Background
Heyman was born to a Jewish family and raised in Dayton, Ohio.
Heyman was born to a Jewish family and raised in Dayton, Ohio.
He received a Bachelor of Arts (1979) and an Master of Business Administration (1980) from Vanderbilt University.
He was confirmed by the United States. 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. 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 1980, he worked as a Chicago-based investment banker for Goldman Sachs.
From 1999 to 2014, he served as managing director of private wealth management at Goldman Sachs.