Harvey Tillis - Bio

Harvey Tillis applies more than 35 years of experience as a businessman, designer, photographer and artist in the financial, corporate, and advertising communities to the fields of communicating through interactive media and photography. Starting with a successful fifteen year career in the commodity futures industry he moved toward a life-long passion with documentary and editorial photography shooting for corporate publications of Fortune 500 companies and people-related advertising.

Since the early 1990's Harvey has been forming virtual teams composed of independent Internet and interactive multimedia professionals whose complementary skills and personalities result in highly effective, efficiently produced projects for both large and small clients around the US. He has also worked as a strategist, Creative Director, Producer, and Director of Business Development for dynamic Web and systems integration companies in Chicago on a variety of projects for, among others, Sears, Quill, CSX, and Motorola.

Harvey was a founding member of the Association for Multimedia Communications, one of Chicago's largest and fastest growing interactive multimedia and Internet trade groups. He has been it's President since 1994. In this position Harvey has produced hundreds of meetings covering every phase and topic on the New Media and Internet scene.

Harvey has taught E-Business Strategies at Chicago's Columbia College; is on the multimedia advisory boards of Columbia College and the Illinois Institute of Art; and has served on the graphics advisory board of Evanston Township High School and the Business Advisory Counsel of Senn High School in Chicago.

Harvey is presently devoting his time to producing editorial, documentary and event photography for nonprofit, corporate, and government agency clients in Chicago and around the US.