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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950142-24-000254"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RKT"
cik: "0001805284"
company_name: "Rocket Companies, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-02-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-06T11:20:16.831462+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Rocket Companies appoints AI and fintech expert Alex Rampell to Board

## Summary
- Appointed as independent Class II director effective February 1, 2024; term expires at 2025 annual meeting.
- Rampell is General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz and co-founder of Affirm.
- Will receive annual cash retainer of $75,000 and RSUs with initial grant value of $215,000, vesting after one year.
- Alongside CEO Varun Krishna who joined Board in December 2023, this adds deep fintech and AI expertise.
- Company notes it uses AI to generate approximately 3.7 billion customer interactions and decisions annually.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950142-24-000254
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RKT
- cik: 0001805284
- company_name: Rocket Companies, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-02-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1805284/000095014224000254/0000950142-24-000254-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1805284/000095014224000254/eh230443815_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950142-24-000254
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950142-24-000254.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950142-24-000254.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Alastair Rampell was appointed as Class II Director at Rocket Companies, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Class II Director
  source text: voted to expand the Board from eight directors to nine directors and to fill the newly created vacancy on the Board by appointing Alastair Rampell to serve as a Class II director, effective February 1, 2024
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1805284/000095014224000254/0000950142-24-000254-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.