Wisk welcomes Chief Technologist for Boeing NeXt to its board

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

Recog­nised as a leader in the Urban Air Mobil­i­ty mar­ket, Dr. 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.

“We are pleased to wel­come Pete to our board,” said Gary Gysin, CEO of Wisk. “His back­ground in aero­space engi­neer­ing and his expe­ri­ence in var­i­ous aspects of the analy­sis, design and test­ing of autonomous air­craft is incred­i­bly valu­able as we con­tin­ue the devel­op­ment and cer­ti­fi­ca­tion process for our self-fly­ing air taxi.”

Pri­or to Boe­ing, Dr. Kunz held sev­er­al lead­er­ship roles, includ­ing Chief Tech­nol­o­gy Offi­cer at Insi­tu, Inc., an unmanned aer­i­al sys­tems and ser­vices (UAS) com­pa­ny where he led both com­mer­cial and defense tech­ni­cal devel­op­ment. 

Dr. Kunz has a doc­tor­ate in aero­nau­tics and astro­nau­tics from Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty, as well as master’s and bachelor’s degrees in aero­space engi­neer­ing from Penn State.

“What I see hap­pen­ing at Wisk is extreme­ly excit­ing and I love the cul­ture that con­tin­ues to be built there,” said Kunz. “I’m look­ing for­ward to help­ing the com­pa­ny work through the next phase of their air­craft devel­op­ment and bring­ing safe, autonomous flight to mar­ket.”

The news fol­lows an announce­ment made ear­li­er this month by Wisk, as it is set to resume flight test­ing of its autonomous, all-elec­tric air taxi, named Cora, in the US and New Zealand. This fol­lows a brief pause due to Covid-19 restric­tions.