Archer hires Dr Michael Romanowski as Head of Government Relations

Archer Avi­a­tion has appoint­ed Dr Michael Romanows­ki as Head of Gov­ern­ment Rela­tions to col­lab­o­rate with reg­u­la­to­ry author­i­ties and indus­try to form a for­ward-lean­ing posi­tion on pol­i­cy, process and glob­al cer­ti­fi­ca­tion expec­ta­tions.

Romanows­ki said: “The safe advance­ment and imple­men­ta­tion of emerg­ing aero­space tech­nolo­gies is one of the best ways to con­tin­ue to improve safe­ty and bring last­ing ben­e­fits to the Amer­i­can pub­lic.

“Archer’s ded­i­ca­tion to safe­ty and focus on col­lab­o­ra­tion with indus­try and fed­er­al agen­cies alike is a clear sig­nal of their com­mit­ment to mak­ing eVTOL trav­el a real­i­ty.”

Romanows­ki joins Archer after more than 14 years at the Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion (FAA), where he served most recent­ly as Air­craft Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion Direc­tor of Pol­i­cy and Inno­va­tion, and as the Direc­tor of NextGen Inte­gra­tion & Imple­men­ta­tion and Com­mer­cial Space Inte­gra­tion.

In addi­tion, Romanows­ki served as the Avi­a­tion and Aero­nau­tics Advi­sor to the Chief Tech­nol­o­gy Offi­cer of the Unit­ed States and as the Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of the Nation­al Sci­ence and Tech­nol­o­gy Coun­cil Aero­nau­tics Sci­ence and Tech­nol­o­gy Sub­com­mit­tee under the Oba­ma admin­is­tra­tion.

Pri­or to the FAA, Romanows­ki served as Vice Pres­i­dent of Civ­il Avi­a­tion at the Aero­space Indus­tries Asso­ci­a­tion, hav­ing earned his PhD in Mechan­i­cal Engi­neer­ing at Duke Uni­ver­si­ty.

Fol­low­ing the recent com­ple­tion of the Pre­lim­i­nary Design Review (PDR) of its Mid­night pro­duc­tion air­craft, Archer is con­tin­u­ing its path towards com­mer­cial­i­sa­tion by focussing on the reg­u­la­to­ry frame­work nec­es­sary to bring eVTOL air­craft to mar­ket.

Romanowski’s appoint­ment is key to con­tin­ued col­lab­o­ra­tion with indus­try and reg­u­la­to­ry organ­i­sa­tions devel­op­ing con­sen­sus posi­tions on the technology’s imple­men­ta­tion.

Archer founder and CEO Adam Gold­stein com­ment­ed: “I’m thrilled to wel­come Michael to our team, and to help strength­en our path to com­mer­cial­iza­tion.

“We are ded­i­cat­ed to the real­i­sa­tion of Urban Air Mobil­i­ty that is safe and sus­tain­able, and Michael’s appoint­ment is key to col­lab­o­rat­ing on the reg­u­la­to­ry frame­work that will help make it pos­si­ble.”

In June, Archer Avi­a­tion appoint­ed Tom Ander­son as urban air mobil­i­ty (UAM) chief oper­at­ing offi­cer to over­see its planned UAM oper­a­tions, pri­mar­i­ly focussed on estab­lish­ing its com­mer­cial oper­at­ing ser­vice.

In Feb­ru­ary, Archer appoint­ed Bar­bara Pilars­ki to its Board of Direc­tors, to serve as an inde­pen­dent direc­tor and on Archer’s Nom­i­nat­ing and Cor­po­rate Gov­er­nance Com­mit­tee.