Dr. Geoff Bower is Archer’s Chief Engineer. With over a decade of experience in the eVTOL aircraft industry, he has helped design and build 5 previous generations of full-scale eVTOL aircraft. Before joining Archer, Geoff was Chief Engineer for Project Vahana at ACubed, an Airbus innovation center in Silicon Valley, where he led the engineering team that designed, built, and completed a successful flight test campaign of the Vahana demonstrator. Before Vahana, he worked on flight control system development and aerodynamic modeling at Zee.Aero. Dr. Bower holds an MS and a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Stanford University, and a BS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.