HR0889 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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HOUSE RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of Representatives are pleased to honor Howard A. Tullman and Judith Zindell Tullman on receiving the Anshe Emet Synagogue's Inaugural Rabbi Michael Siegel Visionary Award; and

WHEREAS, The Tullmans have been devoted members and supporters of Anshe Emet Synagogue for more than 30 years; and

WHEREAS, Judith Tullman is a graduate of the University of Illinois and was a devoted teacher in the Chicago Public Schools for 20 years; and

WHEREAS, Judith Tullman has tirelessly volunteered for numerous Chicago-based organizations, including the Wrightwood Neighbors and Parks Board, Facing History, and the Chicago Children's Museum; and

WHEREAS, Judith Tullman was founder of the Anshe Emet Social Action Committee (now called Na'aseh) and the Artists of Anshe Emet; and

WHEREAS, Judith Tullman has been a fundraiser and board member for PAWS Chicago for nearly 20 years; and

WHEREAS, Howard Tullman is the past CEO of 1871 in Chicago, a non-profit startup hub which is home to more than 500 digital startups, and the general managing partner for the Chicago High Tech Investment Partners, LLC and for G2T3V, LLC, a Chicago-based, early-stage venture capital fund; and

WHEREAS, Howard Tullman is a nationally-known and recognized authority on startups, entrepreneurship, change management and disruptive innovation, has more than 50 years of venture growth and management, IPO/M&A financings, and turn-around experience, and has founded more than a dozen successful, high-tech businesses; and

WHEREAS, Howard Tullman graduated with honors, with a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Economics from Northwestern University; and

WHEREAS, Howard Tullman graduated with honors from the Northwestern University School of Law, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif, served as the chairman of the editors of the Law Review, and was selected as a Ford Foundation Fellow, developing, along with James R. Thompson, former Governor of Illinois, a national Ford Foundation program for the study of criminal law; and

WHEREAS, Howard Tullman was the Chairman/CEO of Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts Academy, which he co-founded in 2007 with the former president of Kendall College and the former chairman of Experiencia; and

WHEREAS, Howard Tullman has served as a trustee of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the New York Academy of Art, and the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University; he was the lead director and former chairman of the Princeton Review; and

WHEREAS, Howard Tullman currently serves as a director of Vehcon and SnapSheet and served as a long-time director and board chairman of the Cobalt Group; and

WHEREAS, Howard Tullman founded CCC Information Services, the fastest growing company in Illinois from 1981 through 1985, and, while running CCC, was selected Entrepreneur of the Year by Peat Marwick and Crain's Chicago Business in 1986 and Venture Magazine and Arthur Young & Co. in 1987; and

WHEREAS, Howard Tullman has served as CEO of Eager Enterprises, Information Kinetics, Inc., COIN, Inc., and the Xceed Group, Inc., president and CEO of Imagination Pilots, Inc., and chairman and CEO of Tunes.com, Inc.; and

WHEREAS, Howard Tullman is the chair of the Anshe Emet Synagogue Endowment Committee and a member of numerous city and state boards, an advisory board member of HighTower Advisors and Imerman Angels, and an adjunct professor at Northwestern's Kellogg School, as well as a regular lecturer at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law; and

WHEREAS, Howard and Judith Tullman, and the 1871 team, have worked with the Dyett High School for the Arts and written a book to help develop the Eagle Entrepreneurs program to train young entrepreneurs; and

WHEREAS, The Tullmans are art lenders and donors to more than a dozen major museums in Illinois and across the country; therefore, be it

RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we congratulate Howard and Judith Tullman on their lifetime accomplishments as community leaders, philanthropists, innovators, educators and art collectors, and their receipt of the Inaugural Rabbi Michael Siegel Visionary Award; and be it further

RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be presented to Howard A. Tullman and Judith Zindell Tullman as an expression of our esteem and respect.