Businesswoman Heidi Suzanne Cruz is from the United States. Since 2012, she has served as a managing director at Goldman Sachs.
Cruz finished her postsecondary education at Harvard Business School, Université libre de Bruxelles, and Claremont McKenna College.
She served as George W. Bush’s 2000 presidential Campaign’s economic policy advisor and then held several posts in the Bush Administration, including counselor to the Treasury Department and National Security Council.
She started working at Goldman Sachs as a private wealth manager in 2005.
She married future senator Ted Cruz in 2001, and the couple has two daughters. She took a leave of absence to serve as his primary fundraiser and surrogate during his 2016 presidential campaign.
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Peter Christian Nelson, a dentist, and Suzanne Jane, a dental hygienist, welcomed Heidi Suzanne Nelson into the world on August 7, 1972, in San Luis Obispo, California. Nelson was brought up as an Adventist.
Olavi Johannes Rouhe, her maternal grandpa, was a native of Savonlinna, Finland. Nelson spent most of her childhood living with her family in Kenya, Nigeria, and Asia.
They served as missionaries, and both of her parents worked in the dental field.
As a young girl, Nelson was passionate about business and started selling homemade bread with her brother, Scott.
