Nicholas Jonathan Read (born 29 September 1964)[1] is a British businessman who was the CEO of Vodafone Group plc from October 2018 to December 2022.

Read attended Manchester Metropolitan University,[2] where he earned a BA (Hons) degree in Accounting and Finance in 1986.

In this role he became a board member of numerous Vodafone subsidiaries, joint ventures and minority positions.

[9][10] Read also joined the board of Booking Holdings Inc as a non-executive director in 2018 and member of the audit committee.

[14] EXA has a fibre network spanning EMEA, across the Atlantic, and on the east coast of the United States, providing connectivity to hyperscalers, telecom operators, governments and large enterprises.