CAPSTONE PARTNERS, L.C.

A SOLUTIONS FOCUSED FINANCIAL SERVICES COMPANY

Chief Executive Officer - Gregory Bartko, Esq.


Capstone Partners' founder and chief executive, Gregory Bartko, has over 28 years experience practicing as an attorney, with special emphasis on corporate securities and regulatory law, both at the state and federal level. For several years, Mr. Bartko advised corporate clients seeking to tap the capital markets from the environment of national and international law firms. He is particularly experienced in advising clients on securities regulatory matters, structuring private and public offerings, preparing and filing offering documents and registration statements with state and federal securities regulators. Mr. Bartko prides himself in delivering hands-on corporate finance advice and services to business enterprises. He serves on a day-to-day basis as a principal of the firm and holds Series 7, 24 and 63 NASD licenses.

As chief executive officer of Capstone Partners, Mr. Bartko also practices corporate and securities law in Atlanta, Georgia as a sole practitioner and routinely represents corporations desiring to conduct public offerings and those that already are public companies trading their securities on one or more national securities exchanges. Prior to becoming an officer and principal in his own firm Mr. Bartko was a partner at Glass, McCullough, Sherrill & Harrold, in Atlanta, Georgia. From 1992 to 1996 Mr. Bartko was a partner at Graham & James' Raleigh, N.C. and Atlanta, Georgia. His primary responsibilities included all corporate, securities, mergers, acquisitions, and joint venture activities at the firm. From 1989 to 1992 Mr. Bartko was a partner with Reynolds, Bryant, Patterson & Covington, P.A., and Raleigh, NC., a Research Triangle-based law firm with emphasis on securities and commercial law practice. Responsibilities there included representation of public and privately -held emerging growth companies as well as large North Carolina-based bank holding companies and performing similar duties as with current firm.


Financial Operations Principal - Glen E. Smith, Jr.


Mr. Smith is an experienced investment banking professional that has been associated with Capstone Partners, L.C. for over 10 years. During his tenure with Capstone, Mr. Smith has been chiefly responsible for the preparation, maintenance and reporting of the firm's financial information with FINRA and the Securities and Exchange Commission, as he serves as the firm's Financial Operations Principal ("FINOP"). Mr. Smith also periodically works on select investment banking projects undertaken by Capstone Partners and in so doing, is adept at providing a compliment of financial advisory, analytical and diligence expertise useful not only to the firm's clients, but enabling Capstone Partners to meet its obligations to conduct substantial due diligence regarding financial or securities transactions the firm is engaged to participate in.

Mr. Smith has been a registered representative and in the financial services industry for most of his business career. He is fully licensed with FINRA holding his Series 7, 24 and 28 licenses and qualifies to elect to become a Series 79 investment banking representative with Capstone when the firm makes its election on behalf of all of its registered representatives. Mr. Smith periodically serves as a corporate officer or director of emerging growth companies that have migrated in their stage of development to require the in-house services of a controller or chief financial officer. Mr. Smith serves in these roles on a project-by-project basis and his services are provided independent of his relationship with Capstone Partners, L.C.