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Our Mission

At Hondo Finance, our mission is to empower seasoned real estate investors and developers with smart, tailored lending solutions. We navigate the complexities of the market alongside you, providing swift, flexible, and transparent financing designed to maximize your investment potential.

Our Vision

We envision a real estate lending landscape where data-driven insights and advanced technology unlock faster, smarter deals for investors. Hondo Finance aims to be the go-to partner for sophisticated real estate capital, helping build stronger portfolios and more resilient communities.

Why Choose Hondo Finance?

Where precision meets opportunity in real estate financing.

Trust Hondo Finance to be your partner in success, and let us help you turn your real estate ambitions into reality.

Speed and Certainty

Our streamlined process and advanced technology allow us to deliver loan approvals and funds in as little as 5-7 business days, ensuring you never miss out on a valuable investment opportunity.

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Direct Lender Advantage

Unlike intermediaries or brokers, we are direct lenders. This means no middlemen, no white labeling – just straightforward, transparent financing solutions from a team that understands your needs.

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Tailored Solutions

We offer customized lending programs designed to align with your specific business goals and investment strategies. Whether you’re a fix-and-flip investor or a seasoned developer, our solutions are crafted to fit your unique requirements.

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Transparency

At Hondo Finance, we believe in clear and honest communication throughout the lending process. Our commitment to transparency means you’ll always know where you stand and can make informed decisions.

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Our Team

Our leadership team brings together decades of experience across global capital markets, private asset management, credit investing, and financial platform development. With backgrounds spanning institutional firms, entrepreneurial ventures, and alternative asset management, the team combines disciplined investment expertise with operational rigor and a track record of building and scaling high-performing organizations. Together, they drive the firm’s strategic vision, investment oversight, and execution.

Peter Littell

Managing Director

Peter Littell is a senior finance and lending executive with nearly two decades of experience spanning private credit, business-purpose lending, capital markets, and institutional sales. He has led and scaled business development and origination teams at firms including Quanta Finance, Sundae, and Genesis Capital, where his teams generated close to a billion dollars in annual loan volume and a meaningful share of firmwide originations. Peter brings a data-driven approach to sales strategy, having built analytics infrastructure to guide sponsor targeting, geographic expansion, and performance management. Earlier in his career, he was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs, where he managed and grew institutional client relationships. Peter combines hands-on leadership, deep credit market knowledge, and a strong track record of building high-performing teams in fast-growing financial platforms. Peter has a B.S. In Marketing from Providence College

Craig Goos

Managing Director

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 he has obtained FINRA 7, 24, 63 and 99 securities licenses.

Shawn Matthews

Founder and Chief Investment Officer

Shawn Matthews is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Hondius Capital Management, a global alternative asset manager. In this role, Shawn has 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. Mr. Matthews 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

Steve Bischoff is COO at Hondo Holdings LLC, and a PM for Hondius Capital management. Mr. Bischoff has 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, Mr. Bischoff 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, Managing Director at Amherst Securities. Mr. Bischoff is a graduate of Bowdoin College with degrees in Math & Economics.

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85 Washington St Unit 1F, South Norwalk, CT 06854
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