Brian K. Krolicki was elected as Nevada’s Lieutenant Governor in November 2006.  As Lieutenant Governor, Brian is President of the State Senate, Chairman of the Commission on Economic Development, Chairman of the Commission on Tourism, and serves as a member of the State Board of Transportation.

Prior to being elected Lieutenant Governor, Brian served two terms as Nevada’s State Treasurer.  Among his many accomplishments, Brian considers his efforts to make a college education more affordable for Nevada’s families a cornerstone of his administration.  He assisted in the creation of the State Treasurer’s College Savings Plan and Nevada’s Prepaid College Tuition Program and was responsible for the “roll-out” of the Millennium Scholarship in Nevada.  During his tenure, Brian secured upgrades to the State’s credit ratings, saving Nevada taxpayers millions of dollars in interest costs.  All three rating agencies now rate Nevada only one notch below the highest rating of AAA, which is held by just a handful of states.  Brian consistently outperformed the strict investment performance benchmarks and during his tenure Nevada was the first state treasury in the country to receive the Certificate of Excellence in Investment Policy awarded by the Association of Public Treasurers of the United States and Canada.  Brian also implemented many innovative programs and first-of-their-kind financial transactions that safely generated tens of millions of dollars in windfall earnings for the State.

On the national level, in 2002, Brian was unanimously elected by his peers to serve as president of the National Association of State Treasurers (NAST), which collectively represents over $1 trillion in assets.  As president, he founded the NAST Committee on Corporate Governance and served as chairman of the NAST Foundation, which promotes financial literacy and education throughout the nation.  He has worked hard to promote financial literacy in Nevada by introducing the Nevada Women’s Money Conference, a free event designed to provide the necessary tools and information to become financially educated.  In 2003, Brian was appointed by President George W. Bush’s administration to serve as a member of the United States Intergovernmental Policy Advisory Committee on Trade.  In May 2004, Brian was selected by his state treasurer colleagues to receive the Unruh Award, given to the nation’s most outstanding state treasurer.  Most recently, in December 2004, Brian was again honored by his national peers in both the private and public sectors with the highly regarded Gritz Award for Excellence in Public Finance in recognition of his leadership and innovation in the area of public debt management.

Prior to entering public service, Brian’s private sector experience included working for Banker’s Trust Company in New York City and for Smith Barney in San Francisco, California and Manama, Bahrain – the Persian Gulf.  He is a graduate of Stanford University.  Brian and his wife, Kelly, have three young daughters.