---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-047051"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BWXT"
cik: "0001486957"
company_name: "BWX Technologies, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-05-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-21T23:28:00.672002+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# BWXT CFO LeMasters transitions to special advisor; Fitzgerald appointed interim CFO

## Summary
- Robb LeMasters stepped down as CFO effective May 12, 2025; will serve as Special Advisor to CEO through March 2, 2026 under transition agreement.
- Transition agreement provides salary of $494,795 through separation date and cash retention bonus of $105,205; no 2025 or 2026 incentive plan participation.
- Michael T. Fitzgerald appointed Interim SVP and CFO; previously VP, Finance and CAO since 2021; background at MorganFranklin and Deloitte.
- Fitzgerald receives 27% base salary increase, annual non-equity incentive target of 55% of base, and 100% increase in long-term equity target for 2026.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-047051
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BWXT
- cik: 0001486957
- company_name: BWX Technologies, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-05-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1486957/000110465925047051/0001104659-25-047051-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1486957/000110465925047051/tm2514756d1_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Robb A. LeMasters changed role as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at BWX Technologies, Inc..
  - Action: stepped down
  - Role: Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On May 12, 2025, BWX Technologies, Inc. (“BWXT” or the “Company”) announced that Robb A. LeMasters, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”), has stepped down as CFO.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1486957/000110465925047051/0001104659-25-047051-index.htm
- Executive change
  Michael T. Fitzgerald was appointed as Interim Senior Vice President and CFO at BWX Technologies, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Interim Senior Vice President and CFO
  source text: On May 9, 2025, the Company’s Board of Directors (“Board”) unanimously appointed Michael T. Fitzgerald to succeed Mr. LeMasters as the Company’s Interim Senior Vice President and CFO, effective May 12, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1486957/000110465925047051/0001104659-25-047051-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.