Mr. LaMagna served as Director, Worldwide Investigative and Law Enforcement Programs, Legal and Corporate Affairs, Microsoft Corporation from 1999-2006.

He started his own consulting business in May 2006 and is currently assisting several Fortune 500 companies to develop and manage both Internet and hard goods brand protection programs. In addition, he is also providing guidance and management expertise in helping them develsop and manage law enforcement relationships and training programs. After a 27-year career as a Special Agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) combating international drug trafficking, Mr. LaMagna was recruited by Microsoft in April 1999 to serve as Senior Manager for Worldwide Investigations; he was promoted to Director of Law Enforcement Programs in 2004.  In his former role he helped build the Microsoft Worldwide Anti-counterfeiting Team, managed worldwide investigations and law enforcement relations and provided operational and strategic guidance to the worldwide team. He also managed the North American investigative team.  Mr. LaMagna took the lead in formulating a worldwide strategy designed to identify, investigate, and dismantle top-level manufacturers and distributors of counterfeit Microsoft software. This highly-effective strategy enabled Microsoft, working with worldwide law enforcement agencies to prosecute and disrupt a number of very significant counterfeit manufacturing and distribution organizations, many of which were run by organized crime and accounted for millions of dollars in losses to the software industry.  Known for its successes, other companies have sought to emulate this model and Microsoft has applied these best practices to Internet Safety.  During the past three years Mr. LaMagna has taken the lead role for Microsoft in it’s commitment to the problem of online child safety and support to law enforcement and NGOs, in particular the International and National Centers for Missing and Exploited Children and Interpol. As a consultant he continues to manage Microsoft’s extensive training programs for law enforcement in the area of child exploitation as well as the company’s commitment to provide technology and support to law enforcement.   

He has been instrumental in building closer working relationships with U.S. and foreign law enforcement agencies, and to help raise the priority of both intellectual property and Cyber Crime. Mr. LaMagna has also been one of Microsoft’s principal spokespersons on counterfeiting and internet safety and has testified three times before Congress as an expert on Asian organized crime and piracy.  He has also been the subject of numerous T.V., radio and press articles and has published several articles on related topics. 

Before joining Microsoft, Mr. LaMagna served as Chief of the Special Intelligence Division, a highly classified inter-agency technology-based operation and also as Deputy Chief of Intelligence at DEA HQ. He has also held assignments as Section Chief at FBI HQ (1995-98) Drugs and Organized Crime  Branch and the White House, National Security Council as Director of International Programs (1989-90), focusing on drugs and counterterrorism.    He has also served in U.S. missions in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Bangkok and Paris, in addition to domestic enforcement and management positions in New York, Philadelphia and DEA HQ, Washington, D.C.  

He received a B.A. from Gettysburg College in Philosophy 1970 and a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies, (International Affairs) from Georgetown University in 1996.  He is a graduate of the Federal Executive Institute, Charlottesville, Va., and the Foreign Service Institute, Roslyn, Va. and Taiwan, in Chinese and French studies. He is fluent in Cantonese, Mandarin, and French.