ProAuction.net ™ Management Team

ProAuction.net was founded and is operated by several unique individuals all sharing a commitment to providing a quality service to the online sales community. Their various skills and experience complement each other and make a very well rounded team. It is also interesting to note that the ProAuction.net management team spans five decades' difference in age.

Donald C. Rehkopf
President, CEO

Rodney A. Klein, J.D.
Treasurer, CFO

Don Rehkopf developed the original concept of ProAuction.net and brought the principals of the company together. His goal was to create a way to bring the integrity and honesty of professional auctioneers into the online auction world. Also, being an "ol' country boy," originally from Athens, Texas, he especially wanted to develop a more user-friendly way of selling items via an online auction.

Born in 1949 and raised in Dumas, Texas, Don entered the Air Force after high school. He graduated from the University of North Dakota in 1979 and has six children. After retirement from the Air Force, he entered the Department of Defense's Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) in 1994. Rising through the ranks, he gained extensive experience in conducting sales and auctions of surplus and excess items, and he has become Chief of a DRMS Office.

Don is a graduate of the Missouri Auction School and is a professional auctioneer.

Don's keen vision and irrepressible enthusiasm help keep everyone at ProAuction.net on-task and highly motivated.

A management team would not be complete without the voice of experience and maturity. Rod Klein draws on his background as businessman, developer, attorney and auctioneer to steady the path of ProAuction.net.

Rod was born in North Dakota in 1933. After graduation from Mandan High School, he attended the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota and graduated in 1955. He worked as a teacher, Federal government employee, ALCOA salesman, and served in the Air Force and Air Force Reserve before attending Law School. He graduated from the University of California, Hastings Law School in 1964.

For 35 years the Klein Law Firm has specialized in product liability and mass tort litigation. Rod is recognized as a national leader in these fields.

Along the way Rod saw the value and logic of the auction method of selling. He therefore attended and graduated from the Missouri Auction School.

As a lawyer and a professional auctioneer, Rod can pledge himself to the standards of integrity and fiduciary duty demanded by both professions.

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