Joseph Taylor Sorenson is the founder and CEO of Endeavor Capital Group, a Utah-based investment company which focuses on real estate investments and development projects; energy technology, enterprises, and exploration; and technology, health, and wellness. He has served as a board member of the Sorenson Legacy Foundation for more than 15 years, where he has helped support a wide range of philanthropic and humanitarian endeavors at the local, national, and international level.
Joe has extensive experience in residential and commercial real estate development and management, including the planning and construction oversight of the 120-acre Sorenson Research Park in Salt Lake City. He was a director for The Sorenson Group and helped develop Rosecrest, a 2,200-acre masterplanned community in Herriman, Utah. He is also a partner in Sorenson Group Holdings, an investment fund targeting real estate and distressed commercial loan portfolios.
Joe has played a vital leadership role in other Sorenson companies, including serving as president of the healthcare research company Sorex Medical and leading the development of cosmetic and nutritional products for Sorenco Laboratories. Joe is an Eagle Scout and served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Brisbane, Australia. He graduated from LDS Business College in accounting in 1981 and is the father of five children.
Kathleen Rasmussen Sorenson is a Utah-based philanthropist, humanitarian, mother, and grandmother. She currently serves as a board member of the Sorenson Legacy Foundation, which provides support for a wide range of endeavors, including childhood education enhancement in the public schools, specifically those that utilize the arts; arts education training programs at several Utah universities; STEM funding for disadvantaged or abused children and women; and funding for several major artistic non-profit institutions. She is also a board member of THRIVEGulu, which assists communities in Northern Uganda healing from the traumatic events of war, sexual enslavement, and extreme poverty. She also serves on the President’s Leadership Council at Brigham Young University (BYU), and has served on the BYU 12th team, working with the women’s athletics department.
Kathleen has raised five talented and gracious children, and is now the grandmother of several grandchildren. She is an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, where she has served women and young women in her community for more than 30 years. She was born and raised in Rexburg, Idaho, and earned her associate’s degree from Rick’s College in Art and Clothing textiles.