John Leighfield

John Percival Leighfield CBE (born 1938) is a British IT industry businessman who established and led ISTEL in the 1980s and early 1990s. He was chairman of RM plc from 1993 until 2011.

In 2005, John Leighfield was appointed as a Director of Getmapping, a UK supplier of aerial photography, mapping products and data hosting solutions. He is also Chairman of Governors of the WMG Academy Trust (which operates two University technical colleges).