Education
Harvard Business School. Harvard University; University of California, Berkeley.
Harvard Business School. Harvard University; University of California, Berkeley.
Born in Los Altos, California, Traugott majored in business at Berkeley University in California. He then worked as an investment banker before attending Harvard Business School. Traugott"s career soon took off after business school when he landed a creative executive job at Fox Studios.
He then joined Brillstein-Grey Entertainment as vice president of television in 1996 and was promoted to President when Brad Grey left to run Paramount in 2005.
He has developed several television pilots including Real Time with Bill Maher, According to Jim, and The Showbiz Show with David Spade. He served as executive producer of Samantha Who? starring Christina Applegate, and for the Sarah Michelle Gellar series Ringer.
Traugott also executive-produced Gellar"s unsold Home Box Office pilot The Wonderful Maladys. He is now an independent producer with a deal on the National Broadcasting Company lot.