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Howard A. Tullman serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Flashpoint Academy (flashpointacademy.com), Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Experiencia, Inc., and President Emeritus of Kendall College, in Chicago. Mr. Tullman is General Managing Partner for the Chicago High Tech Investors, LLC and a Director of The Cobalt Group (cobaltgroup.com) and Passage Events (passageevents.com) in Seattle. He is also a Trustee of WTTW in Chicago and an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern's Kellogg Graduate School of Management in Evanston, Illinois.Mr. Tullman has over 30 years of management and turn-around experience and an extensive operations background in online services, large-scale information assembly and delivery systems, database design and the development, creation and production of all types and formats of multimedia content including CD-ROMs and DVDs. He has designed and developed interactive interfaces, computer games and other electronic entertainment, training products and services, and other information-based products and services.“All the amenities that are offered are really the same playing field for any company. I don’t see any favoritism or anything that the Warehouse particularly does. It’s more general like any challenges that make it harder for a woman entrepreneur to grow. There’s definitely challenges there.“One thing about Chicago is the lack of resources in terms of good developers. When there’s 10 percent of developers who are women, it doesn’t flow into my network. If I were looking for salespeople, I have great resources. When you get into anything more challenging, sales management, anything involved in technology, from developer to CTO, really any higher positions are a lot harder to source in terms of the relationships.