Sir Martin Read CBE FIET (BA Camb) DPhil

Sir Martin Read (1971) CBE, MA (Cantab), D.Phil (Oxon), FIET is a former chairman of Wincanton plc, Laird plc, the Low Carbon Contracts Company, the Electricity Settlements Company, VFS Global and the Remuneration Consultants Group. He was chief executive of international IT services company Logica from 1993 to 2007.

Sir Martin has served as a non-executive director on the boards of Lloyd’s, Invensys, Aegis Group, British Airways, Siemens Holdings, Boots and ASDA. He has been a senior adviser to private equity firms Candover and Actis and to Indian technology companies HCL and Zensar. He was awarded the Gold Medal of the Chartered Management Institute in 2007.

Martin led UK Government reviews on back office operations and IT across the public sector (2008/2009) and management information (2012). He was a member of the Coalition Government’s Efficiency and Reform Board and served as chairman of the Government’s Senior Salaries Review Body from 2015 to 2022.

Sir Martin is a former chair of the University of Cambridge Library Advisory Committee, vice-chair of the Council of Southampton University and member of the Council of Shakespeare’s Globe.  He served as a non-executive director of the Portsmouth Housing Association and trustee of its associated charity the Southern Focus Trust.  He was a trustee of homelessness charity Shelter and of the Winchester Science Centre and served on the board of the Council for Universities and Business. Martin holds an Honorary Doctorate in Technology from Loughborough University.