James Canafax, senior vice president and general counsel for BWX Technologies, will leave the company around Aug. 1, according to a recent regulatory filing.
The Harvard-schooled lawyer, who got his J.D. in 1996, has been with the company since 2001: nine years before it was spun off from McDermott International, according to his LinkedIn profile. He will leave BWX Technologies “on or about August 1, 2018,” according to an 8-K the company filed March 12 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Canafax’s would be the second high-profile departure at BWX Technologies this summer. Joseph Henry, president of the company’s flagship Nuclear Operations Group, is set to leave the Lynchburg, Va.-based company June 30.
It was not immediately clear who would succeed the retired Navy admiral at the helm of the Lynchburg, Va.-based company’s nuclear manufacturing and fuel-enrichment business. “We will announce [Henry’s] successor when those plans have been finalized,” a company spokesperson said by email Tuesday.
Henry has been has president of the Nuclear Operations Group since 2015. The group is the largest of BWX Technologies’ three U.S. business segments and accounted for some 75 percent of the company’s revenue in 2017.
