Nick Truter is parting ways with Planet Eclipse after a decade of service to join Virtue Paintball as the Director of Sales and Marketing in Europe. The position Nick is filling will be created specifically to help Virtue grow the leading goggle and loader brand not only in Europe, but worldwide.
"This has been a year of considerable change for me; both personally and now professionally. I am very proud of the part that I have played in the evolution of Planet Eclipse and would like to thank everyone who I have worked with there and wish them all the best,” said Nick Truter. “My future sees me take on a fresh challenge, embrace new surroundings and grow into my new role with one of the most dynamic, exciting and energetic companies in the industry; Virtue Paintball."
Nick has been playing paintball for the last 25 years, starting when he was just 12 years old. As a founding member of pro team Nexus, and one of the original England X-Ball members, Nick is one of the most recognizable players not only in the history of UK paintball, but the world.
"In the 8 or so years I've know Nicky T any interaction with him was always more than pleasant. Any time his name came up there was a similar consensus of ‘We're not sure what his title is, but he'll help you with anything, and everybody loves him’,” said Mike Newman, President of Virtue Paintball
Before joining Planet Eclipse, Nick worked for 8 years with Smart Parts Europe. As an avid paintball player Nick has parlayed his shooting skills into success in Sporting Clays where has an aspiration to represent England one day in the sport.
“Nick is about as well rounded as you can get both as a Paintball Player and Industry Player, and I'm certain will be a worldwide asset for Virtue Paintball. We are all super excited to be working together with him," said Mike Newman
In August, 2012 Virtue Paintball unveiled the Spire. Its purpose was to deliver to the best players in the world a jam-proof feeding system, fast tool-less assembly, in an aggressive, light weight, compact design that holds more paint than its competitors. A year later, the Spire 260, was launched, which brought a whopping 260 round capacity loader to the market that was still smaller than it’s sub-200 round competitors.
In early 2014, Virtue began shipping the revolutionary VIO goggle system, which is being widely regarded as the most comfortable and customizable goggle in paintball. Within two years, Virtue Paintball has become The Leader in Goggle and Loader Technology.
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