Billington Holdings Plc announced that Mark Smith, its current Chief Operating Officer, will become the company's Chief Executive Officer with effect from 1 January 2015, being the date of retirement of current CEO, Steve Fareham. Mark Smith joined Billington on 29 May 2014 as a member of the Board and Group Chief Operating Officer. He was previously London Operations Director of one of the structural steelwork specialists.

Before that, for a period of 26 years he was employed by D. A. Green Steel and Cladding and was a Board Director.