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Mr. LaPuma is a Managing Director and Director of the Investment Department - International. He also serves as President of W. P. Carey International and President of Corporate Property Associates 14 Incorporated (CPA®:14), an income generating real estate fund managed by W. P. Carey.
Mr. LaPuma joined W. P. Carey as an Assistant to the Chairman in July 1994, where he helped establish the firm's Institutional Department. He joined the firm's Investment Department in 1995.
Prior to joining W. P. Carey, Mr. LaPuma was a consultant with the Sol C. Snider Entrepreneurial Center, where he advised small business owners on ways to make their companies more profitable through the implementation of appropriate financial and management strategies. Mr. LaPuma also founded his own consulting firm, which specialized in providing strategy consultation services to industrial companies.
He serves as a Trustee of the Rensselaerville Institute and of the W. P. Carey Foundation, as a governor of the Delta Phi Fraternity ("St. Elmo"), and as a Director of W. P. Carey & Co. International LLC. Mr. LaPuma earned two degrees from the University of Pennsylvania in 1994, both awarded magna cum laude, one in Finance from its Wharton School, the other in Global Economic Strategies from its College of Arts and Sciences. | 