As it continues to navigate new corporate waters in the wake of longtime CEO Vince McMahon’s scandal-shrouded retirement in July, WWE Corp.
has promoted two of its top executives.Paul Levesque, known as “Triple H” during his days in the ring, was upped to chief content officer and Frank A.
Riddick III is now president and chief financial officer.Levesque is married to Stephanie McMahon, who took over as the company’s interim Co-CEO along with Nick Khan after Vince McMahon’s departure.
The former CEO, who remains the company’s majority shareholder, was found to have made payments of millions of dollars to multiple women to silence their claims of sexual harassment and misconduct.WWE’s announcement of the promotions this morning, signaled earlier in an SEC filing, cited a 15% rise in viewership of Monday Night Raw on Levesque’s watch, along with double-digit growth in social media engagement.
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