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Nathan Coe (businessman)

Australian businessman

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ69709496 ↗
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Nathan Coe is an Australian businessman, and the CEO of Auto Trader Group.

Coe earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Sydney.

Coe worked for PwC and Telstra, before joining Auto Trader in 2007. He joined the board of directors as chief operating officer (COO) in April 2017, and became chief financial officer (CFO) in July 2017.

In April 2019, it was announced that Coe would succeed Trevor Mather as CEO when he retires on 31 March 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nathan Coe (businessman)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.