Tom Krause is an American business executive serving as the Fiscal Assistant Secretary of the Treasury since 2025.
[3] In July 2022, Krause resigned from Broadcom and became chief executive officer of the Cloud Software Group, which owns Citrix, Tibco, Spotfire, and Jaspersoft.
[2] He was assigned as a special government employee to review the federal payment system and was granted limited access as a liaison between the Treasury and DOGE.
[6][7] On February 7, 2025, he was appointed as the Fiscal Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, succeeding Matthew Garber who had been acting in the role since David Lebryk's resignation.
[6] Krause continued to work at Cloud Software Group despite his employment by DOGE, this has been cited as a potential conflict of interest.