Justin Read

{{Short description|English businessman}}

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Justin Richard Read (born May 1961){{cite web|title=Justin Richard READ|url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/WdfyJ0UPOAVCr_TeD7-pEDN5WK8/appointments|website=Companies House|accessdate=17 January 2018}} is an English businessman particularly associated with the financial management of construction and property-related companies.

Read studied modern history at the University of Oxford, graduating in 1983, and has an MBA from INSEAD (1990).

Read worked for businesses including Euro Disney, Bankers Trust and Hanson plc (during 13 years at Hanson he served as deputy FD, MD of Continental Europe, head of risk management and group treasurer), and has been a director of companies including:{{cite web|title=Board of directors|url=http://www.ibstockplc.com/about-us/board-of-directors|website=Ibstock plc|accessdate=17 January 2018}}

• Hanson plc (October 1993 – May 2003){{cite news|last1=Singh|first1=Rachel|title=New CFO for property business Segro|url=https://www.accountancyage.com/aa/news/2071748/cfo-property-business-segro|accessdate=17 January 2018|work=Accountancy Age|date=18 May 2011}}
• Speedy Hire (finance director, April 2008 – August 2011){{cite news|title=Speedy Hire names Justin Read as financial director|url=http://www.lse.co.uk/FinanceNews.asp?ArticleCode=kxbmwy12diw6w0l&ArticleHeadline=Speedy_Hire_names_Justin_Read_as_financial_director_from_April_1|accessdate=17 January 2018|work=Finance and Stock Market News|date=10 March 2008}}
• Segro plc (finance director, August 2011 – December 2016){{cite news|last1=Unsted|first1=Sam|title=SEGRO Finance Director Justin Read To Retire Later In 2016|url=http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/news/AN_1460529891682437200/segro-finance-director-justin-read-to-retire-later-in-2016.aspx|accessdate=17 January 2018|work=Morningstar|agency=Alliance News|date=14 April 2016}}
• Ibstock plc (non-executive director, appointed January 2017){{cite news|title=BRIEF-Ibstock names Segro finance director Justin Read to board|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSFWN1EG0P3|accessdate=17 January 2018|work=Reuters|date=21 December 2016}}
• Grainger plc (non-executive director, appointed February 2017){{cite news|last1=Ford|first1=Coreena|title=Former CEO of Barratt Developments named as new Grainger Plc chairman|url=http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/business/business-news/former-ceo-barratt-developments-named-12405423|accessdate=17 January 2018|work=Newcastle Chronicle|date=4 January 2017}}

In December 2017 he was appointed as a non-executive director to succeed one-time Hanson colleague Andrew Dougal as chair of the audit committee of Carillion,{{cite news|last1=Price|first1=David|title=Carillion appoints new non-executive director|url=https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/companies/contractors/carillion/carillion-appoints-new-non-executive-director/10025834.article|accessdate=17 January 2018|work=Construction News|date=1 December 2017}} six weeks before it went into liquidation.{{cite news |title=Carillion to go into liquidation |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42687032 |access-date=15 January 2018 |work=BBC News |date=15 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180121002240/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42687032 |archive-date=21 January 2018 |url-status=live}}