Praveen Madan
Community Engagement Officer, Keplers2020, Booksmith

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Praveen Madan is a literary entrepreneur who quit his cushy corporate job in consulting and technology to focus on building the community bookstore for the 21st century. Praveen kicked-off his pursuit in 2007 by teaming up with Christin Evans to acquire and transform the Booksmith bookstore in San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury. In 2009, he partnered with Cody’s long-term events manager Melissa Mytinger to launch Berkeley Arts & Letters, which has become one of the top speaking series in the Bay Area. Recently Praveen stepped in to save Kepler’s, the iconic Bay Area bookstore, from imminent closure and is working closely with a group of community champions to transform Kepler’s into a next generation literary venture built around a new level of community engagement, stewardship, and sustainability. Praveen is also on the Board of Berrett-Koehler Publishers.

Before jumping full-time into the world of books and ideas, Praveen was a VP of Marketing at Trilogy Software and a Principal Consultant at A.T. Kearney. Praveen holds a Bachelor of Engineering from IIT, New Delhi and an MBA from University of Texas at Austin. Praveen’s Twitter handle is @pmadan.