Chris Traub is Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of the SES Group. Based in Taipei, Chris travels regularly throughout the SES Group's 8 offices and worldwide.

Over the past 19 years, Mr Traub has led and supported hundreds of senior level search engagements, across a broad range of industries. He is particularly well known in Asia for his search work in technology, and travels extensively in North America, Europe, Israel and Asia, participating in more than a dozen leading global CEO forums annually. Mr Traub co-leads the Technology, Clean Technology, and Private Equity Practice Groups, as well as represents the SES Group on the Alliance Operating Committee with our strategic partners in the US and Europe. The Alliance's Clean Technology Practice is the first of its kind in the search industry. In particular, Mr Traub is keen on helping to drive Clean Technology adoption in China and India.

Mr Traub began his executive search career in 1988 when he established the first retained executive search firm in Taipei, that later joined Ward Howell International, a leading global executive search firm in 1992. In 1998, with the listing of Ward Howell in the US, the Asian partner companies of Ward Howell merged and established SES, the Strategic Executive Search Group. During his Ward Howell tenure, Mr Traub established the first Asia Pacific Technology search practice in 1992, encompassing 13 offices from Tokyo through Sydney.

Born in the US and educated in the US, the Philippines, and Taiwan, Mr Traub has lived in Greater China continuously since 1986. He graduated from Oberlin College with a Bachelor's degree in East Asian Studies & Cultural Anthropology. Mr Traub is fully bicultural and bilingual in English and Mandarin. He is a regular conference speaker and published author, as well as a keen skier, diver, musician, and yoga practitioner.