Ian Michael Lawson
Non-Executive Chair / Independent Director
Mark Smith
Chief Executive Officer
Trevor Michael Taylor
Chief Operating Officer
Dave Jones
Chief Financial Officer
Olivier Alexander Johannes Aebi
Non-Executive Director
Stephen John Wardell
Non-Executive Director / Senior Independent Director
Sharon Daly
Non-Executive Director / Independent Director
Ian Michael Lawson
Non-Executive Chair / Independent Director
- Appointed: 01/10/2018
- Fellow of FRICS & FCIOB
- Nationality: British
Ian is a fellow of both The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS) and the Chartered Institute of Building (FCIOB) and has a wide range of skills and experience from working within the construction industry for more than 35 years.
Ian is also Chair of the Nomination Committee.
Ian’s previous experience includes being a main Board Director of a tier-1 Principal Contractor where he enjoyed a 13-year career and subsequently spent four years as Chief Executive Officer for a prominent Steelwork Contractor.
Ian is also Non-Executive Chairman of E E Smith Contracts Limited.
Mark Smith
Chief Executive Officer
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- Appointed: 01/01/2015
- Chief Executive Officer
- Nationality: British
Joined Billington Holdings Plc as Chief Operation Officer on 2 June 2014. Appointed as Chief Executive on the retirement of Steve Fareham, who became a Non-Executive Director.
An in depth knowledge of construction industry for over 25 years driving for growth and profit in competitive markets.
Trevor Michael Taylor
Chief Operating Officer
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- Appointed: 01/10/2025
- Chartered Accountant
- Nationality: British
Trevor is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (ICAEW) and joined Billington in 2008 as Financial Controller from Allotts Chartered Accountants where he specialised in Construction and Financial Services.
Dave Jones
Chief Financial Officer
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- Appointed: 01/10/2025
- Chartered Certified Accountant
- Nationality: British
Dave is a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants having trained with Grant Thornton, qualifying in 2009. He specialised in the construction and manufacturing sectors before moving into industry, where he held finance roles with DLA Piper and G4S. Dave joined Billington in 2019 as Group Controller and subsequently served as Finance Director for the Group’s companies prior to be appointed CFO in October 2025.
Olivier Alexander Johannes Aebi
Non-Executive Director
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- Appointed: 27/08/2026
- Nationality: Swiss
Olivier has over 25 years’ experience of holding leadership positions primarily within international engineering and consulting engineering entities. He has extensive experience in the buildings, energy, transport infrastructure and construction engineering sectors, with a focus on sustainability, energy efficiency, hydropower and renewable energy.
He is CEO of Gruner AG, a leading consulting engineering and design company, based in Switzerland with global operations, offering a range of services to private and public clients in the Buildings, Industrial, infrastructure and energy sectors.
He is a representative of, and a member of, the Foundation Council of Gutenga Stiftung Lichtenstein Foundation, which holds 2,586,866 ordinary shares in the Company, representing approximately 19.4% of the Company’s issued share capital.
Stephen John Wardell
Non-Executive Director / Senior Independent Director
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- Appointed: 14/01/2019
- Chartered Accountant (1988)
- Nationality: British
Stephen is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (ICAEW), having qualified in 1988. He retired from KPMG in 2018 having been a partner for nearly 20 years, having held a number of management roles in the firm and was most recently a Senior Audit Partner working with FTSE 100 and 250 boards in an audit, advisory and relationship management capacity.
Throughout his career, Stephen has specialised in the construction and contracting sectors and was a member of the ICAEW Construction Sector Working Group back in 2014.
He is Chair of the Audit Committee for Billington.
In additon, Stephen also attends the KPMG UK Audit Board.
Sharon Daly
Non-Executive Director / Independent Director
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- Independent Non-Executive Director
- Appointed 02/02/2026
- Degree in Marketing (Lancaster University): MBA (with distinction)
- Nationality: British
Sharon has over 25 years’ experience within various industries, with a focus on commercial operations. She was Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer of Venture Life Group Plc, an international consumer healthcare business quoted on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange.
Sharon currently holds Independent Non-Executive roles with three AIM quoted companies: BRCK Group Plc, Warpaint London plc and Gear4music (Holdings) Plc.
She has extensive Remuneration, Audit and Nomination Committee experience and serves on the Audit and Remuneration Committees of all three entities. She also serves on the Nominations Committee and is Remuneration Chair at BRCK Group Plc, a building materials supplier within the construction industry.
Sharon is Chair of the Billington Remuneration Committee and a member of the Audit and Risk and the Nomination Committee.
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