People: TASER International Inc (TASR.O)
TASR.O on Nasdaq
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Summary
| Name | Age | Since | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
Michael Garnreiter |
61 | 2012 | Chairman of the Board |
Douglas Klint |
62 | 2010 | President, General Counsel |
Patrick Smith |
42 | 1993 | Chief Executive Officer, Director |
Daniel Behrendt |
48 | 2004 | Chief Financial Officer |
Jeffrey Kukowski |
45 | 2011 | Executive Vice President - Sales, Chief Marketing Officer |
Jason Droege |
35 | 2012 | General Manager of EVIDENCE.COM |
Judy Martz |
69 | 2011 | Lead Independent Director |
Mark Kroll |
61 | 2003 | Director |
John Caldwell |
68 | 2011 | Independent Director |
Richard Carmona |
63 | 2007 | Independent Director |
Matthew McBrady |
42 | 2001 | Independent Director |
Hadi Partovi |
40 | 2010 | Independent Director |
Erin Curtis |
IR Contact |
Biographies
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
Michael Garnreiter |
Mr. Michael Garnreiter is Chairman of the Board of Taser International Inc. Mr. Garnreiter has served as a director of the Company since June 2006 and in February of 2012 assumed the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors. Mr. Garnreiter is also currently a managing director for Fenix Financial Forensics; a Phoenix Arizona based consulting organization, and has served in that capacity since January 2010. Mr. Garnreiter is also a board member and Audit and Governance committees Chair of Amtech systems, a supplier of horizontal diffusion furnace systems. He is also a board member and Audit committee Chairman for Knight Transportation, a North American truckload carrier. Mr. Garnreiter also serves as an Audit committee member for PAAMCO, a privately held company. From August 2006 through December 2009, Mr. Garnreiter also is managing member of Rising Sun Restaurant Group, L.L.C., 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 as a partner of the international accounting firm of Arthur Andersen from 1974 through March 2002. Mr. Garnreiter holds a B.S. degree in accounting from California State University at Long Beach and is a Certified Public Accountant. |
Douglas Klint |
Mr. Douglas E. Klint is President, General Counsel of Taser International Inc. Mr. Klint joined the Company in December 2002 as Vice President, General Counsel and held that position through February 2010 at which time he was promoted to President and General Counsel. Mr. Klint previously served as Vice President and General Counsel of Zycad Corporation, a publicly traded high technology company located in St. Paul, MN and Menlo Park, CA from 1984 to 1998, and Vice President and General Counsel of Aspec Technology, a publicly traded semi-conductor IP company located in Sunnyvale, CA, from 1998 to 1999 at which time he was promoted to President and CEO and continued in that role through 2001. Mr. Klint has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics and Business Administration from Gustavus Adolphus College, and a Juris Doctor Degree from William Mitchell College of Law, cum laude. He is admitted to the Minnesota State Bar and the Arizona State Bar. |
Patrick Smith |
Mr. Patrick W. Smith is Chief Executive Officer, Director of Taser International Inc. He is also co-founder of the Company. After graduating from Harvard cum laude in just three years (class of 1991), Mr. Smith entered directly into the Master of Business Administration Program at the University of Chicago, the youngest person accepted into his class that year. 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 (normally a two-year program in itself), graduating in the top 5% of his class. After completing graduate school in the summer of 1993, he co-founded TASER International in September 1993. |
Daniel Behrendt |
Mr. Daniel M. Behrendt is Chief Financial Officer of Taser International Inc. Mr. Behrendt joined the Company in May 2004 from Imperial Home Décor, after serving in a number of financial management positions for the Imperial Home Décor Group, including Director of Financial Planning and Analysis, Vice President and Corporate Controller and finally Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. From 1995 to 1998, he served as the Manager of Business Planning and Analysis for Teledyne Fluid Systems, a division of Allegheny Teledyne. From 1991 to 1995, he served as Manager, Business Planning and Analysis for PCC Airfoils, Inc. From 1988 to 1991, Mr. Behrendt was a Financial Analyst for the Power Generation Group of Babcock and Wilcox, and from 1986 to 1988, he worked as an auditor for Arthur Andersen & Co. in their Cleveland, Ohio office. Mr. Behrendt holds a B.S. degree in Accounting, cum laude, from Mount Union College, a Masters of Business Administration degree from The Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University and is a Certified Public Accountant. |
Jeffrey Kukowski |
Mr. Jeffrey M. Kukowski is Executive Vice President - Sales, Chief Marketing Officer of Taser International Inc. Mr. Kukowski joined the Company in June of 2010. Mr. Kukowski has previously served as Chief Operating Officer for Destinator Technologies (now Intrinsyc), Chief Solutions Officer for Cyclone Commerce (now Axway), and General Manager for RIMS (now Trizetto). As a co-founder of the Customer Retention Group, Mr. Kukowski has also worked for some of the technology companies in the world including Cognos (now IBM), Computer Associates, SPSS (now IBM) and others. Mr. Kukowski holds a B.A. degree in Economics from Northwestern University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago. |
Jason Droege |
Mr. Jason D. Droege is General Manager of EVIDENCE.COM of Taser International Inc. Mr. Droege joined the Company in November of 2008 with responsibility for software engineering, data communication, datacenter operations and product development and was promoted to his current position in February 2012. Previously Mr. Droege was President of Gizmo5 Technologies (acquired by Google), Co-founder & President of The Back 9 Golf Co. and Co-founder & VP, Business Development of Scour.com (acquired by Centerspan Communications). Mr. Droege attended the University of California, Los Angeles in computer science. |
Judy Martz |
Ms. Judy Martz is Lead Independent Director of Taser International Inc. She serves as Director since April 2005. From January 2001 through January 2004, Ms. Martz was Governor of the State of Montana and was Lieutenant Governor of the State of Montana from January 1996 through January 2000. From 1989 through 1995, Ms. Martz served as state representative for U.S. Senator Conrad Burns. |
Mark Kroll |
Dr. Mark W. Kroll, Ph.D., is Director of Taser International Inc. Dr. Kroll retired from St. Jude Medical Inc. in July 2005, where he held various executive level positions since 1995, most recently as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Cardiac Rhythm Management Division. Dr. Kroll holds a B.S. degree in Mathematics and a M.S. degree and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota and a M.B.A. degree from the University of St. Thomas. Dr. Kroll is also a director of Haemonetics Corporation and NewCardio, Inc. |
John Caldwell |
Lt. Gen. Rtd. (USAF) John S. Caldwell, Jr., is Independent Director of Taser International Inc. General Caldwell is currently employed as a consultant affiliated with The Spectrum Group, Wesley K. Clark Associates, and ASI Consulting Group. He previously was employed as Executive Vice President, Defense Solutions, Perot Systems Government Service until June 2008. General Caldwell was Senior Vice President, Defense Information Technology Solutions of QSS Group, Inc. from July 2004 through February 2008 at which time QSS Group Inc. was merged into Perot Systems Government Services. He is also employed as an executive advisor for PTC Corporation. From November 2001 through January 2004, General Caldwell was a Lieutenant General in the United States Army and Military Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology. General Caldwell holds a B.S. degree from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York and a M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. General Caldwell is also a director of Puradyn Filter Technologies and serves on several other corporate advisory boards. |
Richard Carmona |
Vice Admiral (Retd.) Dr. Richard H. Carmona, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.S., is Independent Director of Taser International Inc. Dr. Carmona was sworn in as the 17th Surgeon General of the United States on August 5, 2002 and held that position through July 30, 2006. Prior to being named United States Surgeon General, Dr. Carmona was the chairman of the State of Arizona Southern Regional Emergency Medical System, a professor of surgery, public health and community medicine at the University of Arizona, and the Pima County Sheriff’s Department surgeon and deputy sheriff. He is currently employed as Vice Chairman of Canyon Ranch and CEO of Canyon Ranch Health in Tucson, Arizona and has held that position since October 1, 2006. Dr. Carmona attended Bronx Community College, of the City University of New York, where he earned his associate of arts degree. Dr. Carmona holds a B.S. degree and medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco. He has also earned a Master’s Degree of public health from the University of Arizona. Dr. Carmona is also a director of The Clorox Company. |
Matthew McBrady |
Dr. Matthew R. McBrady, Ph.D., is Independent Director of Taser International Inc. From August 1998 through January 2000, Dr. McBrady served as an international economist with President Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers and the United States Treasury Department. Dr. McBrady subsequently served as a professor of finance at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania from (from September 2002 through May 2003) and at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia (from May 2003 through December 2006). Dr. McBrady then worked as an investment professional with the North American Private Equity group at Bain Capital, LLC (from January 2007 through January 2011) prior to joining Silver Creek Capital Management, LLC as Managing Director of Strategic Investments in January 2011. Dr. McBrady holds a B.A. degree in Economics from Harvard University, a M.S. degree in International Economics from Oxford University (UK), and a Masters and Ph.D. degree in Business Economics from Harvard University. |
Hadi Partovi |
Mr. Hadi Partovi is Independent Director of Taser International, Inc. He is currently an advisor to Facebook, Dropbox, Bluekai, LinkExchange, and XL2Web (Google Spreadsheets). From 2009 through 2010, Mr. Partovi was Senior Vice President Technology for My Space (via acquisition) and from 2006 through 2009 he was President and Co-Founder of ILIKE, Inc. which was acquired by My Space 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 VP of Product and Professional Services for TELLME Networks, Inc. From 1994 through 1999, he was Program Manager, Microsoft Internet Explorer. Mr. Partovi is also on the board of directors of iLike, Tellme Networks, and Edusoft and holds B.A. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science, summa cum laude, from Harvard University. |
Erin Curtis |
Basic Compensation
| Name | Fiscal Year Total |
|---|---|
Michael Garnreiter |
-- |
Douglas Klint |
623,168 |
Patrick Smith |
898,801 |
Daniel Behrendt |
661,768 |
Jeffrey Kukowski |
491,472 |
Jason Droege |
390,536 |
Judy Martz |
-- |
Mark Kroll |
-- |
John Caldwell |
-- |
Richard Carmona |
-- |
Matthew McBrady |
-- |
Hadi Partovi |
-- |
Erin Curtis |
-- |
As Of 30 Dec 2012
Options Compensation
| Name | Options | Value |
|---|---|---|
Michael Garnreiter |
0 | 0 |
Douglas Klint |
20,000 | 138,200 |
Patrick Smith |
966,168 | 3,542,041 |
Daniel Behrendt |
197,118 | 198,225 |
Jeffrey Kukowski |
0 | 0 |
Jason Droege |
0 | 0 |
Judy Martz |
0 | 0 |
Mark Kroll |
0 | 0 |
John Caldwell |
0 | 0 |
Richard Carmona |
0 | 0 |
Matthew McBrady |
0 | 0 |
Hadi Partovi |
0 | 0 |
Erin Curtis |
0 | 0 |
| Name | Shares Traded | Price |
|---|---|---|
SMITH PATRICK W |
50,000 | $8.93 |
KLINT DOUGLAS E |
18,923 | $8.99 |
MCBRADY MATTHEW R |
95,000 | $0.38 |
MCBRADY MATTHEW R |
95,000 | $7.77 |
DROEGE JASON DODD |
18,000 | $7.90 |
BEHRENDT DANIEL MARC |
7,106 | $6.85 |
PARTOVI HADI |
50,000 | $7.10 |
SMITH PATRICK W |
83,008 | $0.00 |
BEHRENDT DANIEL MARC |
43,945 | $0.00 |
KLINT DOUGLAS E |
43,945 | $0.00 |
KLINT DOUGLAS E |
7,107 | $6.85 |
KLINT DOUGLAS E |
22,400 | $0.00 |
KUKOWSKI JEFF |
2,452 | $9.22 |
SMITH PATRICK W |
28,000 | $0.00 |
KLINT DOUGLAS E |
2,452 | $9.22 |
DROEGE JASON DODD |
11,200 | $0.00 |
BEHRENDT DANIEL MARC |
2,452 | $9.22 |
KUKOWSKI JEFF |
11,200 | $0.00 |
BEHRENDT DANIEL MARC |
22,400 | $0.00 |
SMITH PATRICK W |
9,500 | $7.58 |
MCBRADY MATTHEW R |
43,334 | $5.47 |
MCBRADY MATTHEW R |
43,334 | $0.28 |
KROLL MARK W |
26,666 | $0.32 |
KROLL MARK W |
14,963 | $0.37 |
KROLL MARK W |
14,963 | $5.41 |
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