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Howard A. Tullman

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Howard A. Tullman is an American serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, educator, writer, lecturer, and art collector. He currently serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts Academy and of HYDR>BOX, LLC. and as the Managing Partner of Chicago High Tech Investment Partners, LLC.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Education 3 Entrepreneurial career 3.1 Noteworthy positions held 4 Law career 5 Written works 6 Howard A. and Judith Tullman art collection 7 Works 8 Further reading 9 References

Early life

Born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1945, Tullman was raised in a "humble but driven and competitive" family of eight.^[1] He is the son of an apparel salesman and a stay-at-home mother (who later ran for public office in New Jersey)^[2] and the eldest of six siblings.^[3]

A seasoned entrepreneur by age 10 (having built both a candy racket and a magic performance business in his free time), Tullman and his family moved to Highland Park, Illinois in 1955^[4]. Tullman graduated from Highland Park High School in 1963.

Education

Tullman attended Northwestern University for his undergraduate degree, graduating Cum Laude in 1967 with a B.A. in Mathematics and Economics.^[5] He went on to receive his J.D. from Northwestern's School of Law where he graduated with Honors in 1970. During his time at Northwestern, Tullman was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as the Chairman of the Editors of the Law Review.^[6] He was selected as a Ford Foundation Fellow and developed, along with James R. Thompson, former Governor of Illinois, a national Ford Foundation program for the study of criminal law.

Entrepreneurial career

Tullman's entrepreneurial career spans four decades and a broad swath of industries. As of May 2011, Tullman has started 12 companies, including Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts Academy, CCC Information Services, Tunes.com, the Rolling Stone Network, Imagination Pilots, Experiencia, and others. ^[7] Tullman has also been tapped for senior executive positions at established companies such as Kendall College, where his expertise in turn-arounds saved the school from going into bankruptcy in 2003.^[8]

Noteworthy positions held

• President and CEO, Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts Academy
• Chairman and CEO, Experiencia
• President, Kendall College
• CEO, Worldwide Xceed Group, Inc., a public Chicago-based provider of digital strategy and Internet design services
• CEO, Tunes.com, a early provider of online digital music and other resources and the developer under his guidance and direction of Rollingstone.com, DownbeatJazz.com and The Source.com – the top 3 music sites in the early 1990s
• CEO, Imagination Pilots, Inc., a multimedia software developer specializing in CD-ROM games and entertainment products for the PC and Macintosh
• CEO, Eager Enterprises, Inc., a privately held information industry venture capital firm which he founded in Chicago
• Chairman, Financial Protection Services, a privately held corporation providing computerized information to businesses and consumers
• Founder and CEO, CCC Information Services, the largest subsidiary of FPSI
• CEO, Information Kinetics, Inc. and Career Network, which developed and marketed a unique national computerized database of job candidates
• CEO, COIN, Inc., a provider of automotive information, communication channels, and information management systems to the automotive industry and to related credit and financial industries
• Co-founder, Monumental Art and Events, Inc., an event marketing organization
• CEO, Original Research II, a customer satisfaction measurement and management company
• Chairman of the Board and Lead Director of The Cobalt Group in Seattle and The Princeton Review in New York.

Law career

Tullman practiced law from the time he was admitted to the Bar in 1970 until 1980, specializing in large-scale class action cases and Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases.^[9]. In 1974, he was admitted on special petition to the Bar of the United States Supreme Court.^[10] He retired from law to found CCC Information Services.^[11]

Written works

Tullman has written, lectured and been interviewed on a number of legal and career issues. He has contributed chapters to several books, including Life After Law and Innovating Chicago Style. He also wrote the preface for You Need to be a Little Crazy by Barry Moltz, and his business ventures are included in a more recent book by Robert Jordan entitled How They Did It.

Tullman currently writes The Perspiration Principles, which appears weekly on Inc. Magazine's website, Inc.com.^[12] The articles published on Inc. served as the foundation for Tullman’s initial book, The Perspiration Principles, published September 2012. He is also the author of HindSight, a newsletter on current topics of interest to entrepreneurs and managers.

Howard A. and Judith Tullman art collection

The Howard A. and Judith Tullman art collection is among the largest and most diverse collections of contemporary realist art in America.^[13] The collection contains upwards of 1,300 pieces, more than 250 of which line the halls of Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts Academy.^[14]

In addition to being an active collector, Tullman has also lent and donated art from the Tullman Collection to museums^[15] including:

• Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art
• Smart Museum of Art of the University of Chicago
• Art Institute of Chicago
• Chicago Children's Museum
• Evanston Art Center
• The Springfield Art Museum
• Milwaukee Art Museum
• The Madison Art Center
• The Arnot Museum
• Frye Museum
• Mobile Museum of Art
• The Museum of the South
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Tullman has worked closely over the last 30 years with various artists and, some years ago, created a limited edition work of art in collaboration with the internationally known artist, Christo, which was used as a fund raising project for the Museum of Contemporary Art, where he previously served as a Trustee. The Tullman Collection has been featured in numerous catalogs including a major publication of 61 paintings from the Collection by the Mobile Museum of Art.

Works

• Altman, Mary Ann (1991). Life After Law: Second Careers for Lawyers. W. Smith Co. ISBN 978-0963061003.
• Kuczmarski, Thomas D.; Dan Miller and Luke Tanen (2012). Innovating Chicago Style: How Local Innovators are Building the National Economy. Chicago: Book Ends Publisher. pp. 74-75. ISBN 978-0-615-54885-2.
• Moltz, Barry (2008). You Need To Be a Little Crazy. Chicago: AuthorHouse. pp. xiii. ISBN 978-1438921907.
• Jordan, Robert (2010). How They Did It: Billion Dollar Insights from the Heart of America. Chicago: RedFlash Press. pp. 152-156. ISBN 978-0615385433.
• Tullman, Howard A. (2012). The Perspiration Principles. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN 978-1479250424.

Further reading

• "How Glen and Howard Tullman Became Entrepreneurs", Businessweek, Chicago, 21 August 2008. Retrieved on 20 November 2012.
• "The Most Accomplished, Best-Connected Entrepreneur You've Never Heard Of", Inc. Magazine, 28 February 2012. Retrieved on 27 November 2012.

References

1. ^ Black, Johnathan (May 2011). "Howard Tullman’s Flashpoint Academy: A Digital-Arts Alternative to the Four-Year College Degree". Chicago Magazine. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
2. ^ Black, Johnathan (May 2011). "Howard Tullman’s Flashpoint Academy: A Digital-Arts Alternative to the Four-Year College Degree". Chicago Magazine. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
3. ^ Kravitz, Seth. "The Magic Man: How Howard Tullman has Produced the Ultimate Innovators' Playpen". Technori. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
4. ^ Kravitz, Seth. "The Magic Man: How Howard Tullman has Produced the Ultimate Innovators' Playpen". Technori. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
5. ^ Kravitz, Seth. "The Magic Man: How Howard Tullman has Produced the Ultimate Innovators' Playpen". Technori. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
6. ^ Kravitz, Seth. "The Magic Man: How Howard Tullman has Produced the Ultimate Innovators' Playpen". Technori. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
7. ^ Black, Johnathan (May 2011). "Howard Tullman’s Flashpoint Academy: A Digital-Arts Alternative to the Four-Year College Degree". Chicago Magazine. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
8. ^ Black, Johnathan (May 2011). "Howard Tullman’s Flashpoint Academy: A Digital-Arts Alternative to the Four-Year College Degree". Chicago Magazine. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
9. ^ Kravitz, Seth. "The Magic Man: How Howard Tullman has Produced the Ultimate Innovators' Playpen". Technori. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
10. ^ Black, Johnathan (May 2011). "Howard Tullman’s Flashpoint Academy: A Digital-Arts Alternative to the Four-Year College Degree". Chicago Magazine. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
11. ^ Kravitz, Seth. "The Magic Man: How Howard Tullman has Produced the Ultimate Innovators' Playpen". Technori. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
12. ^ Tullman, Howard. "The Perspiration Principles". Inc.com. Inc. Magazine. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
13. ^ "The Things Make the Art". American Art Collector (77): 56–61. April 2008. Retrieved 20 November 2012.
14. ^ Black, Johnathan (May 2011). "Howard Tullman’s Flashpoint Academy: A Digital-Arts Alternative to the Four-Year College Degree". Chicago Magazine. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
15. ^ Rose, Joshua; Terri Dodd (October 2006). "The Tullman Collector". American Art Collector (12): 72–81.