High Point Entertainment

HPE creates video slot and poker games. Founder, Larry Hodgson invented and co-designed Golden Tee Golf™ that generated $2bn in revenues.

  • Stage $500K in TTM Revenue
  • Industry Software
  • Location Palatine, IL, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded July 2011
  • Employees 11
  • Website highpointent.com

Company Summary

High Point Entertainment is a two-year-old company that creates video slot and poker games for use in regulated brick-and-mortar casinos, online iGaming casinos, and social casinos. HPE generated over $400,000 in revenue in 2012. The founder Mr. Larry Hodgson was the inventor, manager, programmer, and co-designer of Golden Tee Golf™, the most successful pay-to play video game in history. This game alone generated over $2bn in game play revenues.

Team

  • Lawrence Hodgson
    President and CEO

    Former Vice President of Product Development at Incredible Technologies, Inc. (IT), a multi-million dollar manufacturer of coin operated pay-for play video games and slot machines. Mr. Hodgson has more than 25 years of experience in developing and managing technology and entertainment products. He has designed, programmed, and / or managed more than 50 products in his career.

  • Erin Wells
    Director of Business Development

    Six years of sales and account management experience. Three of those years were in a management and leadership role. Ms. Wells is an MBA graduate with experience in the human resources/recruiting industry. Additionally, Ms. Wells has worked in, and developed programs for higher education, creative arts career guidance.

  • Mark Collantes
    Corporate Development / Investor Relations

    27 years of market experience trading futures, options, equities, and foreign currencies. He was formerly registered with FINRA and held the Series 7, 63, 55 and 3 licenses.

    He was a proprietary trader for several firms trading the equity and futures markets. He is an authorized representative for Jenepe, the firm takes companies through the initial public offering (IPO) process in both London and Frankfurt.

  • Chris Anilao
    Director of Software Development

    Former software engineer and team lead at Cummins Allison, Toshiba, Life Fitness, and WMS Gaming. While at Toshiba, Mr. Anilao led a team of engineers and contributed to the development of the Aquilion One X-Ray Scanner. He also contributed to the development of several major products including the Life Fitness Touch Screen Treadmill, WMS Gaming's Transmissive Reels®, and Cummins Allison's public server technology, that is currently responsible f

Advisors

  • Ted Wern, Perkins Coie LLP
    Lawyer
    Unconfirmed
    Robert B. Fisher CPA PC
    Accountant
    Unconfirmed

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