Thomas S. Riebs

Thomas founded Traksjon in 2024 to do the work he had spent a career watching go undone: not advising European companies on the United States, but standing in the room with them while they built a position here.

He is American, raised in Denmark, and bicultural from childhood. That is not a biographical detail. It is the reason he can hear what a Danish board actually means when it says a plan is ambitious, and translate it for an American buyer who hears something else entirely.

He holds a B.A. in European Studies and History and a J.D. with a business law specialization, both from UCLA, and is admitted to practice in California. Before Traksjon he was a vice president in the International Clientèle department at Bank of the West, part of BNP Paribas, working with companies and families moving capital and operations across the Atlantic.

He works in Danish and English, and holds conversations in French, German, Norwegian, Spanish and Swedish.

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