The Gigolo Class.
” I don’t always marry rich women, but when I do, I hide their boats in Rhode Island, to avoid the Massachusetts excise tax on it”
John F’n Kerry
It did not take long for Heidi Cruz to find her footing. She soon joined Goldman Sachs, where she was early to arrive each day and among the last to leave, impressing her boss at the time, Peter Coneway, who helped recruit her to the firm in 2005 and later recommended her to lead the office.
Coneway recalled Heidi Cruz’s thriving in a region where the money management industry was largely a men’s club.
As she built a network of clients, she found politics to be an icebreaker and her husband a willing partner at dinners with prospective investors. She would call on him to “help make the ask,” she said on a panel at Claremont McKenna in 2011. (Heidi Cruz told the New York Times, though, that she believed in a “separation of church and state” between business and politics and did not ask her clients to donate to the campaigns.)
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About a week after Texans elected Ted Cruz to the Senate in 2012, Goldman announced Heidi Cruz’s elevation to its ranks of managing directors — a well-deserved promotion, colleagues said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/21/politics/campaigns/21BBOX-PIONEERS.html
Bush’s Pioneers
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Published: July 21, 2003
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Peter R. Coneway, Houston; Goldman Sachs & Co.
September 17, 2006
DIPLOMACY, someone said, is the fine art of allowing others to do things your way. Few progressions through life are as distinguished as that of Houstonian Peter R. Coneway, whom President Bush as appointed U.S. ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
Coneway, who founded the Houston office of Goldman, Sachs in 1975, leaves for Switzerland this week and soon will present his diplomatic credentials to the leaders of the host countries. He carries with him a long list of personal credentials earned over a lifetime of meritorious service that has made Houston a more livable city.
Like many appointees, Coneway raised campaign funds and garnered political support for the president who appointed him. What sets Coneway apart from some appointees is that he is not a newcomer to public service.