Team
Thomas Caine
Municipal Advisor
Thomas Caine is the Founder and Chair of Caine Mitter and participates in all of the firm’s services. He has over five decades of experience in the municipal industry and housing-related public finance, including the structuring of the initial mortgage revenue bond issues for over 13 State Housing Finance Agencies. During his career, Mr. Caine has provided services to over 30 HFAs and participated on over $100 billion in bond issues. Before Caine Mitter’s predecessor firm in 1978, he worked with Paine Webber for 10 years, including three years in municipal syndicate and trading and three years as head of public finance. Mr. Caine has a long history of technological and analytical innovation in housing finance. He was the first person to use computer modeling in structuring a bond issue by a Housing Finance Agency and was the architect of the first consolidated housing cash flow software. Mr. Caine graduated from Duke University with a B.A. in Economics and attended the Wharton Graduate Division of the University of Pennsylvania. He has served on several non-profit boards, particularly in the healthcare sector.
Ansel Caine
Municipal Advisor
Ansel Caine is the President of Caine Mitter. He has 18 years of public finance experience and is active in all of the firm’s single and multifamily housing finance services. Mr. Caine has provided services to over 30 HFAs. He is an expert in the mortgage revenue bond, TBA, and derivative markets. He focuses much of his time on program optimization and best execution, and developing analytical approaches to interpreting market and programmatic activity in real-time. In 2011, Mr. Caine led the development of the firm’s TBA advisory business, which has executed over $27 billion mortgage-backed security trades on behalf of HFAs. He has worked on over $50 billion in municipal bond issues and over $6 billion in municipal derivatives transactions. Before joining Caine Mitter, Mr. Caine worked at UBS Investment Bank on the municipal derivatives desk and with the public finance quantitative group. He graduated from Duke University with a B.A. in Environmental Science and Policy.
Bronson Martin
Municipal Advisor
Bronson Martin has a broad range of expertise within affordable housing finance, specializing in quantitative services. With 20 years of experience, Mr. Martin oversees the delivery of many of the firm’s services and analyses. He is an expert in structuring single family bond issues and provides in-depth strategic planning and capital adequacy analysis for several Housing Finance Agencies. Mr. Martin performs indenture management, resource optimization, and universal cap compliance for several clients that cross call among bond issues. He previously worked for an investment advisory firm. Mr. Martin graduated Cum Laude from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Science in Applied Economics and Management.
Victor Chiang
Municipal Advisor
Victor Chiang has 19 years of housing-related public finance experience and provides a wide range of financial advisory services, including quantitative, investment, and liquidity consulting. Mr. Chiang is an expert in the financing of affordable housing, specializing in the best execution of new money and refunding bond structures, variable rate financing products, complex consolidated cash flow projections, and rating agency consultation. Mr. Chiang manages the firm’s liquidity facility procurement and investment services. Mr. Chiang graduated from Duke University with an A.B. in Economics and a B.A. in Public Policy Studies.
Patricia Ho
Municipal Advisor
Patricia Ho has 13 years of housing-related public finance experience. Ms. Ho is an expert in all aspects of single family financing for HFAs, ranging from the management of TBA programs, the structuring of mortgage-backed securities, and the execution of their sale in the secondary market to structuring mortgage revenue bonds. She manages the daily operations for all clients who utilize the TBA/Secondary Market and advises on the mortgage revenue bond programs for multiple HFAs. Ms. Ho graduated from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. in Economics, concentrating in Finance and Operations and Information Management.
Karen Marquis
Municipal Advisor
Karen Marquis has 33 years of experience providing financial and quantitative services to Housing Finance Agencies and is proficient in both single and multifamily housing. Ms. Marquis is an expert in rating agency consultation, cash flow analysis, and bond program development. Prior to working with Caine Mitter, Ms. Marquis was with its predecessor firms, CGMS, Inc. and Caine Gressel Midgley Slater, Inc. Previously, she worked for a major computer services company. Ms. Marquis graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Massachusetts, earning a Bachelor of Business Administration with a major in Finance and a minor in Economics.
Jennifer Shing
Municipal Advisor
Jennifer Shing has 10 years of housing-related public finance experience, providing general financial advisory and quantitative services. Ms. Shing performs consolidated cash flows analysis for multiple Housing Finance Agencies. In addition, she provides a wide range of indenture management services, including bond redemption, arbitrage rebate, tax law yield, and universal cap analysis. Ms. Shing manages the finance plans and deal processing for numerous HFAs. She graduated from Duke University with a B.S. in Economics, a concentration in Finance, and a Markets and Management Certificate. She received her CFA Charter in 2024. Ms. Shing has extensive multi-lingual skills.
Samuel Rees
Municipal Advisor
Sam Rees joined Caine Mitter in June 2021 with over 20 years of experience in fixed income capital markets, including 15 years at the Boston-based hedge fund Bracebridge Capital. Mr. Rees oversees data management at the firm, conducts weekly market, structuring, and best execution analysis, and advises on bond issuance pricings. Mr. Rees graduated from Colorado College in 2003 receiving a B.A. in Mathematical Economics. He received his M.S. in Investment Management from Boston University in 2009, graduating with honors. He received his CFA Charter in 2013.
Henry Capants
Municipal Advisor
Henry Capants has six years of relevant capital market experience. Mr. Capants is an expert in the management of TBA programs, the structuring of mortgage-backed securities, and the execution of their sale in the secondary market. He manages the daily operations for all clients who utilize Caine Mitter’s TBA program. Mr. Capants also advises on the single family bond programs for multiple HFAs, specializing in the structuring of mortgage revenue bonds and cash flow projections. Prior to working at Caine Mitter, Mr. Capants worked at a private equity firm. He graduated from the University of Miami with a B.B.A. in Finance and a minor in Economics.
Mike Griffin
Municipal Advisor
Mike Griffin joined Caine Mitter in 2022. Mr. Griffin has over 17 years of public sector experience. He provides a wide range of quantitative services to clients and supports the firm’s procurement and management of liquidity facilities. Mr. Griffin began his career as an elementary school teacher in the rural Mississippi Delta with Teach For America and most recently served as Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor at the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal arts and grantmaking agency. Mr. Griffin graduated Magna Cum Laude from Georgetown University with a Bachelor of Arts in Government and English.
Bennett Greenfeld
Municipal Advisor
Bennett Greenfeld joined Caine Mitter in 2022 and has over four years of relevant capital market experience. Mr. Greenfeld assists in the structuring of mortgage-backed securities and the execution of their sale in the secondary market. In addition, he provides support to a wide range of advisory services, including bond pricing, consolidated cash flows analysis, arbitrage rebate, and bond redemption. Prior to working at Caine Mitter, Mr. Greenfeld worked at a wealth management firm. He graduated Cum Laude from Virginia Tech with a B.S. in Finance and Economics.
Jack Ballou
Municipal Advisor
Jack Ballou joined Caine Mitter in June 2022. Mr. Ballou provides a range of financial advisory and quantitative services for both single family and multifamily housing. Mr. Ballou specializes in the best execution strategy for structuring new money and refunding bond issues, bond program development and management, consolidated cash flow projections, capital adequacy studies, and rating agency consultation. He graduated from Swarthmore College with a B.A. in Economics and a minor in Mathematics.
Connor Burke
Municipal Advisor
Connor Burke joined Caine Mitter in 2024 and has three years of experience in the financial sector. Mr. Burke provides support related to swaps and derivatives analysis, bond issuance pricing, and data management. Prior to working at Caine Mitter, Mr. Burke worked at Bank of America in various departments, including fintech, commercial credit risk trading, and balance sheet management. He received his CFA Charter in 2024 and graduated from Clemson University in 2021 with a B.S. in Financial Management and a minor in Accounting.
Addison Glisson
Municipal Advisor
Addison Glisson joined Caine Mitter in June 2024, bringing experience in strategic consulting for international early growth companies and real estate investment analysis. Mr. Glisson graduated Cum Laude from Florida State University with a B.S. in Finance and a minor in Business Analytics.
Dylan Gunawardene
Municipal Advisor
Dylan Gunawardene joined Caine Mitter in July 2023. Prior to working at Caine Mitter, Mr. Gunawardene worked as a medical scribe in Atlanta, GA. He graduated from Emory University with a B.A. in Economics.
Max Greenfeld
Municipal Advisor
Max Greenfeld joined Caine Mitter in July 2024. Mr. Greenfeld graduated from Washington College with a major in Economics and minors in Finance and Accounting.
James Jeffs
Municipal Advisor
James Jeffs joined Caine Mitter as an intern in June 2023 and started full time in July 2024. Mr. Jeffs graduated from The University of Chicago with a major in Statistics.
Areum Jo
Areum Jo joined Caine Mitter in June 2024. Ms. Jo graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in Hotel Administration and a concentration in Finance, Accounting, and Real Estate.
William “Ted” Caine
Ted Caine joined Caine Mitter in January 2014. Mr. Caine has over 13 years of experience as an executive staff member for several non-profit organizations. As a part-time employee, he provides administrative support services for the firm and serves as the Chief Compliance Officer. In addition to working at Caine Mitter, Mr. Caine currently serves as the Chief of Staff of the youth services non-profit, The Door. He graduated with honors from New York University with a BFA in Drama and a focus in Economics.
Ann Marie Wood
Ann Marie Wood joined Caine Mitter in January 2014. With over 35 years of experience, Ms. Wood is an accomplished lead technical engineer working on software development and reporting. She is responsible for enhancements made to software used by the firm. Ms. Wood graduated with a B.A. in Mathematics from Fordham College and went on to earn an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Oklahoma.
Stella Statham
Stella Statham joined Caine Mitter in September 2019 with 36 years of experience in all aspects of accounting, human resources, and administration. Ms. Statham manages the firm’s books and provides HR and administrative support. She attended Jersey City University.
George Caine
George Caine joined Caine Mitter in August 2020. Mr. Caine provides support for the firm’s marketing efforts, including website maintenance and drafting proposals. He holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA in Screenwriting from the American Film Institute.