Patrick Smith

Patrick Rick Smith is the co-founder and CEO of Axon Enterprise, a public safety technology company headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona. He co-founded the company in 1993 as TASER International, originally developing TASER energy weapons before expanding into body-worn cameras and digital evidence management platforms. He holds a bachelor's degree from Harvard University and MBA degrees from the University of Chicago and the University of Leuven in Belgium. He is the author of the 2019 book The End of Killing, which argues that killing is a technology problem that can be solved.