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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.