Meet Our Team

Dexter P. Lyons

Portfolio Manager

Dexter earned his business degree from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 1991. As the sole owner and co-founder of Horizon Capital Management (HCM), he has served as Senior Portfolio Manager since the firm’s launch in 1990.

Early in his career, Dexter successfully executed a tactical junk-bond timing strategy for Separately Managed Accounts (SMAs), which he managed through 2004. He then managed the HCM Freedom Fund from 2004 to 2014, focusing on maximizing gains while avoiding life-changing losses.

In 2014, he launched the Issachar Fund as an expression of his faith and commitment to biblical stewardship. The fund earned a prestigious 5-star rating in 2019 for effectively sidestepping a significant bear-market decline. Dexter’s ethical leadership was further recognized when he received the Integrity Award from the National Association of Christian Financial Consultants (NACFC) in 2020.

That same year, the Issachar Fund adopted the CANSLIM strategy—a disciplined, growth-focused approach designed to identify leading stocks with strong fundamentals and technical strength.

In 2025, Dexter closed the Fund to focus exclusively on managing SMAs, allowing for greater flexibility and the potential for stronger performance without the regulatory constraints of a mutual fund structure. He has also eliminated any conflicts of interest by investing all of his family’s money in the same three Models used for client portfolios.

With more than 35 years of investment experience, Dexter brings a seasoned, risk-aware perspective to navigating market cycles—seeking to capture upside in bull markets while protecting capital in bear markets.

Dexter is a follower of Jesus, a devoted husband of 31-plus years, and a committed family man who seeks to honor God by faithfully stewarding the relationships and resources entrusted to him.

Connor P. Lyons

Connor earned a Bachelor’s Marketing degree from LSU in 2023. His career began with managing individual investment accounts, focusing on the CANSLIM strategy, developed by William O’Neil. He specializes in identifying growth companies with strong and rapidly accelerating earnings and sales. While he typically takes a medium to long term approach —- holding positions for weeks, months, or even years —- Connor remains flexible, always ready to adjust his portfolio quickly when fundamental changes occur.

After investing, passions include health and fitness, golf, entertaining, and LSU sports.

Cade P. Lyons

Cade graduated in 2025 from ULL Summa Cum Laude in the Honors Program with a Major in Finance and a Minor in Investments and Portfolio Management. He has been actively trading and managing a portfolio with risk management as the main priority since November 2023. He uses William O’Neil’s CANSLIM system that combines fundamental and technical trading. He uses the fundamental earnings and sales as well as the story of growth stocks to identify which ones to focus on. He then uses technical analysis of stock charts to find optimal risk to reward opportunities to maximize profits and minimize losses. Primarily, he holds stocks for days to weeks and sometimes months. The system he has for trading relies heavily on the general market direction which can impact the probability of success. Consistently monitoring growth stocks will tell him when he should be getting more or less invested which is the key to his success.

Outside of his financial pursuits, Cade enjoys golf and spending time with friends, family, and his dog, Murphy.