Terren Peizer

Terren Peizer

Terren S. Peizer, chronicled by the LA Times as a financial prodigy, and often called the "Zelig of Wall Street" is currently the Chairman of a Los Angeles-based investment company, Crede Capital Group (CCG), formerly Socius Capital Group. Since its inception in June 2009 to December 2011, CCG has provided companies with capital commitments and funding in excess of $600 million. Peizer’s Crede Capital Group often invests in companies and then works with the companies to build a bigger business and company. In the third quarter of 2011, after investing $15 million into a portfolio company, Crede Capital then orchestrated a Joint Venture (JV) with The People's Republic of China's Communist Youth League (China Youth Goyor Technology (Beijing) Co., LTD.). China Youth League ("CYL") is a youth movement of The People's Republic of China that plays a vital role in the development of China.

Communist Youth League of China (CYL) has over 83 million young members between the ages of 14 and 28, the majority of which are typically well-educated and influential. The JV will provide a location based search, advertising, and commerce platform to China's 230 million smartphone users. The platform will include additional functionality, such as local news, video messaging, gaming, e-books, and online novels, social networking services, and e-wallet solutions. Most recently, Peizer's Crede entity completed a $40 million investment in Xcite Energy Ltd. (XEL: LSE) at GBP.95. Within a week of Xcite's public announcement of Peizer's investment, the company's equity traded as high as GBP 1.88, providing an immediate windfall to Xcite's Shareholders, and those investors who piggy-backed on Peizer's investment. Peizer's Crede and affiliates have agreed to invest an additional $90 million in Xcite Energy Ltd. in the coming year

Peizer also is the Founder, Control Shareholder, Chairman and CEO of Catasys, Inc. Through its OnTrak substance dependence treatment program, Catasys, Inc. provides an innovative, proprietary and integrated program that combines medical interventions, psychosocial therapy and care coaching into a comprehensive, long-term treatment solution. Catasys has contracts in place with Health Plan of Nevada, Coventry Health Care, Inc. (Kansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana), Fallon Community Health Plan of Massachusetts, and Ford Motor Company (catasyshealth.com). According to SEC filings, the company has a pipeline in excess of 14 million managed care lives (sec.gov). These populations consist of Commercial, Medicare, Medicaid, and dual eligible plans.

Raised in Beachwood, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, Peizer has assisted companies by assembling management teams, Boards of Directors and Scientific Advisory Boards, formulating business and financial strategies, and investor relations; all towards the purpose of creating shareholder value. Mr. Peizer has a background in venture capital, investing, Mergers and Acquisitions, corporate finance, and previously held senior executive positions with the top investment banking firms Goldman Sachs, First Boston and Drexel Burnham Lambert. Mr. Peizer received his B.S.E. in Finance from The Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Peizer has been called "One of Wall Street’s top players" and has frequently noted the importance of his Midwestern family values in various interviews. Peizer has exhibited a humble and modest lifestyle consistent with his Midwestern upbringing.