Tyler Painter joins Wisk’s leadership team as company’s new Chief Financial Officer

Wisk has announced Tyler Painter as the com­pa­ny’s new Chief Finan­cial Offi­cer (CFO), bring­ing a strong his­to­ry of devel­op­ing, launch­ing, and com­mer­cial­is­ing new tech­nolo­gies. 

Painter will lead Wisk’s finance, account­ing, cor­po­rate devel­op­ment, and infor­ma­tion tech­nol­o­gy teams and will be respon­si­ble for over­see­ing the company’s finan­cial plan­ning and objec­tives. 

Wisk CEO Gary Gysin said: “I am excit­ed to wel­come Tyler as Wisk’s new Chief Finan­cial Offi­cer, with his first­hand under­stand­ing of our indus­try and a strong his­to­ry of com­mer­cial­is­ing new tech­nolo­gies and busi­ness mod­els. 

“His expe­ri­ence and exper­tise in both small and large pub­lic com­pa­nies, rais­ing cap­i­tal, and part­ner­ships, will fur­ther solid­i­fy Wisk’s indus­try lead­er­ship as we con­tin­ue our growth tra­jec­to­ry and push toward com­mer­cial­i­sa­tion.”

Painter brings decades of finan­cial and oper­a­tional man­age­ment expe­ri­ence to Wisk, with a wide array of expe­ri­ence across pri­vate, pub­lic, and For­tune 500 com­pa­nies. 

Most recent­ly he served as Chief Finan­cial Offi­cer for Surf Air Mobil­i­ty, a com­pa­ny focused on accel­er­at­ing the adop­tion of elec­tric region­al air trav­el, pri­or to which he was CFO of Fair Finan­cial Corp and spent ten years as the CFO and chief oper­at­ing offi­cer (COO) of Solazyme, a biotech­nol­o­gy com­pa­ny that devel­oped and com­mer­cialised sus­tain­able renew­able oils and ingre­di­ents, which he helped to grow from ear­ly stages through its IPO and beyond. 

Ear­li­er in his career, Tyler was Cor­po­rate Trea­sur­er and VP of Finance for Wind Riv­er Sys­tems, a glob­al leader in deliv­er­ing soft­ware for intel­li­gent sys­tems with major cus­tomers across the Aero­space and Defense indus­try.

Painter said: “The world of mobil­i­ty is chang­ing rapid­ly as con­sumers increas­ing­ly demand more flex­i­ble and sus­tain­able solu­tions, and with a cul­ture built on Sil­i­con Val­ley inno­va­tion and the dis­ci­pline and exper­tise of a world-lead­ing aero­space com­pa­ny, Wisk is well-posi­tioned to lead the advanced air mobil­i­ty (AAM) mar­ket. 

“I’m thrilled to join the tal­ent­ed team at Wisk as we push to trans­form how peo­ple get from one place to anoth­er.”

Painter joins Wisk fol­low­ing its recent $450M invest­ment com­mit­ment from The Boe­ing Com­pa­ny in Jan­u­ary. 

In June 2020, Wisk announced that Dr Pete Kunz, Chief Tech­nol­o­gist for Boe­ing NeXt and Boeing’s Senior Chief Engi­neer for Unpilot­ed Sys­tems, was appoint­ed to its board. 

Recog­nised as a leader in the Urban Air Mobil­i­ty mar­ket, Kunz is one of the vision­ar­ies behind Boe­ing NeXt’s Urban Air Mobil­i­ty strat­e­gy and his back­ground in autonomous air­craft will bring addi­tion­al tech­ni­cal and indus­try exper­tise to Wisk’s board.