Goldman Loses Chief Saleswoman at Asset Manager to Advent (1)

Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s Heather Miner, who was tapped earlier this year to help run a newly created sales effort across the company’s $1.7 trillion asset-management unit, is leaving the firm.

Miner will join buyout shop Advent International Corp. as chief operating officer, according to people with knowledge of the matter. In January, Goldman named Miner and Chris Kojima to lead the new sales effort for its alternative-investments and public-market strategies.

Heather Miner

Source: Goldman Sachs

In putting Miner in charge of that push, Goldman executives said it was a revenue-producing job that could position her for more-senior roles. She previously ran ...