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1
HOUSE RESOLUTION

  
 
2    WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of 
3Representatives are pleased to honor
Howard A. Tullman and 
4Judith Zindell Tullman on receiving the Anshe Emet
Synagogue's 
5Inaugural Rabbi Michael Siegel Visionary Award; and
  
 
6    WHEREAS, The Tullmans have been devoted members and 
7supporters of Anshe Emet
Synagogue for more than 30 years; and
  
 
8    WHEREAS, Judith Tullman is a graduate of the University of 
9Illinois and was a devoted
teacher in the Chicago Public 
10Schools for 20 years; and
  
 
11    WHEREAS, Judith Tullman has tirelessly volunteered for 
12numerous Chicago-based
organizations, including the Wrightwood 
13Neighbors and Parks Board, Facing History, and the
Chicago 
14Children's Museum; and
 
15    WHEREAS, Judith Tullman was founder of the Anshe Emet 
16Social Action Committee
(now called Na'aseh) and the Artists of 
17Anshe Emet; and
 
18    WHEREAS, Judith Tullman has been a fundraiser and board 
19member for PAWS
Chicago for nearly 20 years; and
 
 
 
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1    WHEREAS, Howard Tullman is the past CEO of 1871 in Chicago, 
2a non-profit
startup hub which is home to more than 500 digital 
3startups, and the general managing partner
for the Chicago High 
4Tech Investment Partners, LLC and for G2T3V, LLC, a 
5Chicago-based,
early-stage venture capital fund; and
 
6    WHEREAS, Howard Tullman is a nationally-known and 
7recognized authority on
startups, entrepreneurship, change 
8management and disruptive innovation, has more than 50
years of 
9venture growth and management,
IPO/M&A financings, and 
10turn-around experience, and has founded more than a dozen 
11successful, high-tech businesses; and
 
12    WHEREAS, Howard Tullman graduated with honors, with a 
13Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics
and Economics from Northwestern 
14University; and
 
15    WHEREAS, Howard Tullman graduated with honors from the 
16Northwestern University
School of Law, where he was elected to 
17the Order of the Coif, served as the chairman of the
editors of 
18the Law Review, and was selected as a Ford Foundation Fellow, 
19developing, along
with James R. Thompson, former Governor of 
20Illinois, a national Ford Foundation program for
the study of 
21criminal law; and
 
22    WHEREAS, Howard Tullman was the Chairman/CEO of Tribeca 
 
 
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1Flashpoint Media
Arts Academy, which he co-founded in 2007 with 
2the former president of Kendall College and the former chairman 
3of Experiencia; and
 
4    WHEREAS, Howard Tullman has served as a trustee of the 
5Museum of
Contemporary Art in Chicago, the New York Academy of 
6Art, and the Mary and Leigh Block
Museum of Art at Northwestern 
7University; he was the lead director and former chairman of
the 
8Princeton Review; and
 
9    WHEREAS, Howard Tullman currently serves as a director of 
10Vehcon and SnapSheet
and served as a long-time director and 
11board chairman of the Cobalt Group; and
 
12    WHEREAS, Howard Tullman founded CCC Information Services, 
13the fastest growing
company in Illinois from 1981 through 1985, 
14and, while running CCC, was selected
Entrepreneur of the Year 
15by Peat Marwick and Crain's Chicago Business in 1986 and 
16Venture
Magazine and Arthur Young & Co. in 1987; and
 
17    WHEREAS, Howard Tullman has served as CEO of Eager 
18Enterprises, Information
Kinetics, Inc., COIN, Inc., and the 
19Xceed Group, Inc., president and CEO of Imagination Pilots,

20Inc., and chairman and CEO of Tunes.com, Inc.; and
 
21    WHEREAS, Howard Tullman is the chair of the Anshe Emet 
 
 
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1Synagogue Endowment
Committee and a member of numerous city and 
2state boards, an advisory board member of
HighTower Advisors 
3and Imerman Angels, and an adjunct professor at Northwestern's 
4Kellogg
School, as well as a regular lecturer at the 
5Northwestern Pritzker School of Law; and
  
 
6    WHEREAS, Howard and Judith Tullman, and the 1871 team, have 
7worked with the
Dyett High School for the Arts and written a 
8book to help develop the Eagle Entrepreneurs
program to train 
9young entrepreneurs; and
  
 
10    WHEREAS, The Tullmans are art lenders and donors to more 
11than a dozen major
museums in Illinois and across the country; 
12therefore, be it
  
 
13    RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE 
14HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we 
15congratulate Howard and Judith Tullman
on their lifetime 
16accomplishments as community leaders, philanthropists, 
17innovators, educators
and art collectors, and their receipt of 
18the Inaugural Rabbi Michael Siegel Visionary Award; and be it 
19further
  
 
20    RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be 
21presented to Howard A. Tullman
and Judith Zindell Tullman as an 
22expression of our esteem and respect.