Howard A. Tullman serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts Academy. He is the former President/CEO of Kendall College in Chicago and of Experiencia, Inc. Mr. Tullman is the General Managing Partner for the Chicago High Tech Investors, LLC and a Director of the Rally Marketing Group in Seattle. He is a Trustee of WTTW/WFMT in Chicago and of the New York Academy of Art, the Chairman of the Endowment Committee of Anshe Emet Synagogue in Chicago, a member of Mayor Emanuel’s Council of Technology Advisors and Governor Quinn’s Illinois Innovation Council, an advisor to HighTower Associates, PrepMe LLC and uBID.com in Chicago and to Mudd Advertising/Mudd 360 in Iowa. Mr. Tullman also served as a long-time Director and Board Chairman of The Cobalt Group, as a Trustee of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and as a Director of the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, as well as the lead Director of The Princeton Review and briefly as its Board Chair.
Mr. Tullman is a graduate with Honors of Northwestern University (B.A., 1967) and of its School of Law (J.D., 1970), where he also graduated with Honors, was elected to the Order of the Coif, and served as the Chairman of the Editors of The Law Review. He was selected as a Ford Foundation Fellow for the study of criminal law. Mr. Tullman was admitted to the Bar in 1970 and, on special petition, to the Bar of the United States Supreme Court in 1974. He practiced in Chicago for 10 years, specializing in Federal litigation, and served by appointment as a Special Master for class action litigation in the Southern District of New York. Mr. Tullman has written, lectured and been interviewed on a
number of legal and career issues. He contributed a chapter on his activities to a book entitled Life after Law which describes lawyers who have opted for alternative careers. Mr. Tullman has also served as an Arbitrator for more than 35 years for the American Arbitration Association.
Mr. Tullman is an active art collector, lender and donor to museums including the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Smart Museum of Art of the University of Chicago, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Chicago Children's Museum, the Evanston Art Center, the Springfield Art Museum, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Madison Art Center, the Arnot Museum, the Frye Museum, the Mobile Museum of Art, the Museum of the South and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in Chicago. Mr. Tullman has worked closely over the last 40 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 fundraising project for the Museum of Contemporary Art.