BWX Technologies said Monday it has appointed Robb LeMasters as senior vice president and chief strategy officer. He is scheduled to start work on July 13.
LeMasters, 42, was most since 2011 the managing director at hedge fund Blue Harbour Group, whose owner announced its closure in February. LeMasters since 2015 has served on BWXT’s Board of Directors — a position from which he resigned last week to take a full-time job that touches nearly all business units for the Lynchburg, Va.-based provider of nuclear naval fuel, reactor parts, and defense-uranium services.
In the newly created position, “LeMasters will be responsible for driving BWXT’s overall corporate strategy for growth in its various national security, clean energy, environmental remediation, nuclear medicine and space exploration markets,” the company said in a press release. “He will also oversee the company’s investor relations and mergers and acquisitions functions.”
Rex Geveden, president and chief executive officer of BWXT since 2017, said LeMasters has been “instrumental in helping our company unlock shareholder value through his role as a director of the corporation over the last half decade. His familiarity with our company and its strategic opportunities make him a perfect fit for this role.”
