Russell E. Planitzer

TAZZ Networks, Inc. provides policy control software solutions. It offers Policy Control Engine, a carrier-grade execution engine that delivers real-time policy evaluations and actions and TAZZ Application Modules, a carrier tested policy and service components for developing and delivering IP services. The company was founded by Jared S. Rosoff in 2001 and is headquartered in Providence, RI.

Interwise, Inc. builds conferencing systems that deliver streaming sound, voice, video and data to offer enterprise conferencing services. The firm has locations in North America, Asia, Japan, Europe, Switzerland, France, and Germany. The company was founded by Frank Zvi in 1994 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

J. H. Whitney & Co. LLC operates as an alternative investment manager. The firm provides private equity capital to small and middle market companies. The company was founded by John Hay Whitney in 1946 and is headquartered in New Canaan, CT.

Marketing Technology Solutions, Inc. provides patient identification and engagement platform. It offers patient activation, risk share contracts, clinical recruitment, and outcomes management solutions. The firm serves the pharmaceuticals and biotech, consumer health and wellness, health insurance, hospitals, and health systems, clinical research, elective surgery, durable medical equipment and medical devices and diagnostics industries. The company was founded by Ram Rao in 1999 and is headquartered in Jersey City, NJ.

NewRiver develops innovative technology solutions that help financial leaders simplify investor disclosure providing transparency and cost savings to the delivery of fund data and investor communications. Since 1995, the company has helped some of the world's leading financial organizations move from paper to electronic disclosure via an easy to use, cost-effective, managed service offering. NewRiver pioneered the first electronic prospectus, and is the only company to guarantee its data to be 'compliance grade' which allows customers to reduce risk, lower compliance costs and increase revenues. Through a patent-pending, automated process NewRiver efficiently monitors millions of data points from over 24,600 fund CUSIPs. Further, the company's unique 'paperless' approach improves the investor experience while offering a real alternative to the environmental impact of paper-only delivery. Relied on daily by over 100 leading financial services firms, and millions of investors, NewRiver is a trusted and growing solution provider facilitating the transition from paper-based mutual fund information, to electronic.

Prime Computer, Inc. manufactures mini computers and electronic components. It offers printers, projectors, consumer electronics, used monitors & desktop systems, software, protectors and video cards. The company was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Marietta, GA.

NetByTel, Inc. provided telecommunications services. The company was founded by Paul Robinson and Neal Bernstein in April, 2000 and is headquartered in Boca Raton, FL.

Lazard Technology Partners LLC (Lazard Technology Partners) is a venture capital subsidiary of LAI Partners LLC founded in 1998 by Russell Planitzer and Kevin Burns. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Kubi Software, Inc. provided business software solutions. Its product enabled sales people to coordinate and manage revenue-centric and sales-related activities from their email client, to shorten sales cycles. The company also offered a compelling platform for integrating with enterprise applications. It was founded by Julio Estrada in 2001 and was headquartered in Lincoln, MA