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Aldo Perrone
Mike “Pev” Peverill
Gino Postorivo
Johnny Postorivo
Chris Raehl
August 2014
Aldo Perrone
In 1985 Aldo Perrone founded Brass Eagle, a force in
paintball manufacturing and
distribution in the 1980s and
1990s. Perrone later sold the
company to Daisy. Perrone is
responsible for introducing a
plethora of paintball products
to players worldwide including the Nightmare, Poison,
Cobra, King Cobra, Barracuda and Ninja paintguns, in
the late 80s and early 90s.
Mike “Pev” Peverill
From humble beginnings
in the basement of a strip
shopping center in Woodbridge, Virginia, Mike Peverill
built a retail empire around
the first store that bore
his name. Pev’s went on to
become the largest retail
paintball chain in the industry, with multiple fields and
multiple stores in the Washington, DC area. Pev retired
from professional paintball with Bad Company to
grow this chain of fields and
stores, and had his hands in
other projects as well. Pev
had a hand in publishing
PCRI, a newspaper packed
with competitions and gear
reviews. Most recently, Pev
built his “super-field” just
outside Washington, DC and
has hosted several professional tournament there with
the NPPL, attracting outside
sponsors like Range Rover.
Gino Postorivo
Anyone that can go from
selling a few paintballs out
of his father’s pizzeria to
becoming one of the largest entities in paintball has
got to make every list. After
years at National Paintball
Supply, creating brands like
32 Degrees and Empire,
Gino stepped out of paintball
but has recently returned at
the helm of his new company, Valken.
Johnny Postorivo
Since coming aboard with
National Paintball Supply
in its early days, Johnny
Postorivo has become an
increasingly important part
of the paintball world. From
sales to some of National
Paintball’s largest store and
field customers and management of the company’s sales
force, to handling sponsorship with major tournament
series, Johnny helped paintball grow. When National
Paintball and PMI became
KEE Action Sports, Johnny
stuck with the company and
became an important part
of the new corporate entity
as it found its place in the
industry. Johnny has also
been influential in the decision-making of the PSP.
Chris Raehl
In addition to creating a viable college paintball program, the NCPA, that allows
students who love the game
to participate in a legitimate
way, Chris Raehl did something else momentous for
paintball, the APPA. Yes, the
scoring, scheduling and player identification and ranking
program used by the PSP
and, finally, most every other serious league in paintball, was his doing. Finally,
thanks to Chris Raehl, tour-