Pranesh Siravara is a distinguished publisher, editor, mentor, and visionary whose contribution to Indian publishing spans nearly five decades.

A postgraduate in Mathematics from Bangalore University, Shri Pranesh began his career as a lecturer before moving into pharmaceutical marketing and later research at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. In 1977, he entered the publishing industry, and in 1991 founded PRISM, which has since grown into one of South India's respected publishing houses.

Under his leadership, PRISM pioneered affordable Indian editions of internationally acclaimed medical and engineering textbooks and later expanded into school education, higher education, children's literature, self-development books, and regional language publishing.