Paul Nehlen

Paul Nehlen

Former challenger to Speaker Ryan

Paul Nehlen is a successful manufacturing executive who engineers corporate and factory turnarounds and works to repatriate manufacturing facilities to the United States. Nehlen began his career in factory floor maintenance and has worked his way up to ownership positions in several Fortune 500 and Fortune 200 companies. Nehlen’s recent run for the nomination in Wisconsin’s First Congressional District resulted in Speaker Ryan’s flip-flopping and publicly rescinding his former support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Paul lives in Delavan, Wisconsin, with his wife Gabriela.