Rick Smith is the CEO and founder of Axon Enterprise a global pioneer in public safety technology. Rick founded the company in 1993 from a Tucson garage, driven by a deeply personal mission to protect life after two of his childhood friends were tragically killed in a gun violence incident. Under his leadership over the last three decades, Axon has evolved from a hardware startup into an advanced software, cloud, and AI platform titan—pioneering TASER energy weapons, revolutionizing transparency through police body cameras, and building Evidence.com, the world’s leading digital evidence management system. A Harvard graduate with an MBA from the University of Chicago, Rick is a visionary leader dedicated to a bold corporate  making the bullet obsolete.