Todd Pedersen

In 2016 Pedersen was involved in a fatal accident during the SCORE Baja 500 off-road race.

Pederson was featured in the sixth season finale of the CBS reality show, Undercover Boss in 2015. The experience afforded him valuable insights into his employees' work days.

In 2015 Pedersen was inducted into the David Eccles School of Business Hall of Fame.

Pedersen was named Entrepreneur of the Year by three separate entities, first in 2010 by Ernst & Young, next by the Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum in 2012, and in 2013 by MountainWest Capital Network.

A few years later, he switched to a different product, burglar alarms, though using the same marketing technique. Soon he contacted high school friend Keith Nellesen to assist in this venture. Together, they founded APX Alarm Security Solutions in 1999 in Provo, Utah, utilizing his door-to-door marketing strategy. In 2011 APX Alarm was rebranded as Vivint to reflect its emphasis on living intelligently through home automation. The company became a major competitor in the industry, as well as expanding its marketing through more traditional venues such as television advertising and telephone sales representatives.

After finishing a 2-year mission for his church, he returned and settled in Provo, Utah. In 1992 he began selling pest-control services door-to-door from a small business with 10 employees based in a trailer in Arizona.

Todd Richard Pedersen (born November 23, 1968) is an American entrepreneur and the founder of Vivint, Inc., a home automation, security and energy company. Vivint, Inc. was acquired in late 2012 by the Blackstone Group.