precision engineer, then production machinery design, product design and analysis
   The proxy says his career began in 1993; WS-wiki dates the apprenticeship from 1995

Not located: Titles held 2006-2013, before he became President & CEO in July 2013, are not stated in any filing read

Achievements

• Founded Rocket Lab in 2006; its Atea-1 in 2009 was, the company believes, the first commercially developed rocket to reach space from the Southern Hemispheresrc
• Led the development of the Electron launcher and of the private orbital launch site LC-1 at Mahia, New Zealand, which needed an international treaty and legislationsrc
• FY2025 revenue $601.8m, up about 38%; backlog grew from $1,067.0m to $1,847.3m over 2025src
• Made a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2024 King's Birthday Honours, for services to the aerospace industry, business and educationsrc
• Holds the Royal Aeronautical Society Gold Medal and the Royal Society of New Zealand's Cooper and Pickering Medals; adjunct professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Aucklandsrc

Education

• James Hargest College, Invercargill, Secondary schoolsrc

Background

• Family Married to Kerryn Beck, whom he met at Fisher & Paykel. She co-settled the Equatorial Trust that holds his Series A Preferred and is a director of its trustee company with shared voting and investment powersrc
• Founder Holds his control stake through the Equatorial Trust. In December 2024 the trust swapped 50,951,250 common shares for Series A Preferred, which carries a right to elect at least one director (him) and converts to common if he stops being CEO, dies, or falls below 5% ownershipsrc
• Founder In the 2021 SPAC merger the company redeemed 329,925 of his pre-split Rocket Lab shares for $30m under a management redemption agreementsrc
• Personal The 10-K names him as the source of many, if not most, of the company's ideas. It also says he takes part in high-risk activities (recreational aviation, motorsports, operating heavy machinery), and the company carries no key-person life insurance on himsrc
• Other Took part in Compensation Committee deliberations on the pay of the other executive officers for 2025 and earlier yearssrc