Darin Pastor  Darin Richard Pastor (born February 19, 1971) is an American businessman, entrepreneur and inventor. He is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Capstone Financial Group, Inc. His family owned the Pepsi-Cola Buffalo Bottling Corp. and the Buffalo Bison Hockey Club. Pastor has worked at the financial firms American Mortgage Affiliates, JPMorgan Chase & Co., and Prudential. He submitted a bid to acquire the NHL’s Phoenix Coyotes franchise in 2013. Pastor was born in Buffalo, New York to Sydney and Miriam (O'Mahony) Pastor, the eldest of two children. He is of Irish and Jewish descent and attended St. Andrews Episcopal Academy in Oceanside, New York. He has a younger sister and a half-brother. His paternal grandfather was a Jewish immigrant and entrepreneur, eventually securing the Buffalo Pepsi-Cola franchise in his 40s. Pastor's father and grandfather were both owners of Pepsi-Cola Buffalo Bottling Corporation, and held various other business interests, including a professional hockey team, trucking company, bottling plant, and a Miller Beer franchise located in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Pastor majored in psychology and sociology at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and worked full-time in the family's Pepsi-Cola business. He enrolled in executive management programs and earned certificates from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business. Pastor began his career working at the family-owned Pepsi-Cola Buffalo Bottling Corp, where he became a Division Manager and Owner. In 1996, after working at the plant for seven years, Pastor became the owner of American Mortgage Affiliates, opening seven retail financial center locations throughout New York state. Pastor sold American Mortgage Affiliates to his partner in 2004. Pastor worked at JPMorgan Chase & Co. for four years, where he was senior vice president and senior investment manager. In 2009 Pastor became Chase's top-selling senior investment manager in the nation. In 2010, Pastor left Chase to become territory sales manager for the greater Los Angeles area with Colonial Life & Accident Insurance Company, and then Managing Director at the Prudential Insurance Company of America. In 2011, Prudential ranked him as their No. 1 managing director in the nation, measured by year-over-year sales growth. In October 2012, Pastor and five financial advisors founded Capstone Affluent Strategies. Within a year of the company’s launch, Capstone's staff grew to sixty advisors. The firm's post-graduate tuition reimbursement and Financial Advisor Associates programs helped attract new advisors.