AgAmerica is a nationwide agriculture lender with over $1BB in assets under management. As part of its corporate structure, AgAmerica (the manager) operates the first agriculture mortgage REIT (mREIT) in the U.S. providing a niche agriculture debt investment vehicle.
Brian Philpot
Brian Philpot is the President, Chief Executive Officer, and Principal Owner of AgAmerica, with headquarters located in Lakeland, FL. His background includes extensive experience in real estate investing, agriculture lending, real estate law, market analysis, and negotiation. AgAmerica developed from Brian’s long-time investment company, Land South Group. Founded in the late 1990s, Land South Group was an investment firm with a particular focus in timberland, agricultural, and conservation real estate across the southeastern U.S. Land South Group also made value investments in residential development, industrial real estate, manufactured housing, office properties, mitigation banks, broadcast towers, and distressed real estate debt.
Courtney Eelman
Courtney Eelman joined the AgAmerica Lending team in July 2017. She is the Co-President, Chief Strategy and Risk Officer and her focus is to align strategy, processes, people, technology and knowledge as AgAmerica manages risk throughout the lending process. Courtney holds more than 20 years of experience in agriculture lending. Since joining AgAmerica, Courtney has created efficiencies and processes that have led to improved loan volume with an overall increase of 150% since 2016. Courtney has established both the Credit and Servicing departments and was instrumental in obtaining Central Servicer status with one of the agriculture GSEs.
