Kelly Holman is an assistant managing editor at Investment Dealer’s Digest where he writes about private equity and leveraged finance.

Prior to joining IDD in 2007, he reported on leveraged buyout transactions, private equity fundraising activity, corporate auctions, the middle market and credit markets as a senior writer for The Deal. During his seven and a half years of service at The Deal, Holman wrote daily news and feature stories for a variety of Deal publications, including the Daily Deal, The Deal magazine’s special reports, Auction Block and Corporate Dealmaker.

Before joining The Deal in 2000, Holman was a reporter for PRWeek magazine where he reported on financial services PR and investor relation activities, as well as international PR developments. He also assisted with Haymarket Media Group’s U.S. launch of the public relations trade magazine.

Previous to PRWeek, Holman wrote about private equity for Private Equity Week, Buyouts and served as a contributor to IDD in the late 1990’s.

A Colorado transplant, Holman has called New York home for more than a decade. He received his B.A. from the University of Colorado at Denver.