Mr.Ajoy Thipaiah has been elected as President of The United Planters Association of Southern India (UPASI) for the year 2025-26 at the Annual General Meeting of the Association held on 20th September 2025 at Kochi.
As a fourth generation coffee planter attached to the traditional coffee grower family, he joined the family owned and run plantations of Guddadamane and Kerehaklu Estates situated in Aldur of Chikkamagaluru District, Karnataka, after completing his under graduation at Christ College, Bangalore in the year 1983. He was actively involved in the Karnataka Planters Association (KPA) from the late eighties and had a long stint as its Executive Committee member, culminating in heading the Association as Chairman in the year 2008-09. He was also actively involved with the UPASI and KPA Sports Clubs and served as the President of both clubs.
Mr.Ajoy Thipaiah was nominated to the Coffee Board of India in the year 2009 and served a full term as a representative of Coffee growers from Karnataka State. He served in the UPASI Executive Committee during the year 2007-08 and 2008-09, and has been in the Committee since 2017-18. He served as the Chairman of the UPASI Coffee Committee for the period 2021-22 to 2023-24.
Mr.Abhishek Poddar of Matheson Bosanquet Enterprises Pvt Ltd has been elected as Vice President of UPASI for the year 2025-26.
