Rick Smith vs Gregory Q. Brown

Rick Smith

CEO of Axon

BIO: A pioneer of technology with the vision of making the bullet obsolete, Rick founded the original company, TASER, in 1993. As the TASER device became ubiquitous in law enforcement, Rick pushed the company beyond weapons technology and towards a broader purpose of matching technology to public safety needs in order to make the world a safer place. Under his leadership, the company has grown from a garage in Tucson to a NASDAQ-listed global market leader in conducted electrical weapons, body worn cameras and software. Rick was winner of the Ernst and Young 2002 Entrepreneur of the Year. Rick graduated from Harvard with a B.S. in Neuroscience (Cum Laude) and later earned a Master in International Finance from the University of Leuven in Belgium and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Gregory Q. Brown

CEO of Motorola Solutions

BIO: Greg Brown is chairman and chief executive officer of Motorola Solutions. Brown is in his 17th year as CEO of Motorola and Motorola Solutions. Under Brown's tenure at Motorola Solutions, he has made over 40 acquisitions and achieved total shareholder return of over 1,000%. Today this almost 100-year-old global company is a leader in public safety and enterprise security. Under Brown’s leadership, Motorola Solutions has been named number one in its category on Fortune’s Most Admired list, named as one of America’s Best Employers for Diversity and one of the World’s Top Companies for Women by Forbes, as one of the World’s Best Companies by Time Magazine, named to Newsweek’s Most Trustworthy Companies, named to Investor’s Business Daily’s 100 Best ESG Companies, and is considered one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. Brown was Chairman & CEO of Micromuse. He also served as the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chairman of the Rutgers University Board of Governors and Midwest Chairman of the Navy Seals Foundation. He currently serves as Co-Chair of Prium and is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Brown was named as one of the top CEOs in America by Barrons in 2023. He has also received the Eisenhower Award from Business Executives for National Security. Brown has served two American presidents as part of President Obama's Management Advisory Board and President George W. Bush's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee. Brown earned a bachelor's degree in economics and an honorary doctorate in humane letters from Rutgers University.