Justin Richard Read (born May 1961) 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 , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

, graduating in 1983, and has an MBA from INSEAD (1990). Read worked for businesses including

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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: *Hanson plc (October 1993-May 2003) * Speedy Hire (finance director, April 2008-August 2011) * Segro plc (finance director, August 2011-December 2016) *

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(non-executive director, appointed January 2017) *

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(non-executive director, appointed February 2017) On December 2017 he was appointed as a non-executive director to succeed one-time Hanson colleague

Andrew Dougal Andrew James Harrower Dougal (born September 1951) is a British businessman particularly associated with the financial management of construction and property-related companies. Dougal worked with Hanson plc from 1986 in a range of general and fi ...

as chair of the audit committee of

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, six weeks before it went into liquidation.

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