Nikhil Arora

Nikhil Arora

Nikhil Arora co-founded Back to the Roots in 2009 as a senior at UC Berkeley and gave up a potential career in consulting to become an urban mushroom farmer. He oversees product dev and marketing.

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/aroranikhil
Twitter: @nikhilarora
Member since March 17, 2014
  • About
Education
2009 UC Berkeley , BA
I am a(n):

Entrepreneur

Companies I've founded or co-founded:
Back to the Roots
Companies I work or worked for:
Back to the Roots
Achievements (products built, personal awards won):

Martha Stewart American Made Honoree
SF Business Times 40 Under 40
Inc. 30 Under 30
Forbes 30 Under 30
Business Week's Top 25 Social Entrepreneurs

If you're an entrepreneur or corporate innovator, why?

I want to change the world.

Full bio

Nikhil Arora co-founded Back to the Roots in 2009 as a senior at UC Berkeley and gave up a potential career in consulting to become an urban mushroom farmer. Nikhil oversees the marketing, product development, and operations half of the business, and with his co-founder, Alejandro Velez, has led the company to triple digit annual growth over four years.

Since co-founding BTTR, Nikhil has been named one of BusinessWeek’s Top 25 Entrepreneurs under 25, Top 25 Social Entrepreneurs in America, UCLA’s Opportunity Green Top 25 Green Company Leaders, 2010 Social Venture Network Social Innovation winners, and 2010 Hitachi Young Entrepreneur Winners. Nikhil is currently on the Board of Directors of the Sage Mentorship Project and Social Venture Network.

Nikhil graduated summa cum laude from the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business during which he spent 6 months in Africa creating a profitable recycling program for the University of Ghana.