Dr. John J. McMullen, chairman of the board of John J. McMullen Associates, New York-based naval architectural, marine engineering, and consulting firm, recently announced the establishment of an office of the chief executive in which all corporate management responsibilities formerly exercised by the company's president and CEO will be vested.

The office of the chief executive will be composed of George R. Knight Jr., P. Thomas Diamant, and Richard W. Thorpe, all of whom are presently senior vice presidents of the company. Dr. McMullen stated that "The establishment of the new office provides an effective means of addressing the corporate management responsibility exercised by George A. Sawyer until his acceptance of the position of Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Shipbuilding and Logistics."