Allan M. Holt of Washington, DC, is vice chair of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council and chair of the Strategic Advancement Committee. He is a senior partner and managing director of The Carlyle Group and most recently served as chairman of Carlyle’s US Buyout group, the firm’s largest investment fund. Mr. Holt has extensive private equity investment experience, serving in leadership roles within the US Buyout group for the last 30 years.
He is currently a member of the boards of directors of several Carlyle portfolio companies, including Veritas Technologies. Mr. Holt is the former chair of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, and he is a member of the Johns Hopkins University Wilmer Eye Institute Board of Governors. He is also a member of American University’s Investment Committee. Mr. Holt is a graduate of Rutgers University and received his MBA from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the son of Holocaust survivors.
March 6, 2024
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