Investment management professional Darin Pastor is the chairman and CEO of Capstone Financial Group. Providing oversight over Capstone’s investments, Darin Pastor was involved in its 2014 injection of $57 million into Twinlab Consolidation Corporation, a health and wellness company.

1. CAPSTONE’S $57
MILLION INVESTMENT
INTWINLAB
CONSOLIDATION
CORP.
Darin Pastor

2. Introduction
• Investment management professional Darin Pastor is the chairman
and CEO of Capstone FinancialGroup. Providing oversight over
Capstone’s investments, Darin Pastor was involved in its 2014
injection of $57 million intoTwinlabConsolidationCorporation, a
health and wellness company.
The investment inTwinlab was made through a private placement.
The two companies had already struck an agreement that allowed
Capstone to acquire shares inTwinlab’s common stock directly and
also through the exercise of warrants.Capstone’s investment of $57
million inTwinlab gave the firm a 38 percent ownership stake in the
nutritional supplements company.

3. Capstone
• Speaking on the date of the announcement,Twinlab’sCEOTom
Tolworthy expressed his firm’s commitment to building the premier
health and wellness franchise in the country. He stated that
Capstone’s capital injection would be used to meet operating cash
flow needs and to make acquisitions.As it stood, the health and
wellness industry was very fragmented, necessitating consolidation
for efficiency and long-term value creation.Capstone’s investment
was an endorsement ofTwinlab’s growth and expansion mission.