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, alongside geographic 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.

Andrew Markwick is the CFO of UPL Corporation. He joined UPL in January 2023 and is responsible for the global finance function at UPL Corporation.

Andrew joins us from IQVIA, a global provider of technology solutions and clinical research services for the life sciences industry, where he most recently served as CFO, R&D Solutions. In this role he was leading a team of ~500 finance professionals for IQVIA’s global Contract Research Organization (CRO) division which had ~$8 billion in annual revenue. Andrew was associated with IQVIA for over 10 years where he held various leadership roles in treasury, investor relations and business finance. Prior to IQVIA, he worked in the Actuarial, Facilities Management and Liquid and Gas sectors in FP&A, audit and controllership positions. Andrew is a Chartered Global Management Accountant (ACMA/ CGMA).

Andrew is a highly accomplished corporate executive with 20+ years of finance and accounting experience across global organizations. He comes with a track record of focused execution to drive business growth and deliver superior shareholder returns.

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.

Farokh Hilloo joined UPL in the year 1991 and has held several key leadership positions for UPL. His last assignment was Vice President - International Business and was in charge of Rest of the World which at that time accounted for 17% of the total global business.

In 2010, he took up the role of Global Sales Director and was responsible for sales and profitability of the entire business. He also played an active role in marketing, regulatory affairs, new product development and strategic sourcing.

He is currently the Chief Commercial Officer (CCO).

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.