Matthew Traub

Matthew Traub serves as president and chief operating officer at DKC. In addition to being a principal, a member of the executive team and supervising several of DKC’s divisions, he is a key player in the firm’s technology, media business and crisis management areas. Traub has built and overseen DKC’s work with top tech and media brands. He is a primary liaison with some of the tech industry’s most notable venture capital firms and has worked with some of the nation’s top CEOs, political leaders and personalities. He has supervised the strategic communications campaigns around acquisitions in media, entertainment and technology and an array of complex cases involving civil and criminal litigation.

Traub joined DKC after nearly a decade on Capitol Hill working for three different members of Congress. As chief of staff and press secretary to Rep. Nita Lowey, a New York Democrat, Traub supervised a staff of 20 people in three offices and served as Lowey’s spokesman and liaison to the New York and national media. Prior to joining Lowey’s staff, Traub worked for Reps. Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Thomas Downey (D-NY).

Traub received a Bachelor of Arts in political science and journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.