1248 Holdings (Bicknell Family Office)

1248 Holdings is a family-owned private investment company that manages the personal and philanthropic assets of the Bicknell family. Founded in 2006, it allocates evergreen capital to operating businesses, venture and private equity funds, and real estate, pursuing long-term partnership-oriented returns. The firm's wealth originates from entrepreneur O. Gene Bicknell's growth and sale of NPC International, the largest Pizza Hut franchisee in the United States.

The investment strategy of 1248 Holdings emphasizes direct investments in operating businesses, funds, late-stage venture, private equity, and real estate. The firm seeks partners who share a commitment to excellence and focuses on sectors such as technology, healthcare, consumer goods, energy, financial services, real estate, media, telecommunications, transportation, manufacturing, retail, education, agriculture, hospitality, and construction. The firm is open to first-time funds and has a history of supporting boutique and niche asset managers.

In 2018, Montage, an investment firm empowering the next generation of asset managers, was moved to the family office, 1248 Holdings. Montage brings together a diverse group of institutional investment managers, each offering a distinct approach to money management that reflects many decades of professional experience and proprietary investment strategies across global asset classes. The firm's organizational approach is to allow individual investment managers to retain their boutique approach, talent, and culture that have proven records of adding value to portfolios and meeting client objectives.