Primary Job Title Managing Principal Primary Organization 
Lazard Technology Partners
Location New York, New York, United States Regions Greater New York Area, East Coast, Northeastern US Gender Male
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Russell E. Planitzer is employed at Infinity Venture Fund. He serves as Managing Principal at Lazard Technology Partners. Russell Planitzer co-founded Lazard Technology Partners in 1998.
His areas of investment focus include communications, enterprise software, internet applications, business process applications, financial services and
information technology. He served as the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of NewRiver, Inc. He served as the Managing Director of Lazard Freres & Co. LLC.
Russell Planitzer orchestrated the sale of Computervisions to Parametric Technology Corporation and served as its Chief Executive Officer from April 1993 to November 1996 and also the President from April 1993 to November 1995.
From 1981 to 1993, he was a General Partner at J. H. Whitney & Co., where he established a strong investment record by focusing on early stage technology and emerging growth companies, including the incubation and founding of Wellfleet Communications, Inc. (renamed Bay Networks, Inc.).
In 1993, he left J. H. Whitney and joined in Computervision. He also served as the Chief Executive Officer of Computervision Corp and its Chairman since August 1989.
Russell Planitzer serves on the Boards of Directors of the following companies: Eureka Networks, Marketing Technology Solutions, Inc., New River, Inc., and Passkey International, Inc.(alternately Passkey.com). He has served on the boards of a dozen public and private companies. He served as a Member of the Board of Directors of Intersolv Inc. since 1982.
He served as a Member of the Board of Directors at Quantum Bridge Communications Inc. (since November 1998), WizardWorld, Inc., NetByTel, Inc., Kubi Software, Inc., Interwise, Inc., TAZZ Networks, Inc. and Tabor Corporation.
He served as a Director of the National Venture Capital Association. In recognition of his accomplishments at Computervision, D. H. Brown and Associates named him “CEO of the year 1995”.
Russell Planitzer holds an M.B.A. degree from Harvard Business School and is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland with a BS in Mechanical Engineering
