Matthew McBrady, Ph.D., has served as a director of Axon Enterprise, Inc. since 2016, and previously served as a director of the company from January 2001 through June 2014. He is not standing for re-election to the Board upon expiration of his current term at the Annual Meeting. He was appointed Chief Financial Officer of GoBrands, Inc., the parent firm of the global quick commerce company Gopuff, in November 2025.
Previously, Dr. McBrady was a Professor of Practice in Finance at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia, teaching Corporate Financial Strategy, Corporate Financing, and Impact and ESG Investing since August 2020. Prior to returning to academia, he spent more than a decade as a private equity and hedge fund investor, serving as Senior Advisor and co-Chief Investment Officer of Callaway Capital (January 2017 - December 2019), Managing Director of Investments at the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (September 2017 - January 2019), Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer of the Multi-Strategy Hedge Funds at BlackRock, Inc. (January 2014 - September 2016), Managing Director and Head of Investment Strategy and Risk Management at Silver Creek Capital Management, LLC (January 2009 - January 2014), and a Senior Associate and Vice President in the North American Private Equity group at Bain Capital, LLC (January 2007 - January 2009).
Earlier, Dr. McBrady served as a senior economic policy advisor and finance professor, including as a Professor of Finance at the Darden School (May 2003 - December 2006) and at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania (September 2002 - May 2003), and as an international economist with President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers and the U.S. Treasury Department (August 1998 - January 2000). He currently serves as a Director and Chairman of the Investment Committee for Global Partnerships, a non-profit impact investor. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Harvard University, a M.Sc. in International Economics from Oxford University (where he was a Marshall Scholar), and a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University.