Jeff Rusinow

Jeff Rusinow has been an active member of the early-stage venture capital community in the Midwest since 2000, when he founded Milwaukee’s first angel network, Silicon Pastures (www.siliconpastures.com). He earlier spent 22 years in retail management, holding senior executive positions at Macy’s, Gimbel’s, the Hudson Bay Company and, most recently, Kohl’s Department Stores, where he served as an Executive Vice President until leaving corporate mainstream in 2000.

Jeff has been on the Board of Directors of a number of private and public companies, as well as non-profits, over the past several years. Most recently, he was Chairman and lead investor of Internet retailer BUYSEASONS, Inc., which owns and manages the largest retailer of costumes in the world, BuyCostumes.com. BUYSEASONS was acquired in 2006 by Liberty Media.   Jeff is also on the board of the Wisconsin Humane Society.

Jeff is currently Chairman and lead investor of the privately held ModernMed (www.modernmed.com), a healthcare services company. Jeff is also President of ETR Group, LLC, which previously owned and managed the world’s largest Christmas-specific portal on the Internet, Christmas.com. In 2007, ETR Group launched several Facebook applications as well as two websites, the Internet content aggregator TopNetPix (www.topnetpix.com), and the shopping portal, Gr8find (www.gr8find.com).

Recently, Jeff self-published his book ‘The Rise & Stall of Kohl’s Department Stores’, the first book written about the history of one of the major companies in American retailing.  He is currently writing about his angel investing and other life experiences.

He has both a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Virginia. He resides in Scottsdale, Arizona and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Contact Jeff:

(414) 975.0369
jruzz@aol.com