Kraig Paulsen
Kraig Paulsen (’87 management) was appointed director of the Iowa Department of Management on October 1, 2021, by Governor Kim Reynolds. He also served as the director of the Department of Revenue from January 4, 2016-March 28, 2023.
Prior to joining Governor Kim Reynolds’ cabinet, he was director of both supply chain and business analytics initiatives at the Ivy College of Business. He also is a past commissioner at the Iowa Department of Transportation and served in the Iowa legislature for 14 years and as Speaker of the House for five of those years.
Paulsen received his MBA from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and a juris doctor from the University of Iowa.
He honorably served in the United States Air Force where among other duties he served as a missile combat crew commander, an operations group senior weapon system instructor, a flight commander, and a squadron director of operations in a training squadron.
Additionally, Paulsen has worked as a production supervisor in a manufacturing plant, in the private practice of law, and as corporate counsel at CRST International in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.