Board of Directors

Michael Garnreiter

• Chairman of the Board

Chairman of the Board

Mr. Garnreiter most recently served as Vice President of Finance and Treasurer of Shamrock Foods, a privately held manufacturer and distributor of foods and food-related products. He retired from this position in December 2015. From January 2010 until August 2012, Mr. Garnreiter was a managing director of Fenix Financial Forensics, a Phoenix-based litigation and financial consulting firm. From August 2006 through December 2009, Mr. Garnreiter served as managing member of Rising Sun Restaurant Group, LLC, a private restaurant operating company. From April 2002 through June 2006, Mr. Garnreiter was Executive Vice President, Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer of the Main Street Restaurant Group. Mr. Garnreiter previously served with the international accounting firm, Arthur Andersen, from 1974 through March 2002 with increasing levels of responsibility, culminating as a partner. Additionally, Mr. Garnreiter has served on the board of Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc. since 2003 and has also served on the board of Amtech Systems, Inc. since 2007. Mr. Garnreiter holds a B.S. in Accounting from California State University at Long Beach and is a Certified Public Accountant.

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  Nominating and Governance Committee
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Erika Ayers Badan

Director

Ms. Ayers Badan was appointed Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) of Food52 in April 2024. Ms. Ayers Badan was previously CEO of Barstool Sports from 2016 through January 2024, during which time it experienced tremendous brand and business growth as one of the fastest-growing digital innovation, sports, entertainment and lifestyle media brands on the Internet. Prior to joining Barstool Sports, Ms. Ayers Badan held various executive roles at media platforms such as Microsoft Corporation, AOL, Leaf Group (formerly Demand Media, Inc.) and Yahoo! Inc. She has extensive experience in transforming start-up organizations into multi-industry operations. She was also part of two early stage start-ups in the fashion and music industry and sits on the advisory board of the Premier Lacrosse League. Ms. Ayers Badan previously served on the board of directors of World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. from October 2020 to September 2022. Ms. Ayers Badan holds a B.S. in Sociology and Psychology from Colby College.

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  Compensation Committee

Adriane Brown

Director

Ms. Brown has been a Managing Partner at Flying Fish Partners, a technology focused venture capital firm, since 2021 and joined as a Venture Partner in 2018. Prior to that, Ms. Brown served as President and Chief Operating Officer for Intellectual Ventures (“IV”), an invention and investment company that commercializes inventions, from January 2010 through July 2017, and served as a Senior Advisor until December 2018. Before joining IV, Ms. Brown served as President and CEO of Honeywell Transportation Systems (“Honeywell”) from January 2005 to June 2009. Over the course of 10 years at Honeywell, she held leadership positions serving the aerospace and automotive markets globally. Prior to Honeywell, Ms. Brown spent 19 years at Corning, Inc., ultimately serving as Vice President and General Manager, Environmental Products Division, having started her career there as a shift supervisor. Ms. Brown serves on the boards of directors of American Airlines Group Inc., eBay Inc. and KKR & Co Inc. Ms. Brown also serves on the board of directors of the International Women’s Forum. Previously, she served on the boards of directors of Allergan plc and Raytheon Company until 2020, respectively, and Harman International Industries until 2017. Ms. Brown holds an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters and a B.A. in environmental health from Old Dominion University and is a winner of its Distinguished Alumni Award. She also holds a M.A. in Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she was a Sloan Fellow.

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  Enterprise Risk and Compliance Committee

Caitlin Kalinowski

Director

Ms. Kalinowski is a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI where she focuses on AI and robotics. Previously, she was the head of the AR Glasses Hardware team at Meta’s Reality Labs division and, before that, led the VR Hardware team, where she played a key role in the design and engineering of Oculus’ award-winning VR devices. Before working at Meta, Ms. Kalinowski was a Product Design Engineer at Apple where she was a technical lead on the Mac Pro and MacBook Air products and was part of the original unibody MacBook Pro team. Ms. Kalinowski is also on the strategic board of Lesbians Who Tech & Allies, the largest LGBTQ technical organization in the world. She also advises startups working with physical products, drawing on over 20 years of experience in high-tech hardware development. Ms. Kalinowski holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.

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Todd Morgenfeld

Director

Mr. Morgenfeld has served as a member of the boards of directors of AppLovin Corporation, a marketing platform for mobile app developers, since 2023, and Urban Outfitters, Inc., a lifestyle retail company, since 2019. He previously served as Chief Financial Officer and then as Chief Financial Officer and Head of Business Operations (CFO/COO) at Pinterest, Inc., a visual discovery engine and social media platform, from 2016 to 2023. Prior to Pinterest, he was Vice President of Finance at Twitter, Inc. (2015–2016) and Treasurer and Senior Vice President of Financial Analytics and Corporate Development at Hewlett-Packard Company, a global technology products and services provider (2013–2015). Earlier, he was an investment partner at Silver Lake Partners, a global private equity firm focused on technology (2004–2013), an Associate at Goldman Sachs & Co. (2001–2004), and served as a Captain in the U.S. Army’s Armor branch (1994–1999). Mr. Morgenfeld holds a B.S. from the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he graduated first in his class, and earned an M.B.A. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

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Hadi Partovi

Director

Mr. Partovi is the CEO and co-founder of the non-profit education organization Code.org and has served as a director on the board of MNTN, Inc., a private company, since 2023. Mr. Partovi is a past or present strategic advisor or early investor at numerous technology companies, including Facebook, Dropbox, Uber, Airbnb, SpaceX and Zappos. From 2009 through 2010, Mr. Partovi was Senior Vice President of Technology for MySpace (via acquisition) and, from 2006 through 2009, he was President and co-founder of iLike, Inc., which was acquired by MySpace in 2009. From 2002 through 2005, Mr. Partovi was General Manager, Microsoft MSN Entertainment and MSN.com and, from 1999 through 2001, he was Co-Founder and Vice President of Product and Professional Services for Tellme Networks, Inc. From 1994 through 1999, he was Program Manager for Microsoft Internet Explorer. Mr. Partovi holds a B.A. and a M.S. in Computer Science, summa cum laude, from Harvard University.

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Graham Smith

Director

Mr. Smith has served on the board of directors of Procore Technologies, Inc., a provider of cloud-based construction management software, since 2020 and on the board of directors of GoDaddy, Inc., a provider of digital domains and business management software for small business, since 2024. Mr. Smith previously served as chair of the board of directors of Splunk Inc. from March 2019 through March 2024, and as a member of its board of directors from 2011 through 2024. He also served as the interim CEO of Splunk Inc. from November 2021 to April 2022.  Mr. Smith served in various leadership positions at salesforce.com, inc. (“Salesforce”), a provider of enterprise cloud computing software, from 2007 to 2015, including as Chief Financial Officer and most recently as Executive Vice President. Prior to joining Salesforce, Mr. Smith served as Chief Financial Officer at Advent Software Inc., a portfolio accounting software company, from 2003 to 2007. Mr. Smith previously served on the board of directors of BlackLine, Inc., a provider of cloud-based solutions for finance and accounting, from 2015 to 2022; Citrix Systems, Inc., an enterprise software company, from 2015 to 2018; MINDBODY, Inc., a cloud-based wellness services marketplace (acquired by Vista Equity Partners), from 2015 to 2019; Xero Limited, an online accounting software company, from 2015 to 2020; Slack Technologies, Inc., a provider of cloud-based professional collaboration tools (acquired by salesforce.com), from 2018 to 2021; and Elliott Opportunity II Corp., a special purchase acquisition company, from June to December 2021. Mr. Smith holds a B.Sc. from Bristol University in England and qualified as a chartered accountant in England and Wales

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Rick Smith

Director, CEO & Founder

Mr. Smith has served as CEO and as a director of the Company since 1993. He is also co-founder of the Company. After graduating from Harvard University, cum laude, in just three years (class of 1991), Mr. Smith entered directly into the M.B.A. program at the University of Chicago. In two years, he completed both a master’s degree in international finance from the University of Leuven in Leuven, Belgium and an M.B.A. with honors at the University of Chicago, graduating in the top 5% of his class. After completing graduate school in the summer of 1993, he co-founded Axon Enterprise, Inc. (F.K.A. TASER International, Inc.) in September 1993 with his brother, Thomas P. Smith. Among other qualifications, Mr. Smith is the visionary of the Company and brings to the Board extensive executive leadership experience in the technology industry, including the management of worldwide operations, sales, service and support as well as technology innovation as he currently holds 53 U.S. patents.

Chief Jeri Williams

Director

Ms. Williams served as Chief of Police for the Phoenix Police Department, the first female to lead the city’s force, from 2016 to 2022. During her tenure with the department, she advanced a number of progressive strategies, including key areas such as community engagement and professional standards. Previously, she served nearly six years as Chief of Police in the City of Oxnard, California. Ms. Williams has received extensive accolades for her dedication to law enforcement, including being named one of Arizona’s Most Intriguing Women by the Arizona Centennial Legacy Project and recognized as California’s Assembly District 44 Woman of the Year for her leadership and outstanding accomplishments. In 2016, President Obama appointed Ms. Williams to a membership position on the Medal of Valor Review Board. She has also served as the first female President of the Major Cities Chiefs Association. Since 2023, Ms. Williams has acted as Principal for Impresa Strategy, a business consulting and advisory services firm. Ms. Williams holds a B.A. in Fine Arts from Arizona State University and a M.A. in Education from Northern Arizona University.

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