Wheelhouse promotes Courtney White to President, Glenn Hugill to CCO
Wheelhouse Entertainment from Brent Montgomery has promoted Courtney White to President and Glenn Hugill as Chief Creative Officer of the company and president of Wheelhouse Studios.
In addition to continuing to run butternut, the role of White will expand with supervision of all Wheelhouse US production labels, including Spoke Studios, New True Crime Production Company Twist and Wheelhouse DNA, the digital and audio distribution of the company. White will also help manage Wheelhouse’s Physical Production Partnerships, including those with chef David Chang’s Majordomo Media and NBA star Anthony Edwards’ Three Fifths Media.
Hugill now becomes Chief Creative Officer at Wheelhouse Entertainment and President of Wheelhouse Studios, the new international content shub of the company, in addition to his role leading the British activities of the company and serves as a Chief Content Officer, which he has held since January 2023. Hugill Will. Stay based on the offices of the company in London, which supervise the creative development and production of global formats (under the Wheelhouse Studios Banner), in particular “noisy competition series, grapping of social experiments and high-octane game shows.”
Founded by CEO Montgomery and former partner Jimmy Kimmel in 2018, Wheelhouse recently expanded his company with the launch of Twist, run by veteran television director and producer Jane Latman, and a minority investment of the alignment growth of the private Equity company in April.
Prior to the launch of Lifestyle Production Venture Butternut with Wheelhouse in 2022, White served as President of Food Network and General Manager of HGTV. Since he is a member of Butternut, White has supervised the series, including the ‘Last Bite Hotel’ by Max and Food Network, HGTV’s ‘Divided by Design’, Roku’s ‘Celebrity Family Food Battle’ and ‘Bodies in the Water’ of Discovery id. White works on the larger wheelhouse on Spoke Studios shows, including A & E’s “Duck Dynasty: The Revival”, “Wags to Riches” by Netflix and “Million Dollar Secret”, and Hulu’s upcoming “Go Get Out” series.
Since he came to Wheelhouse, Hugill has made and sold some of the best-profile series of the company, including “Million Dollar Secret”, “Go Get Out” and “Last Bite Hotel.”
“Our goal is to always use new paths and to strengthen our core activities with the incredible leadership of Courtney and Glenn, who have developed and implemented our most exciting slate in business history in both short order, it will be able to others capable of others Standing to concentrate even further on other important priorities, including Sport, YouTube and the wider maker -economy, “said Montgomery.
“I have been so happy to take advantage of Wheelhouse’s bold ambition and total dedication to cooperation that inspires the very best in his creatives,” said White. “I am incredibly enthusiastic to deepen my contribution to the company and his enormously talented teams while we continue to forge new business paths, ignite pioneering partnerships and create hit content that leads the pop culture conversation.”
Hugill added: “Brent has sold me to come to Wheelhouse to build a team of transatlantic creative Avengers and that is exactly what we do. We work together differently to share our super powers throughout the group and it is just exciting to have the opportunity to connect to the best business partners in the company-all experts in their genres. In the meantime, the possibility is to get our biggest and most convenient global ideas from the new International Wheelhouse Studios a total homerun. That is a baseball term, as I understand. ‘
