Bruno To Run Company With State Contracts

The former state Senate Majority Leader, Joseph Bruno, has been hired as chief executive of CMA Consulting Services, which provides computer programming and information technology to the state and other clients.

CMA, based at suburban Albany, is headed by the widow of a longtime Republican Senator Ronald Stafford, Kay McCabe Stafford. With the hiring of Mr. Bruno, she becomes company president and board chairwoman.

The 79-year-old Mr. Bruno, who retired from the Legislature last week, had been a senator since 1976 and headed the Senate's Republican majority since 1995. He had appointed Ms. Stafford chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.

Mr. Bruno says he looks forward to expanding the national company, which has 410 employees and offices at New York City, Maryland, Texas, and Arizona.