Reza Jahangiri
Reza Jahangiri (born June 9, 1978) is an American entrepreneur. He is the CEO of American Advisors Group (AAG) and past co-chair of the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA). He was also senior publisher for "The Reverse Review" until it was sold to HousingWire in 2018. Education. Jahangiri graduated from the University of California, Irvine with a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics in 2000, and went on to obtain his Juris Doctor from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles in 2004. He graduated from Corona del Mar high school in Newport Beach, CA, in 1997 . Early career. Prior to his involvement in the reverse mortgage industry, Jahangiri was a founding partner of HeartSavers, a preventative medical imaging company that worked with Johns Hopkins Hospital on the early detection of heart disease and cancer. He was also responsible for launching Imaging Venture Group, a healthcare consulting company that supplied medical equipment to private medical practices. Career. In 2004, Jahangiri became founder and CEO of American Advisors Group (AAG), a reverse mortgage lending company based in Orange County, CA. He started AAG to help address the financial crisis of a growing 65-and-older population by utilizing  an underutilized asset, home equity. In 2010, AAG launched its Fred Thompson campaign, signing on the famous politician and actor as their national spokesperson. Thompson passed away on November 1, 2015, at the age of 73 from a recurrence of lymphoma. AAG announced in June 2016, Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning actor, Tom Selleck, as their new national spokesperson. In December 2021, Jahangiri was interviewed by the Orange County Business Journal when AAG was selected as a "Company That Cares.". In 2017, Jahangiri reported to "Forbes" that AAG had been profitable for seven consecutive years. Also in 2017, Jahangiri  was interviewed by the Orange County Register for an article profiling AAG's rise in the reverse mortgage industry. The following year, Jahangiri was interviewed by HousingWire about AAG's expansion into conventional and FHA refinance loans, as well as real estate services for the senior demographic. In 2018, Jahangiri received Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur Of The Year® Award in the financial services category in Orange County. <ref>