WHY REFLEX PROTECT TACTICAL?
Because LE and tactical professionals want an immediate and safe take-down measure and an effective and fast-acting decon solution that immediately puts officers back in the field.
Because officers deserve gold-star training on cutting-edge products.
Because innovation can and should serve and protect civilians and officers alike.
HOW REFLEX PROTECT BEGAN
The mantra has always been “simple, safe, and effective.”
Inventor Steve Mangold, a lifetime hunter, NRA member and former military wondered if his patented pistol-style spray head designed to improve bear spray effectiveness and safety might be even more useful in the non-lethal market.
He approached Joe Anderson, a fellow Montanan and successful entrepreneur with the idea. What Steve didn’t know was that Joe’s entrepreneurial career began in response to a gunman entering his former law firm and killing nine people, including friends and colleagues. Joe immediately recognized the far-reaching potential of Steve’s invention and together they set out to develop the most effective less-lethal tools, technologies and training to protect and empower a nation.
The result is Reflex Protect®, a safety preparedness company dedicated to minimizing suffering from violence for everyone, everywhere. The company created the first “hospital safe” active defense solution by adding Steve’s Reflex™ spray head to a brand new non-aerosol sticky CS formula called Presidia Gel® that could be safely deployed inside a hospital without contamination. Then came Reflex Remove®, a game-changing decon that cleaned up so effectively it was as if nothing ever happened. Superior civilian training and protocols were offered for wherever people live, work, worship, or play.
Reflex Protect Tactical is the newest division, focused entirely on law enforcement and corrections, security and military forces and their training at the hands of established LE instructors.
THE REFLEX PROTECT TEAM
From police captains and military vets to martial arts and civilian safety trainers, from less-lethal industry experts and OxiClean chemists to school teachers and SWAT and DOD instructors.
Reflex Protect stands behind providing law enforcement and other security personnel with the finest controlling force products that can be used with confidence on suspects, around innocent bystanders, and without impacting officers themselves.
MATT SCHAEFER
CEO
You would choose Matt to be on your team every time. He is an Army veteran and has been on the force since 1995, with a focus on special ops starting in 1997. He has experience working everything from corrections and uniform patrol to narcotics, investigations, and SWAT. A master of instruction, he has received training from the USMS, FBI, Secret Service, Federal Air Marshals, FLETC among others, and has in turn trained local, state, and federal law enforcement, DOD, and DOS personnel in weapons and tactics around the globe.
JOE ANDERSON
FOUNDER
Joe has an uncanny ability to listen and then find agreement move things forward. Because of it, he has enjoyed a 30-year entrepreneurial and legal career. After the 101 California Street mass shooting, Joe left big firm practice to open his own private practice and apply his legal expertise to help start-ups and next generation ideas become reality. Offering a superior less-lethal product to reduce gun violence closes an important loop in his life.
STEVE MANGOLD
FOUNDER
When Steve sees inefficiencies in products or procedures, he can’t help but get to work seeking a better design. It’s been this way since he was a child and he figured out how to make perfect bacon in a toaster. He holds several patents, and continues to think creatively for Reflex Protect in existing and untapped markets. A lifetime hunter, Steve is the inventor of the intuitive Reflex® technology spray head.
