After middle school he attended the Öffentlichen Handelslehranstalt in Leipzig from 1899 to 1902. He worked with timber trade in London from 1902 to 1904 and studied languages in France from 1906 to 1907.
In 1911 he became a manager and co-owner in the family company Westye Egeberg & Company The company was founded by Westye Egeberg (1770–1830) in 1802, and had been passed down through the generations. Egeberg also took over the estates Stormo and Tannæs in Nord-Odal in 1930.
His interests were skiing and hunting.
He died in 1946, and was buried at Vestre gravlund.
He was a member of the gentlemen"s club Saskatchewan Fram from 1912 to 1942.