About the Author
Howard A. Tullman is President and CEO of Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts Academy in Chicago. He is the former President of Kendall College in Chicago and the former Chairman/CEO of Experiencia, Inc. He is also the General Managing Partner for Chicago High Tech Investors, a member of Mayor Emanuel's Innovation Leadership Council and Cultural Advisory Council and of Governor Quinn's Illinois Innovation Council and Illinois Arts Council as well as an adjunct professor at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and a regular guest lecturer at the Northwestern University School of Law. In addition, Mr. Tullman served as a long-time Director and Board Chairman of The Cobalt Group, as a Trustee of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, as a Director of the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, and as the lead Director of The Princeton Review and briefly as its Board Chair while assisting in its successful sale to Bain Capital. He is an Advisory Board member for HighTower Advisors and serves on several other boards as well. Over the last 45 years, he has successfully founded more than a dozen high-tech companies and created over $1 billion in investor value as well as thousands of jobs across the United States and Canada. Mr. Tullman has decades of start-up, management, IPO and turn-around experience and an extensive operations background in web development, online services, large-scale information assembly and delivery systems, database design and implementation and the development, creation and production of all types and formats of multimedia, computer games and audio/video digital content. He has designed and developed GUI and natural user interfaces, interactive and immersive games and instruction systems and other electronic entertainments, training products and services, as well as other information-based products and services in a variety of fields including automotive, insurance, CRM, employment, food services, real estate, consumer goods and social media. He can be contacted at www.tullman.com or tullman.blogspot.com or @tullman