Founder & Chief Executive Officer · Fantom
Building the autonomous systems, the robots and the aircraft that come next — in‑house, frame to firmware.
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Biography
Graham Kramer is an American entrepreneur and the founder and chief executive officer of Fantom, an aerospace, defense and robotics company headquartered in Stowe, Vermont.
Kramer founded Fantom in 2026 around a single conviction: that the next great defense company would not be defined by any one platform, but by how completely it owns the design, the intelligence and the manufacturing. Fantom is vertically integrated by design — airframes, autonomy, flight computer, avionics and mission software all developed in house.
The centre of gravity is Fantom Defense: a family of uncrewed air, ground and maritime systems for American and allied forces — among them WRAITH, a tailless collaborative combat aircraft, and GRIM, a wheeled-leg ground robot. One autonomy stack, one supply chain, built to be produced at rate on American soil.
The same stack carries into robotics. UNIT 01 is a full-size humanoid built for the dull, dirty and dangerous work people should not have to do — logistics, materials handling and repetitive industrial tasks — on sale now against a refundable deposit.
And it began in the air. The Fantom X is a single-seat, zero-emission eVTOL engineered around the FAA Part 103 ultralight envelope — the regulatory category that permits flight without a pilot’s licence. Designing to an existing framework rather than pursuing new certification is the deliberate shortcut: it compresses the path from concept to a flyable, ownable aircraft from decades to months.
Before Fantom, Kramer spent his career turning ambitious companies into category leaders across consumer, entertainment and technology. Fantom is the first he has built from the frame up.
The company
One company, three programmes, one vertically integrated stack — defense first. An American aerospace, defense and robotics company operating from roughly 25,000 square feet of commercial aviation infrastructure at Morrisville–Stowe State Airport in Vermont.
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Uncrewed air, ground & maritime
The company’s centre of gravity. A family of autonomous systems for American and allied forces — among them WRAITH, a tailless collaborative combat aircraft, and GRIM, a wheeled-leg ground robot — built on one autonomy stack, under one roof.
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UNIT 01 — humanoid
A full-size humanoid robot for the dull, dirty and dangerous work people should not have to do — logistics, materials handling and repetitive industrial tasks. On sale now against a refundable deposit.
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Fantom X — personal eVTOL
A single-seat, zero-emission electric vertical-takeoff aircraft engineered to the FAA Part 103 ultralight envelope — the category that requires no pilot’s licence to fly. Built in house from frame to firmware.
The next great defense company won’t be defined by any one platform, but by how completely it owns the design, the intelligence and the manufacturing.
Portfolio
Kramer was Chief of Branding at Allergan, and a strategic member of the executive team — led by chief executive Brent Saunders — behind the company’s approximately $60 billion sale to AbbVie, a transaction carrying roughly $20 billion in consumed debt.
It remains the clearest through-line in his work: taking a company with real substance and giving it a position the market can actually understand. Fantom applies the same instinct to hardware — only this time the product, the intelligence and the story are all built in the same building.
Press & profiles
Media enquiries, imagery and company boilerplate are handled through the Fantom press office. The approved biography, fast facts and headshot are in the press kit for Graham Kramer.
