‘I was honored to have had the opportunity to serve my country,’ Cloud Software Group CEO Tom Krause said in an email to employees.
Tom Krause, CEO of Citrix parent company Cloud Software Group, has ended his tenure as a special government employee at the U.S. Department of Treasury, where he helped Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cost-cutting organization previously championed by Elon Musk.
CRN has learned that Krause told CSG employees in an all-hands meeting June 3 that he would leave the Treasury effective June 6. He also sent an email to all CSG employees after the meeting.
“I was honored to have had the opportunity to serve my country,” Krause said in the email, reviewed by CRN. “At Cloud Software Group, we haven’t skipped a beat. I’m immensely proud of what we have accomplished in 2025 already, driving sustainable profitable growth, product innovation, and scalable partnerships. I am excited and energized for what lies ahead and want to thank each of you for your hard work and commitment.”
A Citrix spokesperson confirmed the authenticity of the email but declined to provide further comment.
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Citrix And DOGE
A Citrix solution provider who asked not to be identified so that he could speak candidly said that the vendor’s day-to-day operations continued unimpeded while Krause pursued his second job.
“You almost didn’t notice [the impact],” the solution provider said.
The Citrix partner ecosystem has been at work moving customers to enterprise agreements–which comes with the opportunity for more sales–and making adjustments to fit Citrix’s recently announced deal that made Arrow the sole Citrix distributor for all channel partners in North America and Europe.
The partner said credit is due to Citrix Co-Presidents Hector Lima and Sridhar Mullapudi and channel chief Ethan Fitzsimons and their teams for ushering partners through the changes and steering the vendor through the everyday.
“They have really carried the flag,” the solution provider said.
With Krause back, the partner is curious to see if more efforts around cross-selling the Citrix portfolio emerge, with the partner interested in new opportunities from Citrix’s purchase of Unicon.
While Krause split his time between Citrix parent Cloud Software Group and the federal government, the vendor navigated the 2503 release of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVAD) with an optional component from its recently acquired uberAgent division and teamed up with Nutanix to fully support multi-cluster environments hosted on the Prism Central solution on Nutanix Cloud Platform, among other innovations launched for the platform.
Krause At The Treasury
Krause performed the duties of a fiscal assistant secretary for the U.S. Department of Treasury as a special government employee (SGE) while also continuing to serve as CSG CEO full time. The SGE status meant Krause could only work for the government for 130 days during a 365-day period. Krause’s Treasury work focused in part on its payment systems.
Musk has left DOGE as well.
While working in the U.S. government, Krause became a player in a battle over data access by various people associated with the DOGE group. In May, a federal judge allowed the entire DOGE team at the Treasury–including Krause–access to the agency’s payment and data systems.
