Seth Krauss
Seth Krauss is an Executive Vice President and the General Counsel of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (“Take-Two”), a leading world-wide developer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment software, hardware and accessories, which is publicly traded on the NASDAQ under the symbol TTWO. Seth joined the Company in March 2007. Take-Two is globally headquartered in New York City with its international operations headquartered in Windsor, United Kingdom and has roughly 2,750 employees located around the world. Take-Two has more than 15 wholly-owned development studios located in North America, Eastern and Western Europe and the Asia Pacific region as well as sales, marketing and QA offices located in more ten countries around the globe. Seth is responsible for legal affairs and risk management, governmental and self-regulatory compliance, and internal audit, managing a team 17 lawyers and approximately 25 people. Mr. Krauss is a member of the executive management team for the company.
Prior to joining Take-Two, Seth served in the Legal and Compliance Division of Morgan Stanley, a global financial services company, first as Vice President and Counsel and then as Executive Director and Counsel from March 2004 to March 2007, where most recently he had been responsible for coordinating all significant regulatory and law enforcement matters for Morgan Stanley in the United States and served as one of the firm’s senior liaisons to its U.S.-based financial regulators and law enforcement agencies. From 1995 until joining Morgan Stanley in March 2004, Mr. Krauss served first as an Assistant District Attorney and then as a Senior Investigative Counsel in the New York County District Attorney’s Office, where his work included leading complex, long-term investigations into violations of securities, banking, accounting, taxation and related laws and regulations, working closely with the SEC, FINRA (formerly the NASD and NYSE Regulation, Inc.), as well as numerous state, federal and international financial regulators and law enforcement agencies. His work included leading that office’s investigation into the role of financial institutions in Enron’s collapse. From 1992 until 1995, Seth served as a Trustee on the Board of Trustees of Duke University. While on the Board, Seth served on the Business and Finance Committee and Student Affairs Committee.
Mr. Krauss graduated Washington University, School of Law in 1995. Prior to that, Seth graduated with honors from Duke University in 1992, where he received his BA in history and political science.
