She's been involved in a lot of successful projects in different positions so from a numbers POV her involvement likely seemed like a good bet when just looking at the data. Someone will get sacked for not looking deeper at her content and doing due diligence though when giving her carte blanche.

I dunno if you remember the threads when this was announced, at the time loads of people were predicting this kind of outcome but they became downvote central as everything negative was accused of homophobia, racism etc.