Heyman, Bruce Alan, 1958-

<p>The Wilson Center’s Canada Institute is pleased to announce the appointment of the Honorable Bruce Heyman, former U.S. Ambassador to Canada, as the new co-chair of the Wilson Center’s Canada Institute Advisory Board.</p>

<p>Says Canada Institute Director Laura Dawson: “Ambassador Heyman brings an extraordinary commitment to the Canada – U.S. relationship. Together with his wife, Vicki, they have helped to strengthen our common bond during challenging times. His leadership as the new Canada Institute Advisory Board co-chair will help advance the Institute as the bilateral relationship continues to evolve.”</p>

<p>Ambassador (ret.) Heyman is the co-founder of Uncharted LLC, an organization that convenes and connects diverse groups of Americans and Canadians for impact. He is also the co-author of The Art of Diplomacy, which highlights the extraordinary country of Canada and takes an in-depth look at why diplomacy matters now more than ever.</p>

<p>Prior to his work with Uncharted LLC, Heyman served as the United States Ambassador to Canada under President Barack Obama from 2014 until 2017.</p>

<p>Heyman will join co-chairs Hugh MacKinnon, chairman and chief executive officer at the law firm Bennett Jones, and Gary Doer, former Canadian Ambassador to the United States.</p>

<p>Recognized as the #1 think-tank in regional studies, the Wilson Center is a nonpartisan public policy forum based in Washington, D.C. that is dedicated to advancing dialogue and the free flow of ideas on emerging policy issues. The Canada Institute at the Wilson Center is currently the only think-tank dedicated to exploring and strengthening the Canada – U.S. relationship.</p>

<p>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 tenure ended on January 20, 2017.</p>

<p>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 1912. He followed in the footsteps of his older brother Ben, and assumed the surname of his cousin, Henry Heyman.</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>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.</p>

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

<p>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.</p>

<p>On September 19, 2013, President Barack Obama nominated Heyman to be the U.S. Ambassador to Canada. Heyman was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on March 12, 2014.</p>

<p>As the U.S. Ambassador to Canada, Heyman became a member of the Fulbright Canada Board of Directors.</p>

<p>In 2014 and 2016, Heyman was named one of the Top 50 Most Powerful Business People by Canadian Business.</p>

<p>In January 2017, he announced that he was stepping down as the U.S. Ambassador to Canada.</p>

<p>Heyman and his wife have been prominent donors to President Obama since 2007 and have been some of his top fundraisers. In 2012, both he and his wife served on Obama's National Finance Committee tasked with raising funds for Obama's re-election campaign.</p>

<p>He is married to his wife and fellow Vanderbilt classmate Vicki Simons who is also Jewish. The two married on June 15, 1980 in Ashland, Kentucky. They have three children: David, Liza, and Caroline, as well as three grandchildren.</p>

<p>President Barack Obama has nominated Bruce A. Heyman, a partner in the Chicago office of Wall Street investment bank Goldman Sachs, to be the next U.S. ambassador to Canada. The September 19 announcement ended months of speculation that Heyman, whose name first surfaced in April, had lost interest in the job, been disqualified by his investments, or had been derailed by pipeline politics. Instead, Heyman completed diplomatic “charm school” this summer, and if confirmed by the Senate would succeed fellow bundler David Jacobson, who departed Ottawa at the end of his four-year term in July, leaving the embassy under the care of Chargé d’Affaires Richard Sanders.</p>

<p>Although Heyman has been working with wealthy Canadian clients of Goldman since 2001, his qualifications for nomination were not damaged by the fact that he has been a “mega-bundler” for both of Obama’s presidential runs, helping to raise millions of dollars and serving on Obama’s National Finance Committee in 2012. A longtime Democrat in an industry dominated by Republicans, Heyman has donated more than $180,000 to political causes, most of it to Democratic candidates and organizations, including $96,000 to the Democratic National Committee. He has also donated more than $36,000 to the Goldman Sachs PAC.</p>

<p>Born circa 1958, Heyman grew up in Dayton, Ohio, where he shoveled snow and mowed lawns as a boy. He earned a B.A. in Business Administration at Vanderbilt University in 1979 and an MBA there in 1980. During his high school years, Heyman worked as a part-time salesman at Rike's Department Store in Kettering, Ohio, and General Surplus in Dayton, and, as a college student, as a sandwich-maker at Sub Station in Nashville. In the summer of 1979, he worked as a summer researcher for the antitrust and restraint of trade subcommittee of the House of Representatives.</p>

<p>In 1980, Heyman began his long association with the investment banking firm of Goldman Sachs, working as an associate from 1980 to 1985, and as a vice president from 1985 to 1999. As a VP, Heyman also worked as associate regional manager of Goldman’s Chicago private client group from 1997 to 1999. From 1999 to 2000, he was co-head of recruiting for Goldman’s newly created investment management division, leaving that job in 2001 to become regional manager of the Midwest private wealth management group, which covers 13 states and half of Canada. In 2004, he was made a partner of Goldman Sachs, where he still worked when nominated for the ambassadorship.</p>

<p>Bruce Heyman and his wife, Vicki Heyman, live in Chicago. Their son, David, works for JPMorgan Chase.</p>