Nuha Siddiqui

CEO & Co-founder, erthos

Nuha Siddiqui
CEO & Co-founder, erthos
erthos

Nuha is the CEO & co-founder of erthos, a start-up striving to make plant-powered plastics the new normal. She founded erthos while still completing her Business & Environmental Economics degree at the University of Toronto (Rotman). As a passionate student entrepreneur, she actively contributed to the growth of the young leaders in Canada. Under her leadership, Enactus U of T, a student-run social entrepreneurship organization, grew from 7 to 70 members and her efforts were recognized by HSBC with the 2017 Woman Leader of Tomorrow Award. When her peers headed off to full-time jobs after graduation, she decided to go full-speed with erthos, scaling the company to a team of 20, raising over $7.3M and launching global manufacturing pilots to tackle the issue worldwide. The rapid expansion of erthos as one of Canada’s fastest growing cleantech companies, was recently recognized by Rotman, naming her one of the youngest Leaders to Watch!