An accomplished technology leader, Ambassador Traina also previously served as the U.S. ambassador to Austria and is credited with helping usher in an era of “new closeness” between the two countries. Before his tenure at the United States Department of State, he established himself as a successful tech entrepreneur and as a trustee of institutions such as the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, the Haas School of Business, and the Princeton University Art Museum. He has founded and co-founded five successful technology companies, which were sold to acquirers such as Microsoft, Mastercard, and Intuit. He is currently Chief Business Officer at Tools for Humanity (TFH). He studied International Relations and Politics as a graduate student at Oxford and as an undergraduate student at Princeton. He holds an MBA from Berkeley.