Sam Shakir, president of Westinghouse Electric Company’s operating nuclear power plant services, has left the company, the company said in a press release Monday.
Shakir’s departure was effective immediately, the company said. He had been head of Westinghouse’s operating reactors division for about eight months but has “decided to pursue opportunities outside of the company,” according to the Monday press release.
Dan Sumner, currently Westinghouse’s executive vice president and chief financial officer, will take Shakir’s place.
Shakir joined Westinghouse in April 2021 as head of the company’s environmental services after a five-year stint as president and CEO of competing nuclear services company Orano USA.
During an interview with the Exchange Monitor at the 2022 Waste Management Symposium in Phoenix, Shakir expressed interest in building out Westinghouse’s environmental services division: getting the company involved with the asset-transfer model of nuclear power plant decommissioning or even spent fuel storage, although he said that the company should only “take a harder look” at that business if there was “public acceptance” for such a project.
In a LinkedIn post dated Saturday, Shakir suggested that his next role might be outside the industry.
“After two challenging and rewarding years at Westinghouse and a 30 year career in the nuclear energy industry, I am happy to announce that I am hanging it up to pursue other interests,” Shakir wrote. “It’s been a hell of journey [sic] and I am thrilled about what lies ahead.”
