Brent Montgomery‘s Wheelhouse Entertainment has promoted Courtney White to president and Glenn Hugill to chief creative officer of the company and president of Wheelhouse Studios.
In addition to continuing to run Butternut, White’s role will expand to include oversight of all Wheelhouse U.S production labels, including Spoke Studios, new true crime production company Twist and Wheelhouse DNA, the company’s digital and audio division. 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 will now be chief creative officer at Wheelhouse Entertainment and president of Wheelhouse Studios, the company’s new international content hub, in addition to his role heading up the company’s UK operations and serving as chief content officer, which he’s held since January 2023. Hugill will continue to be based out of the company’s London offices, overseeing creative development and production of global formats (under the Wheelhouse Studios banner), specifically “noisy competition series, gripping social experiments and high-octane game shows.”
Founded by CEO Montgomery and former partner Jimmy Kimmel in 2018, Wheelhouse has recently expanded its business with the launch of Twist, run by veteran television executive and producer Jane Latman, and a minority investment from private equity firm Alignment Growth last April.
Prior to launching lifestyle production venture Butternut with Wheelhouse in 2022, White served as president of Food Network and general manager of HGTV. Since joining Butternut, White has overseen series including Max and Food Network’s “Last Bite Hotel,” HGTV’s “Divided by Design,” Roku’s “Celebrity Family Food Battle” and Discovery ID’s “Bodies in the Water.” Across the larger Wheelhouse, White is working on Spoke Studios shows, including A&E’s “Duck Dynasty: The Revival,” Netflix’s “W.A.G.s to Riches” and “Million Dollar Secret,” and Hulu’s upcoming series “Got To Get Out.”
Since joining Wheelhouse, Hugill has created and sold some of the company’s highest-profile series including “Million Dollar Secret,” “Got to Get Out” and “Last Bite Hotel.”
“Our goal is to always blaze new trails and by fortifying our core business with the incredible leadership of Courtney and Glenn, who both in short order developed and executed our most exciting slate in company history, it will allow others of us to focus even further on other key priorities including sports, YouTube and the wider creator economy,” Montgomery said.
“I’ve been so fortunate to benefit from Wheelhouse’s bold ambition and total commitment to collaboration that inspires the very best in its creatives,” White said. “I’m incredibly excited to now deepen my contribution to the company and its immensely talented teams as we continue to forge new business paths, ignite groundbreaking partnerships and create hit content that leads the pop culture conversation.”
Hugill added: “Brent sold me on coming to Wheelhouse to help build out a team of trans-Atlantic creative Avengers and that’s exactly what we’re doing. We collaborate differently to share our superpowers across the entire group and it’s just thrilling to have the ability to plug into best-in-class business partners across the company – all experts in their genres. Meanwhile, the ability to now hatch our biggest and boldest global ideas out of the new international Wheelhouse Studios is a total homerun. Which is a baseball term, as I understand it.”