About Us
Elizabeth A. Hubbard, CEO
Elizabeth Hubbard is the chief architect of Synaptic Gaming. She is also founder and partner of Your Money Matters Institute, a developer and provider of personal financial management instructional materials and tools that have been approved by the U.S. Department of Justice and the State of Texas. Before creating the revolutionary programs offered by Your Money Matters Institute, she spent ten years reengineering various aspects of the electronic financial transactions industry. Ms. Hubbard has eighteen years experience in both technology companies (including Atari) and academia. Ms. Hubbard holds a BA from Brigham Young University - Hawaii and an MBA from Pepperdine University.
Dr. Michael Savoie, Ph.D., VP Business Development
President and CEO of HyperGrowth Solutions, Inc., an information technology integration company, Dr. Savoie has over 20 years experience in Executive Management, Information Systems, Engineering, Operations Management and Training. He has performed work for a myriad of public and private enterprises from startups to Fortune 50 as well as federal, state, and local governmental entities. Dr. Savoie also serves as the Director of E-Business Initiatives and as Director of the Center for Information Technology and Management (CITM) in the School of Management at The University of Texas at Dallas and as Director of the Center for Applied Information Technology, a non-profit education and research think tank. Dr. Savoie has over 20 years of University teaching experience and is the author of over 150 articles, chapters, and books. He also served 4 terms as Mayor of the Town of Northlake, Texas. Dr. Savoie has a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, an MBA, and a Ph.D. in Operations Management with a Business Computer Information Systems support.
Angela Larson, Co-Founder
After receiving her Associate of Arts and Paralegal Certificate in 1990, Angela Larson spent the following ten years as managing paralegal for three large Salt Lake City bankruptcy law firms. Some of the programs she developed and implemented were settlement negotiations with lenders and legal counsel; foreclosure rescue services; financial education; credit enhancement services and insurance services. As Angela worked with her clients, it became apparent that few lenders or credit counseling services were willing to assist secondary credit consumers in rebuilding their credit. In 2002, she opened 1st Financial Strategies to service the market niche.