Paul Niemann is currently the Sales Manager for Banner Fire Equipment Inc. in Roxana, Illinois and earned a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from Southern Illinois University. He previously served as a Professional Sales Coach for Southwestern Consulting and Operations Director for the United Inventors Association. He has owned a business to help inventors commercialize their new products, which led him to create a syndicated newspaper column about famous inventors. This column appeared in more than 100 papers nationwide over a ten-year period. He continues to have an interest in writing and has written three books.