Mike Frank is the CEO of UPL’s Global Crop Protection business. He joined UPL in January 2022 as President and Chief Operating Officer. He brings a depth of industry knowledge and expertise from almost 30 years in the global agricultural industry in a variety of strategic and leadership roles.

Mike began his career at Monsanto where he spent 25 years in sales, marketing, business strategy, and general manager roles, and between 2014 and 2017 he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer, leading Monsanto’s global commercial operations. In 2017, Mike moved to Nutrien, the world’s largest agriculture retail organization, where he served as Executive Vice President and CEO until 2021. At Nutrien, Mike oversaw a wide-ranging modernization of the company, focused on improving value for customers and supply chain execution, alongsidegeographic and digital expansion.

Mike is a passionate agriculture advocate, and is focussed on developing solutions to strengthen global food security whilst driving environmental and economic sustainability for farming communities and the industry at large. Mike is excited to draw on his extensive experience in driving growth, digitalisation, and customer-centric approaches as UPL looks to expand its collaboration, innovation, and farmer-focused product line with new projects, initiatives, and partnerships across the globe.

Ashish Dobhal is currently Global Sales Head, UPL Corp. Ashish has been part of UPL journey since last 17+ years, he has worked in different countries like Japan, China, Taiwan, Middle East, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh etc. He has taken many challenges upfront and has turned them into success consistently. He is seen as someone who takes up challenging assignments and delivers. With the help of our digital and fintech initiatives, he will be playing a pivotal role in more than doubling our business in India in a short time frame. In past Ashish was Head of UPL Agri Formulation business.

Christina Coen has joined UPL in 2022, as our Chief Marketing Officer. She joined UPL from Nalco Water, an Ecolab company, where she was Vice President and General Manager of their Institutional Division. At Ecolab, she led a team of 600+ associates to develop and execute specific go-to-market strategies for greater than $2B of market opportunity.

Christina comes with diverse leadership experiences in strategic marketing, commercial P&L leadership, alliancing, and general management roles. She spent the initial 15 years of her career with Dow AgroSciences where she held multiple roles including the Head of Global Licensing and leadership roles in Marketing. After Dow, she moved to FMC as the Marketing Head of North America where she was later promoted as the Commercial Head for the North America business. She has served on the Board of Directors for multiple Ag company startups and has volunteered her time as a Board Director for the Agricultural Retailers' Association.

Christina is passionate about leading and developing people, partnering with strategic customers and serving the agriculture community.

Christina is a Mechanical Engineering graduate from the Michigan State University and an MBA from the Northwood University.

John Fred is the Chief Legal Officer of UPL Corporation and is responsible for all legal matters in UPL’s global crop protection business. He joined UPL in April 2024.

John has more than 15 years of experience as a strategic legal advisor in the agricultural and life science industries, including broad experience with international legal issues and cross-border transactions. He previously held senior North American and global legal roles with Bayer’s Crop Science and Pharmaceutical divisions (including US Head of Law for Seeds and Traits and Head of Law for Global Strategic Pharmaceutical Marketing) and BASF’s Agricultural Products business before joining UPL. Prior to those roles, he served as a federal appellate clerk and practiced antitrust and competition law at a major international law firm in Washington, DC.