Ejnar Knudsen, AGR Partners

AGR Partners has invested over $400 million of equity and subordinated debt in leading food and agribusiness companies since 2012. Ejnar is AGR’s co-founder and CEO and oversees the firm’s investment strategy. From 2009 to 2012, Ejnar was portfolio manager of Passport Capital’s Agriculture Fund. Prior to Passport Capital, Ejnar served as EVP of Western Milling, a grain and feed milling company that grew from a small California startup to over $1 billion in sales. Ejnar also spent 10 years with Rabobank, in its New York office, managing a loan portfolio and venture capital investments as well as providing corporate advisory services. Ejnar is a director of Opal Foods, Ridley (RIC.ASX), Green Plains (GPRE), Gowan Company, Vintage Wine Estates and Materra Farming. Ejnar received his B.S. from Cornell University and is a CFA charterholder. Ejnar lives in Davis, California with his wife and their four children.