William Callanan is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Syzygy Investment Advisory. He has built the award-winning alternative asset manager and advisory firm on the foundations of an investment management career spanning over 20 years, specialising in identification and monetization of structural changes in long-term macro-economic trends.
Prior to establishing Syzygy Investment Advisory, William Callanan was a Partner and Senior Managing Director at Key Square Capital Management, a New York and London-based global macroeconomic investment fund. Before that, he was the Senior Strategist for the Chief Investment Officer (CIO) portfolios and a Global Macroeconomic Portfolio Manager at Soros Fund Management, a $35B private investment firm based in the US.
Preceding Soros, William Callanan held the position of Chief Investment Officer (CIO) at Fortress Commodities Fund, a $1.5 billion hedge fund, while also serving on the Investment & Management Committees of Fortress Investment Group, a $65b billion asset manager based in the US. Before Fortress Commodities Fund, he was a Partner and Chief Investment Officer of the Rubicon Equity and Commodity Fund, a $1.1 billion commodity-focused investment fund. Earlier in his career William Callanan worked with Stanley Druckenmiller as a Principal and Managing Director of Duquesne Capital Management, where he concentrated on commodities and cyclical equity investments across the globe.
In addition to his long-standing career in finance and capital markets, William Callanan is a Benefactor of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and an elected member of the Oxford Energy Policy Club – a debating forum on global energy issues. He is also a founding partner of Oxford Institute’s China Energy Program and a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a world-leading, London based policy research organization focused on global security, political risk assessment and military conflict.
William Callanan holds a B.S. in International Finance and Monetary Economics from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, with a concentration in Asian Studies.
About Syzygy Investment Advisory
Established in 2019, Syzygy Investment Advisory is an award-winning alternative asset management and advisory firm focused on global macroeconomic thematic alpha generation for long-term pools of investment capital, including sovereign wealth funds, family offices, pensions, and endowments. The firm primarily focuses on China’s ramifications on the macro investment matrix, industrial cyclical companies and international commodities markets. Syzygy Investment Advisory provides its clients with outsourcing services across three key pillars: Market Intelligence and Analysis, Investment Advisory and Structuring Solutions.
