Wheelhouse Entertainment Names Courtney White As President, Glenn Hugill As Chief Creative Officer

Wheelhouse Entertainment is making some promotions.

The company, which was founded by Pawn Stars creator Brent Montgomery in 2018, has promoted Courtney White and Glenn Hugill.

White, who joined the company in 2022 with the launch of her label Butternut, has been named President of Wheelhouse Entertainment.

Hugill, who joined in 2023 to head up its UK operations, has been named chief content officer and President of Wheelhouse Studios, the company’s new international content hub.

Former Food Network President White, who will continue to run Butternut, will now add oversight of all Wheelhouse U.S production labels including flagship Spoke Studios, new True Crime prodco Twist and Wheelhouse DNA, the company’s digital and audio division. During her tenure, she has produced series such as 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 and is working with Spoke on A&E’s reboot of Duck Dynasty and other shows.

Hugill, meanwhile, will continue to be based in London and will oversee development and production of global formats. He has recently created and sold series such as Million Dollar Secret, Got to Get Out and Last Bite Hotel. 

Montgomery said, “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.”

White added, “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. 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.”

“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,” said Hugill.