Ejnar Knudsen
CEO, AGR Partners

Ejnar is AGR’s founder and Chief Executive Officer and oversees the firm’s investment strategy. He serves on the boards of several AGR portfolio companies.
AGR Partners is a specialist food and agribusiness investor that invests control and non-control capital to grow industry leaders. AGR Partners provides strategic, flexible capital to facilitate late-stage growth, strategic acquisitions, and ownership transitions with patient capital that can invest over the long term. Since inception, AGR has invested over $900 million across 22 partner companies.
Prior to founding AGR, Ejnar served as executive vice president of Western Milling, a grain and feed milling company that grew from a single site in Goshen, CA to over $2 billion in sales and is now the largest animal feed company in the Western United States. He 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’s first job was on his family’s dairy farm.
He received his B.S. from Cornell University and is a CFA Charter holder.
AGR Partners is a specialist food and agribusiness investor that invests control and non-control capital to grow industry leaders. AGR Partners provides strategic, flexible capital to facilitate late-stage growth, strategic acquisitions, and ownership transitions with patient capital that can invest over the long term. Since inception, AGR has invested over $900 million across 22 partner companies.
Prior to founding AGR, Ejnar served as executive vice president of Western Milling, a grain and feed milling company that grew from a single site in Goshen, CA to over $2 billion in sales and is now the largest animal feed company in the Western United States. He 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’s first job was on his family’s dairy farm.
He received his B.S. from Cornell University and is a CFA Charter holder.
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