Kelley Holmes

Kelley Holmes is VP and partner in WhatTheyThink that produces WhatTheyThink Magazine in the Printing News & Wide-Format & Signage versions and the websites WhatTheyThink.com, PrintingNews.com and InkjetInsight.com. She previously worked as Group Publisher for Southcomm Business Media and acquired the Printing News publications July 10, 2018 after working as part of the team for 25 years.  She was formerly an account executive for Quick Printing, Southern Graphics, & Artes Graficas under the ownership of Rob Schweiger, founder of Quick Printing (now Printing News) and owner of Coast Publishing, until it was acquired by Cygnus Business Media in 1995. Shortly after, she became Associate Publisher under the ownership of PTN Publishing and then, in 2004, was named Publisher of Quick Printing for Cygnus Business Media (now SouthComm) taking over the Printing Portfolio in 2009.  Kelley and her team have worked to integrate the Printing group brands, transitioning the publications into the Sign Market and building the business strategy of the current multi-media web portal. She also published the Graph Expo/ PRINT Show Daily for 7 years working with NPES and recently launched with her partners the @Event Media brand focusing on custom publishing.  

Kelley’s expertise lies in operations, sales and marketing along with her formal education at the University of Central Florida where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications. She is responsible for overseeing the business plans as it relates to circulation, editorial, sales, marketing, and production in order to maintain the market share in the industry. Kelley credits her understanding and familiarity with business to the excellent management teams at her former companies and to her father, Bud Holmes, who successfully ran Holmes Oil Company, a family-run gasoline & oil distributorship.

Kelley enjoys the oceans and rivers including hydroflying at 40 feet in the air, paddleboarding, speeding down the river on a waverunner, riding on the back of a Harley and docking on an island sharing time with her children and Yacht Captain Hunk of burning love.