---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-25-016541"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ACHR"
cik: "0001824502"
company_name: "Archer Aviation Inc."
filed_at: "2025-04-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T22:45:30.559719+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Archer Aviation appoints Harsh Rungta as SVP Finance and Chief Accounting Officer

## Summary
- Harsh Rungta appointed SVP Finance and Chief Accounting Officer, effective March 31, 2025.
- Base salary of $375k; one-time cash sign-on bonus of $200k; cash relocation bonus of $50k.
- Eligible for target bonus up to $200k under employee bonus plan; sign-on RSUs worth $2M.
- Rungta previously served as Director, Accounting Controllership at Tesla and 12+ years at PwC.
- No family relationships or material interests with any director or executive officer of Archer.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-25-016541
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ACHR
- cik: 0001824502
- company_name: Archer Aviation Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-04-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1824502/000162828025016541/0001628280-25-016541-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1824502/000162828025016541/achr-20250331.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Harsh Rungta was appointed as Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Accounting Officer at Archer Aviation Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: On March 31, 2025, Archer Aviation Inc. (the “Company”) announced the appointment of Harsh Rungta as its Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Accounting Officer, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1824502/000162828025016541/0001628280-25-016541-index.htm

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