
Our Team
Experienced stewards of capital.
A leadership team and research desk built on decades of experience across global markets, trading, operations, and finance.
Leadership
The leadership team.

Shawn Matthews
Chief Investment Officer
Shawn Matthews is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Hondius Capital Management, a global alternative asset manager, with oversight of and responsibility for all firm investments. He has actively invested in markets for the past 30 years, with the majority of his focus as an opportunistic trader across asset classes. Prior to founding Hondius, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. from 2009 to April 2018. Prior to his role as CEO, he held a number of senior investment roles across fixed income, including as Cantor's Head of Capital Markets and Head of Mortgage Trading. He began his career as a fixed income derivatives trader before moving to Eastern Europe to trade privatization certificates. Upon his return, he ran a number of cross-asset strategies and a fixed income broker-dealer. Shawn holds a B.S. in Finance from Fairfield University and an M.B.A. from Hofstra University.

Steve Bischoff
Chief Operating Officer & Chief Compliance Officer
Steve Bischoff is COO at Hondo Holdings LLC and a PM for Hondius Capital Management, with extensive experience managing businesses across the financial services industry. He has experience developing and managing successful teams in finance, mortgage banking, risk management, and middle market investment banking. Prior to joining Hondius, he was the CFO at AmeriCasa, Head of Asset Management and Investment Banking at NatAlliance Securities, Co-Chief Operating Officer of Debt Capital Markets at Cantor Fitzgerald, a Managing Director in charge of fixed income trading at GMAC/RFC Institutional Capital, and a Founder, Board Member, and Managing Director at Amherst Securities. He is a graduate of Bowdoin College with degrees in Math & Economics.

Craig Goos
Managing Director & Chief Operating Officer
Craig Goos is a Managing Director at Hondo Holdings and Hondius Capital Management, as well as COO of Hondo Finance and Hondius Energy. Craig is a seasoned financial services executive with over three decades of experience leading high-growth businesses and driving strategic initiatives in private asset management. With a robust background encompassing executive roles across product management, revenue operations, sales, marketing, operations and business technology solutions, Craig is a versatile leader known for his ability to catalyze change and optimize organizational performance. Throughout his career, Craig has navigated diverse landscapes, from prestigious institutional firms like UBS, Morgan Stanley, and Bear Stearns, to mid-sized private funds spanning private equity and venture capital. Additionally, he has ventured into entrepreneurship as a co-founder of a boutique broker dealer and fintech firm, gaining invaluable insights into innovative business models and emerging technologies reshaping the financial services industry. Craig is a graduate of the University of Northern Iowa and has obtained FINRA 7, 24, 63, and 99 securities licenses.

James Nash
Chief Financial Officer
James P. Nash is the Chief Financial Officer of Hondo Holdings LLC and its family of affiliated companies, including Hondius Capital Management. He is responsible for the finance and accounting operations across the group, including financial reporting, controls, audit and tax, treasury and credit facilities, and financial systems. James began his career in the insurance and banking audit practice at Ernst & Young and as a compliance examiner at the New York Stock Exchange, and subsequently held investment banking and senior financial leadership roles across private and public sector organizations. He is a Certified Public Accountant licensed in New York and holds an M.S. in Cybersecurity from Norwich University and a B.S. in Accounting from Binghamton University.
Research and trading team.
Extended investment team supporting execution, research, and capital markets.

Marios Bourtzonis
Macro Strategy Trading & Research
Marios Bourtzonis handles execution trading, investment research, and data analytics for the firm. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Economics from Trinity College, where he served as Chief Investment Officer of the Trinity College Student Investment Fund. He joined Hondius Capital after graduating and has worked across back office, middle office, and investment research.

Ethan King-Carey
Vice President, Capital Markets and Trading
Ethan King-Carey is Vice President, Capital Markets and Trading at Hondius Capital Management. He brings more than a decade of experience in trading, derivatives, structuring, and risk management across rates, equities, and structured products, including co-managing an interest-rate volatility desk with multi-book P&L responsibility and private-wealth exposure. At Hondius, he works across trade idea generation, structuring, and execution within the fund's multi-asset investment mandate. He holds a B.S. in Finance from the University of Pittsburgh.

Shawn Matthews Jr.
Equity Capital Markets
Shawn Matthews Jr. focuses on broader equity capital markets activity for the firm, with an emphasis on under-followed commodity stories across the broader commodities landscape, including nuclear. He holds a B.S. in Entrepreneurship and Finance from Babson College and previously interned at Cohen & Co Asset Management, focusing on event-driven trading and SPAC merger arbitrage.
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