Vincent Kennedy McMahon is the co-founder of WWE, the world's largest professional wrestling promotion. He is the current Executive Chairman of the promotion's parent company TKO Group Holdings. McMahon has appeared on-screen for WWE since 1969, initially as a personable play-by-play commentator. In 1997, he adopted the character of Mr. McMahon, portrayed as an irascible, villainous, swaggering tyrant who obsessed over maintaining control of his wrestling company.