FLASHPOINT NEWS

Flashpoint Announces HAT as President/CEO

Tullman Named CEO of Flashpoint Academy

Flashpoint Academy announced today that Howard A. Tullman, Chairman of the Boards of The Cobalt Group, The Princeton Review and Experiencia, Inc. and President Emeritus of Kendall College is the lead investor in a group which has made a substantial investment in the new college (scheduled to open in September 2007) and that Mr. Tullman has assumed the role of President and CEO of Flashpoint Academy, effective immediately. Ric Landry, the founder of Flashpoint, will remain actively involved in the new school as the Chairman of the Board of Directors.

Chairman Landry noted that “Howard’s involvement delivers on our promise to shareholders, faculty, students and parents to provide the best and brightest leadership for Flashpoint Academy. Howard’s track record in the digital media arts and educational arenas is unequaled in its brilliance and we look forward to Flashpoint becoming the premier digital arts program in the mid-west if not the country”

Tullman is the founder of numerous Chicago-based businesses in a wide variety of fields as well as an expert in entrepreneurship and change management. He has worked and lived in Chicago for more than 30 years and has employed thousands of business, technical and creative individuals in over a dozen successful businesses. He is a particularly important addition to the Flashpoint management team because, in addition to being a seasoned entrepreneur and a long-time adjunct business professor at the Kellogg school, he is an accomplished and award-winning computer game designer and developer, the founder of several of the country’s largest online music websites, one of the earliest developers of many of the computer animation techniques which have now become industry standards, and an established author, screenwriter and director with several projects currently under development. Tullman’s first website was selected for inclusion in the Permanent Research Collection of the Smithsonian Institute. His various products and projects have won numerous industry and peer awards over many years.

In the last 5 years, Tullman has turned his considerable talents and attention to the pressing need to improve education at all levels in and throughout the City of Chicago. He was responsible for the dramatic financial and institutional turnaround of Kendall College and its move (after 75 years) from Evanston to a brand-new, state-of-the-art campus in Chicago on Goose Island where it has quickly become the City’s premier culinary and hospitality school (and one of the top 3 culinary schools in America) as well as an important player in online early childhood education studies.

Tullman points out that he is especially excited about building a brand-new school like Flashpoint because this is such a crucial time and tipping point in the development of new educational methods. He said that “we need to educate our students in areas that no one knew yesterday and prepare our schools for what no one knows today. And we need to provide our graduates with faster, more cost-effective and more direct paths to concrete and immediate employment opportunities in today’s explosive digital media fields where the best jobs are waiting. Flashpoint means just that to me – in the moment, in a flash and to the point…no muss, no fuss, no wasted time or effort – just results.”

He financed, designed, built and opened the Immersive Learning Center of Experiencia, Inc., located a block away from the new Kendall College, where tens of thousands of Chicago elementary school students are being trained in innovative new programs to be young scientists and entrepreneurs in a 25,000 square foot facility that houses a complete mini-Chicago as well as 4 natural habitats and over 60 species of live animals. Tullman was also instrumental in selecting the location and assembling the parties now building the British School of Chicago which will be relocated to a brand new facility just 3 blocks north of Kendall College on Halsted Street.

Tullman is a graduate with honors of Northwestern University and a graduate with honors of its Law School as well where he served as Chairman of the Editors of the Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif. Tullman was appointed by President Clinton to serve as a member of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities.

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For Additional Information Contact:

Mary Owczarski
Flashpoint, The Academy of Media Arts and Sciences
28 North Clark
Chicago, IL 60602
312-332-0707
Or visit www.tfa.edu*

*Updated 7/9/12