Simon Stevens - Simon Studied Mechanical Engineering at University of Sussex , England . Simon has engineered hundreds of paintball products , most of which are still being used today . He worked as the Director of Research and Development at KEE Action Sports and now owns Inception Designs where he continues to innovate .
Caleb Strong - Although he opened an outdoor field almost two years earlier in 1982 , Caleb Strong opened the first indoor paintball field in the world in 1984 in Buffalo , New York . Strong was also a member of the PMI Piranhas , a highly decorated tournament team of the 80s as well as a PMI distributor .
Tyler Tiberius - While he was running his new company Tiberius Arms , Tyler Tiberius was still attending school at Brigham Young University , where in 2006 he won their Student Entrepreneur of the Year competition . In his senior year of business management Tyler entered a magazine fed paintball gun into the competition and that gun and Tyler are credited as being the first-ever mag-fed paintball gun . Tiberius Arms has since launched dozens of successful and creative products , such as their T8 Pistols , T9 Rifles , First Strike Paintballs and many more . Tiberius Arms also acquired Guerrilla Air in 2012 .
Dennis Tippmann Sr . - When the late great Dennis Tippmann came into the paintball industry , he came in with a bang . His first gun , the full-auto SMG-60 , was ground-breaking . If that wasn ’ t enough , Tippmann virtually invented the paint grenade . Tippmann also pioneered constant air for the masses and developed semi-automatic paintball guns into reliable , consistent machines that players could rely on game after game . Tippmann soldiers on today as the name everyone equates to reliability and simplicity .
Left to Right : Top Kaleb Strong , Simon Stevens Bottom , Dennis Tippmann , Tyler Tiberius
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