Bruce Heyman

Bruce Heyman
United States Ambassador to Canada
In office April 8, 2014 – January 20, 2017
President	Barack Obama
Deputy	Elizabeth Moore Aubin
Preceded by	David Jacobson
Succeeded by	TBD
Personal details
Born	1958 (age 58–59) Elmira, New York, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	Vicki Heyman (m. 1980)
Alma mater	Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management
Religion	Reform Judaism

Bruce Alan Heyman (born 1958) is an American businessman and the former United States Ambassador to Canada. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on March 12, 2014. He presented his credentials to the Governor General of Canada, and began his duties in Ottawa, on April 8, 2014. His term ended on January 20, 2017.

Heyman was born in Elmira, New York to a Jewish family and raised in Dayton, Ohio. Heyman graduated from the Miami Valley School, and received a B.A. (1979) and an M.B.A. (1980) from Vanderbilt University. His grandfather, Sam Malamud, immigrated from Lithuania in 1913. Being unable to read and write, he copied the name of the man immediately before him in the registry book and became Sam Heyman.

In 1977 and 1978, Heyman interned at the U.S. House of Representatives for Congressman Charles Whalen of Ohio. In the summer of 1979, Heyman was a researcher for the Small Business Committee and Restraint of Trade Subcommittee.

In 1980, Heyman worked as a Chicago-based investment banker for Goldman Sachs. From 1985 to 1999, Heyman served as Vice President of Goldman Sachs.

From 1999 to 2014, he served as managing director of private wealth management at Goldman Sachs.

Prior to becoming Ambassador, Heyman served as a board member for the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and the Northwestern Memorial Hospital Foundation. He also served as an advisor to the Fix the Debt CEO Council of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He has been a member of The Economic Club of Chicago, The Executives' Club of Chicago, and the Facing History and Ourselves Chicago Advisory Board.

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