BHP Billiton’s head of carbon steels division to leave

BHP Billiton said that Chris Lynch, currently group president of its Carbon Steel Materials business and an executive director, will retire from the board on Jun 30 and from the company early in the new financial year.

The company said it would make an announcement about his successor “in due course”. In the interim chief executive officer Chip Goodyear will assume the responsibilities of the role.