Nicholas Jonathan Read (born 1964) is a British businessman, and the CEO Vodafone Group.
He earned a degree in accounting and finance from Manchester Polytechnic (now Manchester Metropolitan University) in 1986.[1] He is a Certified Management Accountant.[1]
Vodafone Group plc is a British multinational telecommunications company headquartered in London and with its registered office in Newbury, Berkshire.[2] It is the world's 2nd-largest mobile telecommunications company measured by both subscribers and 2013 revenues (in each case behind China Mobile), and had 419.4 million subscribers as of January 2014.[3][4]
Vodafone owns and operates networks in 21 countries and has partner networks in over 40 additional countries.[5] Its Vodafone Global Enterprise division provides telecommunications and IT services to corporate clients in over 65 countries.
Vodafone has a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. It had a market capitalisation of approximately £89.1 billion as of 6 July 2012, the third-largest of any company listed on the London Stock Exchange.[6] It has a secondary listing on NASDAQ.
