Kylemore Holdings is a private investment partnership of owner-operators.

Hugh Gibbons is the founder and Managing Partner of Kylemore Holdings, a private investment partnership based in Austin, Texas. Kylemore's holdings include Reading FC, the English football club, where Hugh is co-owner, and Klimt & Design, the creative company trusted by global brands, which he leads as CEO.

Before founding Kylemore, Hugh worked in TMT banking at Credit Suisse in San Francisco, and covered financial institutions at BNY in New York and London. He has completed over $50BN in transactions across technology, services and sports. He was named to Irish America's Wall Street 50. He serves on the advisory board working to bring Major League Baseball to Austin, and is active in the Chicago Booth Alumni Club of Austin.

Hugh is the founder of the Gibbons Samuel Beckett Creative Fellowship, in partnership with Trinity College Dublin. Each year the Fellowship opens Trinity's Beckett archive, the largest collection of the Nobel laureate's correspondence held by any research institution, to a working writer or artist, who creates an original work and presents it at public events in Dublin, Reading, and Paris.

He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, master's degrees in finance and international management from UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, and a law degree from Trinity College Dublin.

Patrick Rauh is a Partner at Kylemore Holdings, where he leads mergers and acquisitions for the firm and its portfolio companies, from sourcing through diligence, close, and integration.

Before Kylemore, Patrick founded Triple Clover Partners, an investor-backed search fund built to acquire and operate a single business. He also served as interim Chief Operating Officer of one of his investors' portfolio companies.

At Arnott Industries, Patrick relocated to the Netherlands to help lead the European business, setting strategy through board reporting, product pipeline prioritization, and competitive pricing. He then took over sales and operations planning end to end, from forecast through procurement, manufacturing, and fulfillment, rebuilding the process around data to clear an inventory and backorder problem the company's own growth had created.

Earlier, in restructuring at FTI Consulting, he served as interim director of financial planning and analysis at an elevator components manufacturer and interim treasurer of a $500 million auto parts distributor, and ran bankruptcy processes on the ground inside debtor companies.

He holds an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, where he was an Edward Tuck Scholar and an MBA Fellow of the Center for Private Equity and Venture Capital. As his fellowship project, he led Tuck's Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition efforts. He holds a bachelor's in finance from the University of Notre Dame, where he served as captain of the cheerleading team. He lives in Austin with his wife, Mary.

Michelle Pederson is an Operating Partner at Kylemore Holdings and Head of Design at Klimt & Design, the creative-first marketing agency Kylemore launched in 2023. She leads the company's work with some of the world's most recognized brands, helping them define who they are, tell their story and grow.

Under her leadership, Klimt & Design has grown from a design and storytelling studio into a full-service marketing partner, now working alongside the teams from Primer and Uplift, the paid media and content agencies Kylemore acquired on its behalf in 2025.

Before founding Klimt & Design, Michelle was a product designer at technology companies, including Fortune 500 companies, working both in-house and at agencies. She holds a BA in Design Media Arts from UCLA and is based in Los Angeles.

Patrick joined Kylemore as an analyst in 2025. He is responsible for analyzing new investment opportunities and optimizing operations across all portfolio companies. He has completed transactions in the sports and digital services sectors.

In Patrick's free time he enjoys playing golf and basketball, watching all sports, exploring Austin's food scene, and learning to play poker.

He is based in Austin, TX and received his B.S.B.A. in finance from the University of Florida.