Wheelhouse Hires Five Senior Staff

Wheelhouse Entertainment CEO Brent Montgomery has appointed five people to the company’s senior leadership team, including new COO Julie Souza.

Souza, who joins Wheelhouse Entertainment from ESPN, will oversee the company’s operations and be involved in its corporate and strategic planning, and business development. Former Leftfield Entertainment executive Jerry DiMeglio will serve as Wheelhouse’s new CFO.

Kristin Welton was named senior VP of marketing, events and brand partnerships. The brand expert, who has worked for Nylon Media and Vogue, will be responsible for Wheelhouse Entertainment’s events strategy and brand integration to spearhead corporate partnerships. Joining the company from The Creative Studio and Banijay Entertainment is Fanny Baudry, who was named VP of business development on the West Coast. Leftfield Entertainment alum Michael Salerno, meanwhile, was tapped for the VP of business development on the East Coast position.

President of Wheelhouse Entertainment Sean Cohan and Chief Strategy Officer Ed Simpson were previously announced new appointments.

Montgomery said: “2018 was about building the foundation for Wheelhouse, which we envisioned as a major, talent-driven content company that could extend far beyond entertainment and media in order to propel new businesses and opportunities across platforms and industries. It’s an admittedly ambitious venture, and we have been so thrilled and humbled in the last year by the positive reception to it by all of our partners in the content, brand and talent worlds. Now, we are bolstering our own infrastructure with best in class executives—both inside and outside of media—and that represents a major milestone for Wheelhouse. The talent and expertise of Julie, Jerry, Kristin, Fanny, Mike, and of course Ed and Sean, will take us from the building-blocks stage to the building of real Wheelhouse businesses. We are all exhilarated for the ride and for our prospects in 2019.”