Russell Artzt  Russell M. Artzt (born 1948) is an American businessesman and software developer. He co-founded Computer Associates (now CA Technologies) with Charles B. Wang. He met Wang in the 1960s while he was working at the Electronic Laboratories at Columbia University. They became friends and later both joined Standard Data, before founding CA in 1976. Artzt served as Vice Chairman and as President in charge of . In 2015, he left his role as co-chairman on CA Technologies’ Board of Directors. He currently serves as the executive chairman of RingLead, a cloud based data management company.