Kraus serves as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer since December 2008
Served as an executive vice president, head of global strategy and member of the Management Committee of Merrill Lynch & Company, Inc. before joining AllianceBernstein
Previously spent 22 years with Goldman Sachs Group Inc., where he served as co-head of the Investment Management Division and a member of the Management Committee, as well as head of firm wide strategy and chairman of the Strategy Committee
Kraus also served as co-head of the Financial Institutions Group at Goldman. He was named a partner at Goldman in 1994 and managing director in 1996
Received a BA from Trinity College and an MBA from New York University