William Royan

William Royan is the Managing Partner of GPI and Chair of the Investment Committee. Previously, he was a member of the Global Management Committee and CIO at BTG Pactual, a global financial services firm. Prior to BTG Pactual, Bill was head of the non-control equity investing group at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP), running a US$10+ billion AUM portfolio, and was also responsible for OTPP’s corporate governance activities. He joined Ontario Teachers’ from Lehman Brothers in New York, where he held senior roles in its mergers group and its equity strategies unit, Lehman’s principal investing arm. Previously, he worked in mergers and acquisitions at J.P. Morgan in New York, and RBC Dominion Securities in Toronto. He has been a director of numerous public and private companies including the TMX Group, where he chaired its governance committee, and of BTG Pactual. Bill holds an Honours MBA from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Calgary.