(Telecompaper) Vodafone Group has announced that Group Chief Financial Officer, Andy Halford, plans to leave the company at end-March 2014 after the conclusion of Vodafone's deal with Verizon Communications. The Board has decided to appoint Nick Read as Group Chief Financial Officer-designate, effective 01 January 2014. He will be appointed to the Vodafone Group Board on 01 April 2014. Read will be succeeded as CEO of the Africa, Middle East and Asia-Pacific (AMAP) region by Serpil Timuray on 01 January 2014. Both will report to Vodafone Group Chief Executive Vittorio Colao. Timuray has been CEO of Vodafone Turkey since 2009 and also sits on the Vodacom board.