James Engebretsen Biography and Net Worth

James R. Engebretsen is Independent Director of Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corp, since June 5, 2008. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of Farmer Mac since June 5, 2008 and serves as chairman of the Financial Risk Committee and as a member of the Corporate Governance Committee and the Enterprise Risk Committee. Mr. Engebretsen currently serves as a member of the board of directors for Agreed, a software company in Utah that he joined in 2019. He has served as an advisor to Epic Ventures since January 2014, and several startup companies such as Divvy and Emersion Learning since 2016 and Freshlime since 2018. He also served as an advisor to XIO Group from June 2016 to 2018 and The RBL Group from October 2016 until 2019. Mr. Engebretsen is the former Assistant Dean of the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University, where he served as Professor of Finance from 2004 until August 2014. He formerly served as the Managing Director of the Peery Institute of Financial Services at the Marriott School from 2004 to 2006. He joined the Marriott School with nearly fifteen years of work experience at Lehman Brothers, JP Morgan, and Goldman Sachs in New York and Philadelphia. Mr. Engebretsen left Goldman Sachs in 1995 to set up his own hedge fund, Associates Capital Management. He is a registered investment advisor and earned his Master of Business Administration and Bachelor of Science in Economics from Brigham Young University.