Praveen Madan
Panelist | CEO, Kepler’s Books and Berrett-Koehler Publishers
SESSION 3C | Breaking the Rules: Innovative and Equitable Business Models in Publishing
Praveen Madan (he/him) is a nationally recognized leader in reinventing bookselling and building literary communities. As CEO of Kepler’s Books since 2012, Praveen has been leading a long-term initiative to transform Kepler’s into a Next-Generation Community Bookstore. In 2021, he co-convened the Reimagining Bookstores movement with a mission to strengthen communities, deepen literacy, and pay living wages to people working in bookstores. In January 2024, Praveen was appointed as the CEO and Publisher of Berrett-Koehler Publishers. He holds an engineering degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin. Before moving to the book industry, he spent a decade working at Kearney, the global management consulting firm.