Taking Care of Business: having an impact and staying relevant as ethnographers in today's economic climate
speakers
HOWARD TULLMAN
Howard A. Tullman serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Flashpoint Academy, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Experiencia, Inc., and he is the immediate past President of Kendall College, in Chicago which he recently sold to Laureate Education. Mr. Tullman is General Managing Partner for the Chicago High Tech Investors, LLC and a Director of The Cobalt Group and Passage Events, both located in Seattle. He is also a Trustee of WTTW in Chicago, Chairman of the Endowment Committee of Anshe Emet Synagogue in Chicago, a member of Mayor Daley's Council of Technology Advisors, and an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern's Kellogg Graduate School of Management in Evanston and also a regular guest lecturer at the Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago.
Mr. Tullman has over 35 years of new business development, entrepreneurial ventures, management and turn-around experience with a particular emphasis on information systems for the insurance and automotive industries and an extensive operations background in online services, large-scale information assembly and delivery systems, database design as well as in the development, creation and production of all types and formats of multimedia content including CD-ROMs and DVDs. He has designed and developed interactive interfaces, award-winning computer games, automated teaching systems, a number of the leading national music, video and employment websites, and other electronic entertainment, training products and services, along with many other information-based products and services.
After 10 years as a lawyer at Levy and Erens in Chicago, in 1980, Mr. Tullman founded CCC Information Services, Inc., a provider of information systems to the country's largest property and casualty insurers. CCC successfully raised venture capital and subsequently completed an IPO in 1983 and several subsequent public offerings. Since taking CCC Information Services private in 1987, Mr. Tullman has founded or served as CEO or Board Chairman of eight other entrepreneurial companies and as a director and/or advisor to many other early-stage companies. In 1990, he also founded Eager Enterprises, a venture capital firm focused on the information industry. He is also active in the arts and has served on the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (1993 – 2001).
Mr. Tullman graduated with a Bachelor of Arts, with Honors, from Northwestern University. He also holds a J.D., with Honors, from Northwestern University School of Law.
