Four top executives were fired from WWE on Friday morning following the launch of TKO Group Holdings earlier this week.
As we previously reported here on eWn, WWE has begun firing employees following the WWE-UFC merger and Endeavor’s acquisition of the company.
WWE fired these four top executives earlier today:
Amanda Bloom, WWE’s Director, Enterprise Master Data and Governance
Catherine Newman, WWE’s Executive Vice President and Head of Marketing
Jamie Horowitz, WWE’s Executive Vice President of Development & Digital
Andy Levine, WWE’s Vice President of International & Platform Strategy
Additionally, it is said that at least 40-50 other people have been terminated as well and the cuts continue this afternoon.
In a LinkedIn post, Bloom commented on her unfortunate WWE exit. She wrote,
“A day I’m not sure I thought would ever come: I am among those affected by WWE’s layoffs today, and am updating my profile to #opentowork.
I have been at WWE almost 8 years, more than twice as long as I’ve been at any other company, and by any measure my tenure has been an enormous success. Over that time I’ve had the opportunity to:
* Design and implement an enterprise data model for an organization with robust but extremely siloed data accumulated over several years
* Work with SMEs across the organization to create master records and map the siloed data to those records
* Partner with data technology and analytics to make master and mapped data available in the data warehouse for automated, scalable reporting
* Participate in the design and deployment of a custom-built master data management platform with multiple system integrations
* Redesign our content model to align with industry standards and facilitate intuitive search and navigation on our OTT platform
* Manage the migration of our content library metadata to Peacock in time for our debut there in 2021
* Work on redesigning our MDM using a COTS solution and instituting more stringent data validation rules
* Learn and use a plethora of new apps and programming languages
* Work with some of the most talented, collaborative people it has ever been my pleasure to know, some of whom are also now on the market and you should snap them up ASAP
Above all I can say that I fostered a data-centric mindset among people who had been trained to make do with subpar data, who now take pains to create, maintain and share data that meets the high standards we implemented. The best a data professional can hope for is that the level of data quality won’t decrease in their absence, and I am extremely optimistic in that regard.
Now I’m off to find my next challenge. Maybe you know where it is. #KevinandSamiforever”
