Shawn Matthews is an American businessman in the

financial services industry Finance is the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets. It is related to, but not synonymous with economics, the study of production, distribution, and consumption of money, assets, goods and services (the discipline of finan ...

. He is currently the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Hondius Capital Management, a global asset manager, and the former CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald & Co.

Career

From 2009 to 2018, Matthews served as the CEO and President of Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., with oversight of over 100 Cantor affiliated entities, running the spectrum of financial services and fintech. During his tenure as CEO, he built Cantor's risk taking businesses, shepherded the firm through the crisis and subsequently guided it through an extended period of significant growth. He was instrumental in growing Cantor into 1 of only 22 Primary Government bond traders of the U.S. Treasury. Cantor Fitzgerald and its affiliates/subsidiaries have grown exponentially since 2009. He is a frequent guest on CNBC, Fox Business and Bloomberg News and is quoted as a reliable source on financial markets by major financial news outlets. Prior to being appointed CEO in 2009, he served in senior management roles, including Head of Capital Markets and Head of Mortgage Trading. Matthews started at Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. in 2005. His career began at Wertheim Schroeder & Co. in 1990. Since that time, Matthews was the managing member of West Side Capital, a

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, as well as the managing partner of Alchemist Capital Management, a

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. In April 2018, Matthews departed Cantor to start his own hedge fund, Hondius Capital. Anshu Jain, formerly of Deutsche Bank, succeeded him as President at Cantor Fitzgerald. Matthews was a member of the board of directors of Autism Speaks and formerly the

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Education

Matthews received his Bachelor of Science in Finance from the

Fairfield University Dolan School of Business Fairfield University is a private Jesuit university in Fairfield, Connecticut. It was founded by the Jesuits in 1942. In 2017, the university had about 4,100 full-time undergraduate students and 1,100 graduate students, including full-tim ...

and MBA from

Hofstra University Hofstra University is a private university in Hempstead, New York. It is Long Island's largest private university. Hofstra originated in 1935 as an extension of New York University (NYU) under the name Nassau College – Hofstra Memorial of Ne ...

References

External links

Cantor Fitzgerald profile

Hondius Capital
{{DEFAULTSORT:Matthews, Shawn American chief executives of financial services companies Living people Fairfield University Dolan School of Business alumni Hofstra University alumni Chief investment officers 1967 births Frank G. Zarb School of Business alumni