Stephen Trauber

Stephen Trauber is a Managing Director and Chairman and Global Head of Energy and Clean Technology at Moelis & Company. With over 35 years of investment banking experience, he has advised on more than $800 billion of energy transactions, including many of the energy sector's most significant and transformative M&A and financing transactions. In addition to assembling more than 300 oil and natural gas transactions, he has also served as lead financier for many of the industry's IPOs and equity and debt capital markets deals.

In 2010, The Wall Street Journal called Trauber "one of the best-connected energy bankers in Houston." His work has involved advising on transactions with industry heavyweights including BP, Halliburton, Kinder Morgan, Nabors, Occidental Petroleum, Schlumberger, Shell, and Weatherford International.

Career History

• Moelis & Company: Managing Director, Chairman and Global Head of Energy and Clean Technology (2024-present)
• Citigroup: Vice Chairman and Global Co-Head of Natural Resources and Clean Energy Transition (responsible for creating and building the firm's Clean Energy Transition business)
• UBS Investment Bank: Vice Chairman and Global Head of Energy
• Morgan Stanley: Managed Energy Group in Houston
• Credit Suisse: Early career in M&A group

Trauber holds a B.A. in Economics and Managerial Studies from Rice University and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where he was an Austin Scholar. He currently serves on several corporate Boards of Directors, including Global Geophysical Services, Geophysical Technology Inc., Nabors Energy Transition Corp II (where he serves as Audit Chair), NXTClean Fuels, New Asean Energy, and Odyssey Trust Company, and also serves as an Advisory Director for Aon, Element Resources, and Last Energy.

What Stephen Trauber could bring to Chairman and Global Head of Energy and Clean Technology at Moelis & Company: Trauber brings unparalleled deal-making expertise in energy M&A, refined relationships with major energy corporations cultivated over 35+ years, and specific expertise in building clean energy transition businesses—demonstrated through his creation of Citi's Clean Energy Transition platform. His track record of navigating the energy sector through major transformational periods positions him to guide Moelis' energy franchise during ongoing global energy transition and consolidation.